Institute for Education Advancement's (IEA) Caroline D. Bradley Scholarship offers one of the only merit-based, need-blind high school scholarships to highly gifted students across the United States.

See the IEA web site for complete details. The following is a small portion of the complete information taken from the web site.

Scholars receive a four-year high school scholarship to an optimally matched high school program intended to meet their unique intellectual and personal needs, as well as receiving individualized support, educational advocacy, and a network of like-minded peers.

The Caroline D. Bradley Scholarship is a full four-year, merit-based high school scholarship. The Scholarship can be used nationally toward any high school or approved alternative educational program that best fits the Scholar’s individual intellectual, academic, and personal needs and goals. The Scholarship enables highly able middle school students to explore and access unlimited high school and early college opportunities that provide these young adults with the optimal educational match for their high school career.

Criteria

A Caroline D. Bradley Scholar is a young student who excels academically, displays a genuine quest for knowledge, thrives in the discovery process, is a leader among peers, and embraces the ideals of integrity, service, and honesty. CDB targets exceptionally gifted young people who seek a rigorous, diversified high school program but need assistance finding or attending the appropriate learning environment that will help them work towards and achieve their full potential. Through a highly selective, in-depth portfolio application and interview process, CDB annually identifies exceptional middle school students from across the country who best meet the following criteria:

• Currently in 7th grade
• Demonstrates exceptional academic ability and achievement
• Has scored in the 97th percentile or above – or scored as “Advanced” – in one or more of the major academic areas of school-administered, nationally-normed standardized test for the past two years
• Scores 20 or higher in either the Math or Reading component of the ACT or scores 500 or higher in either the Critical Reading or Math component of SAT Reasoning Test
• Strives for excellence and continually seeks more rigorous academic challenges
• Demonstrates leadership abilities
• Exhibits creative thinking
• Is extremely curious and has a thirst for knowledge
• Exhibits a passion for learning
• Is highly motivated
• Embraces the merits of integrity and honesty
• Demonstrates a high level of maturity and a strong sense of self
• Seeks an accelerated, diversified high school program
• Is a U.S. citizen who is going to attend a high school program based in the U.S.