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Top 25 Scholarships for High School Sophomores in July 2022
By Will Geiger
Will Geiger is the co-founder of Scholarships360 and has a decade of experience in college admissions and financial aid. He is a former Senior Assistant Director of Admissions at Kenyon College where he personally reviewed 10,000 admissions applications and essays. Will also managed the Kenyon College merit scholarship program and served on the financial aid appeals committee. He has also worked as an Associate Director of College Counseling at a high school in New Haven, Connecticut.
Will earned his master’s in education from the University of Pennsylvania and received his undergraduate degree in history from Wake Forest University.
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Sophomore year of high school is very much a transition year for students. You are probably feeling more comfortable in school, but you are still a year away from having to worry about testing and the college admissions process. With this said, it is not too early to begin to think about paying for your college education. Luckily, there are some great scholarships for high school sophomores to apply for!
Jump ahead to:
- Top scholarships for 10th graders
- Tips for high school sophomores
- Upcoming scholarships
- Explore these other scholarship categories
Keep on reading to learn more about the top scholarships for sophomores including eligibility, amounts, and deadlines!
Top scholarships for 10th graders in 2022
Scholarships360 $1,000 No-Essay Scholarship
- Eligibility: Easy scholarship open to any student who creates a Scholarships360 account!
- Amount: $1,000
- Deadline: September 30, 2022
$2,000 Nitro College Scholarship – No Essay
- Eligibility: High school, college, community and graduate students
- Amount: $2,000
- Deadline: July 31, 2022
$2,000 “No Essay” College Scholarship
- Eligibility: High school and college students
- Amount: $2,000
- Deadline: July 31, 2022
$1,000 Cappex Easy College Money Scholarship
- Eligibility: High school students
- Amount: $1,000
- Deadline: July 31, 2022
$2,500 Christian Connector Scholarship
- Eligibility: Students must be a current high school freshman, sophomore, or junior interested in attending a Christian university or college.
- Amount: $2,500
- Deadline: July 31, 2022
$10,000 CollegeXpress Scholarship
- Eligibility: High School Freshman, Sophomores, or Juniors
- Amount: $10,000
- Deadline: May 1, 2023
CollegeXpress $1,000 Disney Giveaway
- Eligibility: Open to all high school students
- Amount: $500 Disney Gift Card and $500 Scholarship
- Deadline: July 31, 2022
“Be Bold” No-Essay Scholarship
- Eligibility: High school students, college students, community college students, and graduate students.
- Amount: $25,000
- Deadline: July 31, 2022
Tallo’s $1,000 “Launching Into Your Future” Scholarship
- Eligibility: High school and college students
- Amount: $1,000
- Deadline: July 15, 2022
$500 CollegeVine Scholarship
- Eligibility: High school students who are U.S. residents
- Amount: $500
- Deadline: Weekly
$10,000 ScholarshipPoints Scholarship Program
- Eligibility: Open to all high school students, college students, community college students, and graduate students.
- Amount: $10,000
- Deadline: July 31, 2022
$7,000 No Essay Smart Owl Scholarship
- Eligibility: Students who are at least 16 years old
- Amount: $7,000
- Deadline: July 29 2022
Annual Catholic College Scholarship
- Eligibility: Open to students who are a current high school freshman, sophomore, or junior interested in attending a Catholic university or college.
- Amount: $1,500
- Deadline: July 31, 2022
Annual Protestant Faith-Based College Scholarship
- Eligibility: Open to students who are a current high school freshman, sophomore, or junior interested in attending a Protestant university or college.
- Amount: $1,500
- Deadline: July 31, 2022
Delete Cyberbullying Scholarship
- Eligibility: High school seniors, college students, community college students, or graduate students who write an essay about cyberbullying
- Amount: $1,000
- Deadline: June 30, 2022
Altec Design Web Scholarship
- Eligibility: Students at any level who respond to the prompt: “How do you foresee the internet changing your chosen career in the next 20 years?”
