The College Now Traditional Scholarship is College Now Greater Cleveland's flagship renewable award for graduating seniors from the more than 90 middle and high schools it serves across Northeast Ohio. Eligibility requires attending a College Now-served high school, a minimum 2.5 cumulative weighted GPA, a minimum ACT composite of 18 (or combined SAT of 960), filing that year's FAFSA, and qualifying for the Federal Pell Grant. College Now reports distributing about $9 million a year across roughly 3,500 scholarship and adult-learner recipients combined, though it does not publish a fixed per-student amount for this specific award; awards renew as long as a student stays enrolled and meets academic standards. The current cycle's application has already closed; College Now's related scholarship applications typically run from mid-December through mid-March each year.
Eligibility
DemographicsMust graduate from a 'College Now-served' high school in Northeast Ohio (College Now's related Adult Learner program lists Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Mahoning, Medina, Portage, Stark, Summit, Trumbull, and Wayne counties as its service area); not open to students outside that service area regardless of Ohio residency generally.
Applying
College Now reports awarding about $9 million a year across roughly 3,500 combined scholarship and adult-learner recipients; no fixed per-student figure is published for the Traditional Scholarship specifically.