Gretchen and Warren Backlund Scholarship

The Gretchen and Warren Backlund Scholarship is awarded to incoming freshmen students pursuing studies at Iowa State University.

Eligibility Criteria/ Scholarship Guidelines:
To be eligible, an applicant:
- Should be a fulltime incoming freshmen students pursuing studies at the university.
- Should  be a high school graduate of Westside, Millard West, or Millard North High School in Omaha, Nebraska
- Should maintain minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale
- Should demonstrate financial need 

How to Apply:
An applicant 
- Must sign in to the scholarship portal at https://iastate.academicworks.com/users/sign_in to complete a general scholarship application at Iowa State University.

Once these applications and results are submitted, the received application will be auto-matched to the qualifying scholarships. Qualifying is an intermediate step between scholarship application submission by the applicant and selecting scholarship finalists by the University.

Value
Scholarship grant is decided after the review of each application

Deadline
March

Validity
If student meets the criteria scholarship may be renewed for an additional three years