Students Submit Scholarship Applications For New Program Awards

(Salt Lake City, UT) — About 27-thousand students are participating in the state’s latest effort to provide scholarship funding. This week, officials say nearly 16-thousand applications on behalf of those students were submitted for consideration under guidelines for the Utah Fits All Scholarship. The application deadline was Monday. Utah lawmakers appropriated more than 82-million dollars over the last two years to kick off the program which launches this fall. Officials will give out ten thousand scholarships each valued at eight thousand dollars.