AT&T Veterans Scholarships

AT&T Veterans Scholarship Application process for 2024. (Closed for 2024)

By applying to one of the following scholarships, you agree to provide proof of: veteran or child of veteran status (including dd214, birth certificate, etc), enrollment at a place of higher education for ‘24-‘25 school year, and any other required documentation for verifications purposes in the event you are chosen as a winner.

All applicants need to provide up to date contact information as part of the process, our inability to contact you in a timely manner will forfeit any award.

In addition, you consent that your essay and/or answers to scholarship prompts can be verified through software to be truly authentic, unique, and not written with the aid of an AI system or algorithm. We reserve the right to use software verification of authenticity.

2024 Theme: Veterans in Action

Veterans Scholarship

(Undergrad or Grad)

Prompt: How has your military service prepared you for continued service to your community and country? (Length required 1,000-1,500 words)

Children of Veterans Scholarship

(High School Graduates starting education for the first time fall 2024)

Prompt: What does it mean to be a child of a veteran? (500 words or less)

How to Apply:

Please send the email to:      (Closed for 2024)

Subject:                                          2024 AT&T Veterans Scholarship

The body of the email must contain the following:

  1. Name
  2. Email address where we can contact you during summer/fall 2024
  3. Phone Number
  4. Explicitly tell us which scholarship you are applying for
  5. School you will be enrolled in in 24-25 school year
    1. Explicitly state either “Undergrad” or “Grad” (post-grad if applicable).
    2. What year in school (freshman, sophomore, etc. / or 1st year Graduate / Post-Grad).
  6. Confirm Word count (how many words is your essay?)
    1. 500 words or less for “Children of Veterans” scholarship
    2. 1,000-1,500 words for “Veterans Scholarship”
  7. Essay in Doc or Docx format (attached, not in body of email). Do not provide PDF or any other format.

 

Deadline for entries is June 2, 2024.

No applications will be accepted past this date (11:59p 6/2/2024 Central Time).

 

Rules

  1. Must be an undergraduate or graduate student enrolled in a higher education institution.
  2. Entry is free and a student may only enter one time per year.
  3. The essay should be a minimum 1,000 words but no longer than 1,500 words in length, and must be in English – exception to this is the “Children of Veteran” scholarship which has a limit of 500 words or less
  4. Document should have 1” margins and be written in 12 Pt. Times New Roman, double-spaced formatting.
  5. No offensive, harassing, incendiary, or defaming content may be used. This includes but is not limited to recent cultural events that may cause panel members discomfort to grade and is decided at the discretion of AT&T Veteran’s Scholarship Committee Directors.

 

Methods of Judging

All eligible essays will be evaluated by a panel of AT&T Veteran members. The following criteria will be used:

 

  • Does the essay answer and address the topic prompt? (25 pts)
  • Originality (20 pts)
  • Grammar, Spelling, Errors (20 pts)
  • Creativity and depth of thought (20 pts)
  • Organization and Structure of essay (15 pts)

 

The panel will determine the top winners, based upon a scoring rubric, and will publish those winner names on its site, and social media pages, as it deems appropriate.

 

Terms and Conditions: By submitting an entry to Scholarship Contest, the entrant automatically agrees to be bound by these Terms and Conditions. Entrants attest that any entry submitted to the AT&T Veterans scholarship essay contest will be fully original and is one that has never been submitted, published anywhere else, or used to apply for any other scholarship(s). We reserve the right to subject every entry to a plagiarism-scan, in order to verify originality. Once an entry is submitted, entrant agrees that all ownership rights to that essay are transferred to AT&T Veterans and all copyright laws protect ownership by AT&T Veterans. Entrant understands and agrees that s/he may not reproduce, transfer, share, republish, or otherwise use or distribute the entry essay in any way, without express written permission. Entrant agrees that the organization may use his/her name in publishing the contest entrants and/or winners. AT&T Veterans shall protect all other personal information of every contestant and shall not provide personal information to any third party. Entrant’s personal information is used for the express purpose of verification and is deleted after award money is distributed.