Optimum is proud to offer the Future Leaders Student Scholarship Program to dependents of eligible employees as part of our ongoing commitment to education and development.
Optimum will award up to 40 scholarships of $2,000 to help students pay for costs associated with full-time undergraduate study at accredited colleges, universities or vocational/technical schools of choice. To qualify, applicants must be high school seniors or graduates, or currently pursuing post-secondary education.
The program is administered by Scholarship America®, the nation’s largest designer and manager of scholarships and other education support programs for corporations, foundations, associations, and individuals. Eligibility for individual programs is determined at the sole discretion of the sponsor, and eligible applications are reviewed by Scholarship America’s evaluation team.
Applicants to the Future Leaders Student Scholarship Program must meet all the following criteria:
*Dependent children are children who qualify for benefits provided by the company.
**Full-time employees are defined as working a minimum of 35 hours per week.
Award information:
Notification
Applicants will be notified in June. Not all applicants to the program will be selected as recipients.
Payment of Scholarships
Scholarship America processes scholarship payments on behalf of Optimum. Payment is made in one installment in early August.
Scholarship recipients are selected on the basis of:
Financial need is not considered.
Scholarship America is solely responsible for selecting award recipients. In no instance does any officer or employee of Optimum and its subsidiaries play a part in the selection. All applicants agree to accept the decision as final.
As part of your application, you must upload the following document:
NOTE: If you are providing SAT or ACT test scores, and those scores are not listed on your high school transcript, you will need to upload a copy of your test score report(s) separately. If you are uploading a college transcript, those scores are not required.
Your application is not complete unless all required documents are submitted electronically.