APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

You must complete the Application for First-time Applicants yourself, without assistance from others (e.g., parents or guidance counselors) or from artificial intelligence tools. Any applicant who receives such assistance will be disqualified. If you need clarification of the application instructions, please email us with your question(s).

Note: If you are a previous recipient of a Delmar Foundation Scholarship, please complete the Application for Previous Recipients

As a first-time applicant, you should:

1. Review the eligibility requirements to ensure that you are eligible to apply.

2. Register on this site. (You, not your parent or guardian, must register for you to be eligible to apply.) This will enable you to download an application and recommendation form, ensure that we know who is applying for a scholarship, and enable us to communicate with you when necessary. If you registered previously, you may log in with your existing User ID and password.
Note: Please do not use your high school email address because it will be inactivated when you graduate. Instead, use your personal email address
(e.g., Gmail) or one assigned by the school you will be attending next year.

3. Ask two people to complete recommendations for you. One recommendation must be from a teacher or guidance counselor, and the other from a member of the community (e.g., a mentor, minister/priest, someone you worked with on a community activity or who supervised you at work, a family friend, or a neighbor).

• Download the recommendation form. (You will have to log in to download the form.) Save it to your desktop and use the current version of Adobe Acrobat Reader to save information in the form. (Do not use Google Docs or a similar platform; it may alter the format and fillable fields in the file.)
• Fill in your name and email address on the recommendation form. (We will use your email address to notify you when we receive your recommendations.) The recommendation form is a fillable PDF, so you should fill in your name and email address electronically.
• Provide each of your recommenders a copy of the recommendation form with your name and email address filled in. Please give your recommenders the electronic version of the form (fillable PDF), so they can complete the form electronically.
• Ask your recommenders to submit their recommendations to the Delmar Foundation by April 30, 2025. (We do not accept recommendations from applicants.) Recommendations may be submitted via email to Recommendation@DelmarScholarships.org, faxed to 866-321-9986, or mailed to the address below, postmarked no later than April 30, 2025.

Delmar Foundation
3000 Lillian Avenue
Murrysville, PA 15668

4. Complete or obtain copies of documents and collect other information needed to apply, as follows:

• Download and complete the Application for First-Time Applicants (You will have to log in to download the form.) The application is a fillable PDF form, which you should complete electronically. Save it to your desktop and use Adobe Acrobat Reader to save information in the form. (Do not use Google Docs or a similar platform; it may alter the format and fillable fields in the file.)
  Note: You should keep a copy of your completed application in case we ask you to revise it.
• Obtain an official copy of your high school transcript.
• If you are currently enrolled (full-time or part-time) in a college, university, junior college, technical college, or trade school, obtain a copy of your official transcript. (If your transcript does not include information for the current semester, you may submit an unofficial transcript with your application. If you receive a scholarship, we will require that you submit an official transcript with your tuition bill.)
• Obtain copies of the following from the FAFSA Submission Summary that results from your completion of your Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA):

  - Eligibility Overview
  - FAFSA Form Answers (Please be sure to click both Expand All buttons so that your answers to all questions will be visible before you save the page as a PDF.)

Note: It can take from three days to three weeks for a FAFSA to be processed. For more information on the FAFSA process, go to Federal Student Aid.
• Obtain a copy of your Financial Aid Summary from the college, university, or other school you plan to attend or are currently attending. (If you are transferring to a different school, the FAS should be from the school to which you are transferring.) This Financial Aid Summary (FAS) must include a summary of:

  - Your cost of attendance for the upcoming school year
  - Your financial aid for the upcoming school year
  

If your FAS for the upcoming school year will not be available before the application deadline, you may submit your FAS for the current year, noting any changes you expect to occur in the upcoming year. (If you are selected for a scholarship, we will ask you to submit your FAS for the upcoming year before we finalize your award.)
• If you plan to live off-campus, obtain:

  - A copy of your signed lease or other proof of off-campus housing costs. If you will not be responsible for the full amount of the   rent, indicate what proportion of the total will be your responsibility
  - An estimate of your portion of utilities (e.g., electricity, gas, and water) if they are not included in your rent
  - An estimate of your food costs, including the cost of groceries and/or a meal plan, if you purchased one. If you did not
    purchase a meal plan, you can expect to pay about $2,950 for groceries during the school year.
  

In addition to a copy of your signed lease, please include documentation of your estimated costs for utilities and food with your cost of attendance information (above).
• Copy or take a picture of your current driver's license, voter registration card, or other government issued identification that shows your current address and can be used as your proof of residency in the Franklin Regional School District.
Note: Pictures must be saved in PDF format in order to upload them to this site.

5. Submit all documents listed above together and no later than 5:30 PM (EDT) on April 30, 2025. Documents submitted individually will not be accepted. You may submit your application package by:

• Uploading it to this site or
• Faxing it to 866-321-9986 or
• Mailing it, postmarked no later than April 30, 2025 to:

Delmar Foundation
3000 Lillian Avenue
Murrysville, PA 15668

6. When we receive your complete application package, we will notify you via email and email a "Supplemental Financial Information" form to your parent(s)/guardian(s). Your parent or guardian should complete the form and email it to ApplicantInfo@DelmarScholarships.org no later than May 6, 2025.

QUESTIONS

If you have questions about the Delmar Foundation Scholarship program, eligibility requirements, the application form, or other application documents, please visit our FAQ page. If you still have questions, please email us or call 866-321-7717.

The submission deadline for applications (including all supporting documents) is April 30, 2025.

Handwritten applications will not be accepted.