Loren Gruber Scholarship for Literary Studies
Offered by Missouri Valley University
About this scholarship
Missouri Valley University's Loren Gruber Scholarship for Literary Studies is a $500 institutional award for an incoming undergraduate planning to pursue English literary studies on the university's Marshall, Missouri campus. The official eligibility threshold is a 3.0 high-school GPA plus an ACT score of at least 21 or an SAT Critical Reading and Math score of at least 976. The central application item is a 500-word essay about a favorite book, blog, poem, play, essay, or film. Applicants should explain how that work has influenced their goals before, during, and after college, then connect the Loren Gruber award directly to those plans. The essay must be saved as a PDF and emailed to admissions@moval.edu by midnight on May 15. Missouri Valley states that its academic scholarships are for full-time incoming undergraduates taking 12 to 18 hours on campus; online students are not eligible. Institutional aid cannot exceed cost of attendance and is generally not stackable with half-tuition, full-tuition, or varsity awards. The university's current page lists $500—not the higher amount reported by some scholarship directories.
Eligibility
- Be an incoming undergraduate student at Missouri Valley University
- Plan to study English with a literary-studies focus
- Enroll full time on the Marshall campus rather than in an online program
- Have at least a 3.0 high-school GPA
- Have an ACT score of at least 21 or SAT Critical Reading and Math score of at least 976
- Write the required 500-word response about an influential text and future goals
- Email the essay as a PDF to admissions@moval.edu by midnight on May 15, 2027