Beauty Pageant College Scholarships
Find Opportunities for Pageant Winners and Participants
The scholarship pageants listed below; who have been working with young women for decades, rewarding them with millions of dollars in scholarships and giving back to communities nationwide are worth taking a second look at.
The examples below are just a sampling of the scholarship potential for anyone who enters these competitions.
Miss America Organization
It's the World's leading provider of scholarships to young women, providing more than 45 million dollars worth of scholarship assistance to more than 12,000 young women in one year alone. Almost all the contestants have either received or are in the process of earning undergraduate or graduate degrees, utilizing this non-profit organization's scholarship assistance to further their education.
AJM Scholarship Foundation
The AJM Scholarship Foundation, the organization behind America's Junior Miss, administers college scholarships to the competition's highest achievers. In the decades since the AJM Scholarship Foundation has been working with young women and providing scholarships, many of these women have gone on to attend Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and many other distinguished colleges and universities.
The good news is you don't have to be Miss America or Junior Miss to win a college scholarship. Just by participating in the pageants, you have an excellent chance of winning at least a partial scholarship. Every state has the Miss America Pageant and many states and regions have different scholarship pageants. To read more about the scholarship opportunities from the America's Junior Miss Pageant, log onto www.ajm.org.
School-Specific Scholarships
In addition to the cash scholarship funds the contestants can win, many colleges and universities have offered scholarships based on different criteria. For example, Huntington College in Montgomery, Alabama provides each state winner with full tuition renewable for four years and each state contestant a $700 scholarship renewable for four years. Keystone College in Pennsylvania awards state winners in the states of Connecticut, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia a $3,000 scholarship, renewable for four years. An extra award is set aside for the Pennsylvania state winner.
Miss America's Outstanding Teen
Provides scholarships to contestants in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands. Awards are different for different states and for different honors however there are plenty of them waiting to be won. For example, the state winners all receive a $1,000 scholastic award and for the contestants who take special honors and the crown, the scholarship awards are amazing with Miss America's Outstanding Teen winning $30,000 in scholarships. This pageant has awarded more than 125 million scholarship dollars in its 35 year history and continues to award nearly 5 million scholarship dollars annually. For more information on this stunning opportunity, see www.nationalteen.com.
Miss Teenage California Pageant
The California Scholarship Foundation, founded in 1979, recognizes and rewards the outstanding female youth of California by administering the Miss Teenage California Pageant. Miss Teenage California wins a $10,000 scholarship and thousands of other scholarship dollars go to runners up, finalists and those who win special awards. For more information about this scholarship opportunity visit www.missteenageca.com.
Other scholarships geared for women would also be of interest to pageant participants.
