Atkinson Scholarship Applications are due on February 1, 2019. The program is open to graduating seniors at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School and the dependents of Town of Sudbury and School Department employees who attend other high schools. The program offers eligible students a maximum of $5,000 per year in scholarship assistance for approved post-secondary or […]
Atkinson Scholarship
Congrats Atkinson Scholars!
The Sudbury Foundation recently awarded Atkinson Scholarships to 15 outstanding high school seniors, honoring them and their families at a breakfast reception held at the Grange Hall in May. The Atkinson Scholarship Program was established in 1996 to recognize local students with financial need, academic promise and the capacity to make a meaningful contribution to […]
Comparing Financial Aid Offers
Financial aid offers are not all alike. Here’s some good advice from a college senior and intern at the U.S. Department of Education’s Federal Student Aid office on how to read and compare aid packages before you decide which school to attend. It’s worth a look: 4 Steps to Understanding and Comparing Financial Aid.
Off to College: A Momentous Change for Mom & Dad
Beverly Beckham’s wonderful 2006 Boston Globe essay on sending a child off to college remains true and heartfelt today. The Globe reprints it around this time every year. If you’re a parent who has just dropped your Freshman off at school, pull out your hankie. It’s worth reading: http://bit.ly/2bsy8St
Generosity, Atkinson-style
We enjoyed reading a recent thread on the “I Grew Up in Sudbury” Facebook page acknowledging the generosity of Herbert & Esther Atkinson who started the Sudbury Foundation in 1952. Those posting commented on how that generosity shaped the lives of many, particularly through the college loan and Atkinson Scholarship Program. While we at the Foundation think […]
The 2015 Atkinson Breakfast
We were delighted to host our newest Atkinson recipients, their families and invited guests at our annual recognition breakfast on Friday, May 1, 2015. The reception, held in our Community Meeting Room at the Grange Hall, recognized the following students: Willow Beccia, Matthew Bowler, Andrew Carlson, Haley Colpitts, Iyla Driggs, Carly Eiduson, Celia Feldberg, Rick Gangopadhyay, […]
ATKINSON DEADLINE EXTENDED
DUE TO MONDAY’S STORM, THE ATKINSON SCHOLARSHIP DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3. APPLICATIONS MUST EITHER BE POSTMARKED FEBRUARY 3 OR BE HAND DELIVERED TO OUR OFFICE BY 5:00PM ON FEBRUARY 3. IF YOU’RE HAVING TROUBLE GETTING ALL THE APPLICATION COMPONENTS TO US BY THE DEADLINE, PLEASE GIVE US A CALL AT 978.443.0849 or […]
Tenney Earns Fulbright
Quite proud of Atkinson Scholarship recipient and recent Wheaton College graduate Savannah Tenney who recently received the prestigious Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship! She will use the award to travel to the Taiwanese archipelago of Kinmen, located just off the coast of mainland China, for an 11-month teaching post starting in August. While at Wheaton, Tenney […]
Where You Go to College
It’s college season and the acceptances and rejections are in (including our own Atkinson Scholarship program decisions). We all get so caught up in it, it’s easy to lose perspective. Aja Frost, a freshman at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, wrote a great post for The Prospect, a college admissions and high school/college lifestyles website, directed […]
Scholarship FAQs
1.) How are Atkinson Scholarship recipients selected? We assess applications in three areas: 1. Academics2. “Merit” which includes extracurricular activities, leadership, work experience, student essays (writing quality and content) and recommendations3. Financial Need For Academics, we look primarily at grade point average. Course difficulty, test scores and teacher recommendations are also considered. Recipients generally have […]
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