The nonprofit Dream.US aims to fill a gap in financial aid for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
“We encourage all eligible immigrant youth to apply before the upcoming application deadlines at the end of January. … During a time of uncertainty for many Dreamers, we will remain steadfast in our support of undocumented youth and their futures,” said Gaby Pacheco, the organization’s director of advocacy, communications, and development.
The Opportunity Scholarship provides up to $80,000 over four years to cover tuition, fees and on-campus housing and meals for a bachelor’s degree at five partner schools: Christian Brothers University in Tennessee; Delaware State University; Dominican University in Illinois; Eastern Connecticut State University; or Trinity Washington University in Washington, D.C.
Michael Earls, a spokesperson for TheDream.US, said the organization is looking for more applicants from Ohio because relatively few have applied so far. In Ohio, Dreamers are ineligible for in-state tuition at public universities. At Ohio State University, for example, they“We quickly realized there was a void for students who, even though they’d grown up in this country and graduated from our high schools, they lived in states where they didn’t get financial aid like their peers were getting,” Pacheco told The Dispatch.
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