Joyce Ivy Foundation opens up scholarship opportunities

It’s that time of the year again – scholarship season. Seniors here at MHS, and all across the nation are simply overjoyed to be applying for scholarship after scholarship, hoping and praying that someone, anyone, will grant them the money they need to get to college. Fear not, freshman, sophomore, and junior girls; you too, can get in on the fun. The Joyce Ivy Foundation scholarship application is now live.

The Joyce Ivy Foundation is a scholarship program that supplies hard-working teen girls with scholarships to attend top-of-the-line summer programs at 11 different, mostly Ivy League schools: Barnard, Brown, Cornell, Emory, Harvard, John Hopkins, MIT, Smith, Stanford, Washington University in St. Louis and Yale. There is a program for just about everyone: everything from Bacteriology to Intro to Music Production has a program. This scholarship is open to current nineth, 10th, and 11th grade girls in the Midwest who are eager and willing to spend anywhere from a week to eight weeks away from home this summer.

MHS is currently home to two previous Joyce Ivy Summer Scholars, myself, and senior Michaela Foulkrod.

“The Joyce Ivy Foundation does a lot to help kids get ready for college and to understand how to apply and to take a little bit of that stress away,” Foulkrod said.

Foulkrod attended Barnard College in the summer of 2014 on a Joyce Ivy scholarship.

“It was really good to go and be able to see what college is going to be like and see what having to take care of myself is like. That has helped me a lot now, with thinking about what college next year will be like,” Foulkrod said of how her program has helped her.

“You can’t lose anything from applying. Do it; do your best, and have fun,” Foulkrod said.

If you wish to apply, the sooner the better. The deadline for the Joyce Ivy applications is March 1, but specific programs have differing deadlines. You can find the online application at joyceivyfoundation.org/apply/application.