- Amount: $750
- Deadline: July 15, 2022
Gen and Kelly Tanabe Scholarship
- Eligibility: All high school students, college students, graduate students, and adult learners
- Amount: $1,000
- Deadline: July 31, 2022
Voice of Democracy Audio-Essay Contest
- Eligibility: High school students in grades 9-12
- Amount: $1,000 to $30,000
- Deadline: October 31, 2022
Vegetarian Resource Group Scholarships
- Eligibility: Open to high school students who are vegetarians or vegans
- Amount: $10,000
- Deadline: February 20, 2023
One Young Earth Filmmakers Contest
- Eligibility: Open to both college and high school students who are no more than 25 years of age.
- Amount: $1,000
- Deadline: June 25, 2023
Denny’s Hungry for Education Scholarships
- Eligibility: All high school and college students with at least a 2.5 GPA who share their ideas to fight childhood hunger
- Amount: $1,000 to 3,000
- Deadline: Varies (most are due March, November, and December)
Other scholarships
Discover Student Loans Scholarship Award
- Eligibility: Residents of the United States (including D.C. and the U.S. Territories) who are 16+ years of age
- Amount: $5,000
- Deadline: January 31, 2023
Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
- Eligibility: Students ages 13 and up in grades 7 through 12
- Amount: $500 to $10,000
- Deadline: Not until late 2022/early 2023, but start creating now!
Stuck at Prom Scholarship Contest
- Eligibility: High school students who create prom outfits with duck tape
- Amount: $500 to $10,000
- Deadline: July 21, 2022
Apprentice Ecologist Initiative Youth Scholarship Program
- Eligibility: Students ages 13 to 21 who conduct an environmental stewardship project and submit an essay about it
- Amount: $1,750
- Deadline: December 31, 2022
Tips for high school sophomores
- The National Merit Scholarship Program is a scholarship that is open for high school juniors and is based on your PSAT score. Take your PSAT as a sophomore to prepare and put yourself in the best position for the National Merit Scholarship Program.
- Choose your junior year classes wisely. Junior year is an important year academically, so make sure that you take the most challenging classes you can handle.
- Try something new! Whether it is a new club, sport, or class, sophomore year is a great time to explore so that you can develop your passions!
- Make the most of your summer to learn something new and bolster your college applications!
- See where you stand on our high school checklist for college preparedness.
- Look for an internship to help make your scholarship and college applications much stronger.
- Try out our free scholarship search tool to receive custom-matched scholarship opportunities based on your demographics, interests, and more. If you make an account now, it will auto-update as you get closer to your college years and become eligible for different opportunities.
- It’s never too early to start studying for the ACT and SAT. Try to make a routine study habit and go bit-by-bit, so you won’t face as much work when the test approaches.
Upcoming scholarships
Air Force ROTC High School Scholarship
- Eligibility: High school students
- Amount: Full-tuition plus book, living, and travel expenses
- Opens: July 1, 2022
Breakthrough Junior Challenge Scholarship
- Eligibility: Students ages 13 to 18
- Amount: $250,000
JFK Profile in Courage Essay Contest
- Eligibility: United States high school students in grades nine through twelve attending public, private, parochial, or home schools
- Amount: 15 Awards range from $100 to $10,000
Kaplun Essay Contest
- Eligibility: Students who are in grades 7 through 12 who submit an essay about their Jewish faith
- Amount: $500 to $1,800
Ocean Awareness Contest
- Eligibility: Students ages 11 to 18 who create a work of art in their chosen genre, including visual art, film, music, poetry, prose, and interactive and multimedia
- Amount: Scholarships worth from $100 to $1,500
Princeton Prize in Race Relations
- Eligibility: Open to all high school students who are involved in an activity that promotes positive race relations.
- Amount: $1,000
- Opens: November 15, 2022
Selectblinds $1000 Scholarship
- Eligibility: High school, college, or university students with a minimum GPA of 2.5
- Amount: $1,000
Taco Bell Live Más Scholarship
- Eligibility: Open to students between the ages of 16 and 26 who submit a video entry about their life’s passion
- Amount: $5,000 to $25,000 per year
