Fully funded

The Chicago Difference Scholarship

Illinois Institute of Technology, United States

Scholarship overview

A scholarship for first-year students with significant financial need from partner high schools in Chicago, with wraparound support services. Illinois Tech covers tuition, mandatory fees, room and board for four years (five for architecture) after the Student Aid Index, federal and state grants and other institutional scholarships.

Award Information

  • Minimum 3.0 GPA and admitted as a first-year student
  • U.S. citizen or permanent resident
  • Graduate from a high school in the city of Chicago
  • Significant financial need on the FAFSA and Pell Grant eligibility
  • First-generation college student
  • Eligible for federal work study; file the FAFSA yearly
  • 100 percent of tuition, mandatory fees, room and board for four years of full-time bachelor's study, after other aid
  • Advising, career coaching, housing, health and wellness, financial aid counselling

Priority deadline November 1 (Early Decision); regular February 1; recipients notified mid-April; accept by May 1.

  1. Apply to Illinois Tech via Early Decision for priority, or by February 1.
  2. Submit the FAFSA using code 001691.
  3. No separate scholarship application.

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