Wyoming LDS Foundation Scholarship
Offered by Wyoming LDS Foundation
About this scholarship
The Wyoming LDS Foundation Scholarship assists students who combine postsecondary study in Wyoming with active participation in an LDS Institute of Religion. The foundation does not publish a standard dollar amount; awards are based on financial need and may be determined one semester at a time. Students can apply annually, and the semester structure accommodates circumstances such as returning from missionary service before a spring term. An applicant must be admitted to a Wyoming university, community college, or junior college and agree to enroll in and attend Institute classes while also regularly participating in church meetings and activities. The application process uses separate official online forms. Every applicant completes the general scholarship application, including a short personal essay, and sends an ecclesiastical endorsement to a bishop, branch president, or current mission president. Incoming first-year students also arrange a high-school counselor endorsement, while current college students upload a college transcript through the foundation's designated form. Applicants serving missions may have a parent or guardian complete most of the application, but the student must write the essay. The official scholarship page identifies May 15 as the next application deadline and advises students planning missionary service to apply in the spring immediately before they will attend college.
Eligibility
- Be admitted to a university, community college, or junior college in Wyoming
- Demonstrate financial need
- Agree to enroll in and attend classes at a Wyoming LDS Institute of Religion
- Agree to attend and participate regularly in church meetings and activities
- Agree to follow the standards of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Complete the Wyoming LDS Foundation general application and personal essay
- Arrange an ecclesiastical endorsement from a bishop, branch president, or current mission president
- If entering college, obtain a high-school counselor endorsement; if already in college, submit a college transcript