University Honors Program Etscorn Scholarship

Etscorn Scholarship applications are now open and will close at 4 p.m. on Feb. 24, 2025. 

To be eligible for this scholarship, a student must:

  • have completed at least 12 credit hours at the University of Louisville by the end of the fall semester
  • be currently enrolled full- or part-time at the University of Louisville
  • be planning to enroll full-time for at least the Fall 2025 semester
  • be pursuing their first undergraduate degree
  • have a minimum cumulative G.P.A. of 3.35 (including U of L courses and any transfer work)
  • not hold another full-tuition scholarship (e.g. full-tuition Trustees, Vogt, Porter, Grawemeyer, McConnell, MLK scholarship or other full-tuition award)

Out of state students are encouraged to apply. Please note that Etscorn Scholarships are competitively renewable (not automatically renewable), and will require an application to be submitted each year.

Scholarship awards generally range from $1,000 - $2,500 and will be based on the strength of the student's:

  1. Transcript
  2. Personal Statement*
  3. Honors Curricular and Extracurricular Record of Involvement (e.g. courses taken, involvement in Honors outside of courses)
  4. Two Letters of Recommendation**

Applications should be submitted via e-mail. Please submit an unofficial transcript (saved as a PDF) that shows all work (including Fall 2024 grades), a summary of your curricular, extracurricular, and/or co-curricular involvement in Honors (saved as a PDF or MS Word file), and a personal statement (PDF or MS Word) to both honors@louisville.edu and luke.buckman@louisville.edu. An application consists of each of the four components listed above. Any application missing one or more of the above four components is considered incomplete and will not be reviewed by the selection committee.

*Your personal statement, not to exceed two typed pages, should address educational goals, the extent of involvement in the University Honors Program, campus and community activities, and, in particular, the ways in which the award of a scholarship will enhance your academic experience.

**Letters of Recommendation are to be submitted by the recommender (not the student) through our web-form. Students are responsible for sending their recommenders a link to the form. If a recommender would prefer not to use the online form they can call 502-852-6293 for more options.