Indiana University's scholarship system is designed to present you with opportunities that can lead you to more award dollars. You'll even be able to apply for multiple scholarships at once. We'll show you some recommendations, and then it's up to you to submit the required materials for the selection committee to make a decision.
We'll match you with scholarships
You can apply for scholarships for the next fall term by using the IU Scholarship Application beginning on September 1st.
How to apply for IU Indianapolis scholarships
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IU Indianapolis scholarship 101 with Eric title screen.
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Eric Starts off with an introduction
“Hi my name is Eric I'm a health science major here at IU Indy and I'm from Columbus Indiana.”
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“A fun fact about me is that I like to play Pickleball I am not any good but I still do enjoy the sport”
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Eric moves on from introduction into how to access to the IU scholarship portal
“and today I'll will be running you through the IU scholarship portal”
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“so first off to apply for any of our scholarships here at IU Indy you are going to have to be an admitted student”
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“and you also need to set up your one.iu.edu account”
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Google home page was shown.
“once you have all that stuff set up then you need to go into any web browser and type in one.iu.edu”
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One.IU homepage was shown.
“once you're there and once you have signed in you are going to type into the search bar scholarships”
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IU Scholarship Tile shown
“once you see the IU scholarships logo you can select it and this will prompt you to log in with your CAS credentials”
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Scholarship Homepage was shown
“once you've signed in this will pop up with the page of the first section of the General application”
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Scholarship Homepage continued to be shown
“The first part of the General application is going to be a slight introduction basically confirming what year you're applying for and just making sure that you know that if you don't want to submit it right now you can always press save and you can always return to it and continue it later”
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General Application was shown.
“so the first section of the application is going to be asking questions about the FAFSA”
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“which campus you're going to be on your expected graduation date and your intended enrollment”
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Screenshot of specific scholarship application question show.
“With intended enrollment if you want to be considered a full-time student this is going to be need this is going to need to be 12 credit hours or more per semester or eight credits credit hours um if you are thinking about your graduate program”
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“ to be considered a halftime student you are going to need to do six credit hours or more when it comes to your undergraduate and four for your graduate”
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“so I will say the next couple sections of the General application are going to be fairly repetitive in how you answer but this is also going to be there to help um see what scholarships are eligible to you based on your past experience and to kind of help you um start thinking about what things you you would want to apply for”
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Specific part of the application is shown
“this first section is going to be about volunteer and community commity service”
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Specific part of application is still shown
“um if you worked at a food bank in high school or you volunteered at an animal shelter or anything like that this would be a great section to add that stuff in”
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“ you're going to need to select the type of community service or volunteer service that you've done the years that you were involved and then if you have more than one you can always add another.”
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Leadership Experience section of application shown.
“this next part is going to be about leadership”
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“If you were a coach in high school or if you had a job where you were a manager or if you were um the president of like the Student Society or anything like that is going to be a great place to put that stuff in. ”
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Eric scrolls down to the Extracurricular Activity Experience section.
“So this next part is going to be about extracurricular activities and your experience.”
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“With that so if you played a sport in high school, or if you were part of band, or theater this would be a great spot for that.”
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Eric scrolls down to the Affiliations section.
“This next section is going to be about affiliations if you were a part of a club or a organization in high school or any other campus.”
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“You can actually add that stuff in here and this does include if you were a spouse or a dependent of the person who was a part of an organization.”
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Eric scrolls down to the Honors and Awards section.
“The next part is going to be about honors and rewards. If you received any grants or rewards from high school or you were in a competition and you won, this would be a great place to put that stuff.”
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Eric scrolls down to the Work Experience section.
“In this last section that's going to be fairly repetitive is going to be about your work experience.”
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“If you had a job in high school or if you had a job on a different campus or if you were a tutor or anything like that this would be a great place to put that in.”
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“One um key fact that you should add into this as well is if you are planning to work during school.”
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Eric scrolls down to the Scholarship Essay section.
“The next part of the General application is going to be the scholarship essay.”
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“Um a couple things to include and to keep in mind is that it should be no more than a thousand words and it should also include your high school or college involvement, your field of study and your career goals.”
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“Then you should detail any hardships or circumstances that receiving a scholarship will help you out. ”
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Eric scrolls down to the Supplemental Questions section.
“So the last part is going to be some supplemental questions basically asking if your parents were alumni here, or your military status, if you want to study abroad, your gender identity etc.”
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Eric clicks the Finish and Submit button.
“So the last thing that you need to do is sign and submit. If you don't want to submit it at the moment, that's perfectly fine. You just need to press save and then you can always continue it later. ”
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Eric, currently in the My Applications tab scrolls to the very top of the tab then proceeds to click on the Opportunities tab that is to the right of the My Applications tab.
“You have just finished the journal application. What do you do from here if you actually scroll back to the top of that page you're going to see a little drop down box that says opportunities.”
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“If you press that and select all, then it will bring you up to the scholarship page.”
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“There are over 35 different pages of different scholarships that you can actually apply for and it kind of will be a little bit overwhelming whenever you're just like coming through it, but to narrow down your search a little bit you can always go to the search bar and type in a specific scholarship or you can press the filter button and this will help you narrow down your search. ”
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“So when it comes to my personal experience with scholarships I do have a scholarship called the Jags Excellence award which is a scholarship based on high school academics or my past experience.”
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“This is a great scholarship um but I will say that is kind of where that ends and that's actually one of my biggest regrets from college is that I didn't put in the effort to actually go out and um find different scholarships that I was actually eligible for.”
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“So if you want a tip of advice just go do the General Application and then uh look for as many scholarships as you can just because this is a great way to pay for college without having to pay back later and lastly if you do have any questions about anything feel free to contact us and we can always answer those questions for you thank you.”
The first step to being considered for any of these programs is to submit an application for admission to IU Indianapolis. Once you have applied for admission, you'll be eligible to create your IU computing account. You can then apply for scholarship opportunities using our general application:
- Access the scholarship task on One.IU.
- Click on the scholarships task and log in using your IU computing account. If you have not yet created your IU computing account, you can learn more on the IU Knowledge Base. Creating this account requires you to input your 10-digit University ID. If you do not know your University ID, you can look it up using the Self-Service University ID Lookup, or email apply@iu.edu.
- If you are new to the Indiana University Scholarship System, be sure to complete the General Application to see a list of recommended scholarship opportunities.
- Once you submit the General Application, you can also search for scholarships by clicking on Ours under Opportunities in the gray navigation bar along the top and searching with the keyword IU Indianapolis or the specific name of a scholarship.