Criteria for eligibility
The criteria for eligibility as a Christina Hixson Opportunity Award recipient:
- Students must have faced challenges of personal and/or financial hardship.
- Students must be residents of Iowa.*
- Students must possess the potential to succeed.
- Students must demonstrate financial need as determined by filing the FAFSA.
- Students must be admissible to Iowa State University.
This scholarship is available to entering freshmen who wish to study any major offered at Iowa State University. Applications will be reviewed for eligibility in consultation with members of the Hixson Opportunity Awards Advisory Council. One hundred award recipients will be selected. Recipients will be announced by May 1.
* One award per county. The county corresponds to the student's residence at the time of high school completion, which may be different from the county in which the high school is located. If a county has no suitable applicants, an award will not be made for that county.
