Alumni Legacy Scholarship

In 1997, the University of Michigan-Dearborn Alumni Society established the Alumni Legacy Scholarship.  The scholarship is appropriately named, as it will perpetuate the legacy of the University of Michigan-Dearborn tradition by providing scholarships to academically talented students with familial or other significant relationships to UM-Dearborn graduates (i.e. child, sibling, grandchild, spouse, stepchild, niece, nephew or cousin).

Since the 1998/99 academic year, the Alumni Legacy Scholarship has been able to assist in the funding of countless UM-Dearborn undergraduate student educations.
 

Scholarship Criteria

• Applicants must have a relationship to a graduate of the University of Michigan-Dearborn (i.e. you are a child, sibling, grandchild, spouse, stepchild, niece, nephew, or cousin).  This must be confirmed by the Office of Alumni Engagement before candidate is entered into the applicant pool.

• Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or eligible non-citizen.

• Applicants must be accepted into a degree program at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.

• Applicants must demonstrate sustained activity and/or achievements in academic, extracurricular, community and/or leadership activities.

• Applicants must be an incoming freshman with a minimum cumulative high school GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale

The 2023-24 Alumni Legacy Scholarship application process deadline was March 6, 2023 and all scholarship recipients selected were notified.

Scholarship application for the 2024-25 academic year will become available beginning in January with an anticipated submission deadline of early March 2024. All completed Alumni Legacy Scholarship applications and supporting documents must be received by the application deadline date.

All scholarship recipients selected to receive the scholarship will be notified by mid-April.