GENERAL CRITERIA
Eligibility for AREA scholarships is outlined in the AREA Scholarship Application Instructions and AREA Scholarship Application.
The completed AREA Scholarship Application with all requested information must be received by AREA via email or postmarked no later than noon CST March 31, 2024, the application deadline. Email the application and attachments to scholarships@aafesretired.org.
PERSONAL ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA:
The following eligibility criteria must be met on January 1, 2024:
Applicants must be permanent U.S. residents and be less than 21 years of age.
Applicants must be natural, legally adopted children or custodial stepchildren of active, retired or deceased Exchange U. S. payroll employees or military personnel assigned to the Exchange.
If an applicant’s sponsor is a Military retiree, the Military retiree must have retired while on assignment with the Exchange and must be an active member of AREA.
If the applicant’s sponsor is a deceased parent, the parent must have died while an active Exchange employee or a retired Exchange employee or military assignee.
One of the parents of the applicant must have had at least twelve consecutive months of Exchange employment, or in the case of military personnel, Exchange assignment. For a deceased parent, the twelve-month employment requirement must have been met at the time of death.
If applying on their own behalf, the applicant must have twelve consecutive months of Exchange U. S. Payroll employment.
If retired, the sponsor must be an active AREA member. An active member is one who is a member of the national AREA organization (not just a member of an AREA Chapter) and whose dues payments are current. AREA membership information.
STUDENT ACADEMIC CRITERIA:
Students must…
- Be in their senior year of high school and scheduled to graduate in calendar year 2024.
- Any of the following test Scores are required to qualify:
- An ACT score of at least 23, or
- A SAT score of at least 1,200 for the two-part test.
- If SAT/ACT scores are not required by the institution being applied to, please submit this exception information along with your high school grade point average. An average of a 3.33 (B+) on a 4.0 point scale or B+ on a 100-point scale (87-89) is required to qualify.
- Plan on attending an accredited college, university, community college/ technical school, or one of the U.S. military academies for undergraduate studies in calendar year 2024.
- Accreditation will be determined through the US Department of Education Database of Accredited Postsecondary Institutions and Programs (DAPIP), https://www.ed.gov/accreditation/search.aspx.