Jose Marti Scholarship Challenge Grant Fund

Florida Department of Education

This scholarship provides financial assistance to eligible students of Hispanic origin who will attend Florida public or eligible private institutions. Applicants for undergraduate study must apply during their senior year of high school. Graduate students may apply, however priority for the scholarship is given to graduating high school seniors. To qualify for this scholarship, applicants must be Florida residents and US citizens or eligible non-citizens; not owe a repayment or be in default under any state or federal grant, loan, or scholarship program unless satisfactory arrangements to repay have been made; be of Spanish culture, born in or having a natural parent who was born in either Mexico, or a Hispanic country of the Caribbean, Central or South America, regardless of race; have earned, by the end of the seventh semester, a minimum unweighted cumulative 3.0 GPA in high school for an undergraduate scholarship, or an institutional cumulative 3.0 GPA for undergraduate college work if applying for a graduate level scholarship; and enroll as degree-seeking students at an eligible postsecondary institution and enroll each academic term for a minimum of 12 credit hours for undergraduate study or 9 credit hours for graduate study.