Applications for the 2025-26 academic year are due any time between Thursday, January 2, 2025 and Friday, January 31, 2025 at 5 p.m.
These are full-year awards. If you will be on campus only for the fall semester of the 2025-26 academic year, you are welcome to apply. You will be notified if you have received a scholarship by mid-March.
Regardless of how many scholarships you are applying for, you only need to complete “Part I: Personal and Academic Information” of the Online Application Form once.
You profile will automatically be saved when you select “continue” at the bottom of the screen, after completing Part I.
At this point, you will be directed to “Part II: Individual Scholarship Application.”
You must submit a separate essay for each scholarship for which you hope to be considered and should tailor your essays toward the scholarship in question.
You must explain how you meet the criteria and why you should be considered for the scholarship for which you are applying.
You can access the essay portion of the application as many times as you chose and will not be timed out. However, you cannot save your work and return to the essay later.
You should write your essay(s) in a word processing program and then copy and paste your work into the online form.
Per university guidelines, O’Neill uses FASFA information from the current academic year 2024–25 to determine eligibility for scholarships that list financial need as a criteria.
For more information on how FASFA is used to determine eligibility for need-based awards, visit Student Central.
The receipt of a scholarship may result in the reduction or repayment of need-based financial assistance previously awarded to the student by Indiana University.
In accordance with federal regulations, the Office of Student Financial Assistance is required to monitor whether a student's total financial assistance remains within their financial need-based eligibility.
Similar practices are followed with some institutional need-based grants. Whenever possible, self-help awards (loans and Federal Work-Study) are reduced before federal or institutional gift-aid.
