Freshman Scholarships
First-Year, Full-Time Incoming Freshmen Only: 2026 High School Graduates
Freshman scholarships are available to high school seniors fully admitted to The University
of ½ûÂþÌìÌà Mississippi for the fall semester immediately following high school graduation;
therefore, students classified as readmitted by the Office of Admissions are not eligible.
Scholarship applications begin closing as early as February 1, 2025 so make sure you
have completed your FAFSA and have adequate time to apply for all available scholarship
opportunities for the upcoming year.
A completed admission file includes an application for admission, the $45 application
fee, your high school transcript, and ACT or SAT scores. A current Free Application
for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is required for most undergraduate scholarships.
* Students who are classified as freshman by the criteria above do not qualify for
transfer scholarships. Freshman scholarships cannot be stacked with transfer scholarships.
Things to know:
The Office of Scholarships and Financial Wellness does not calculate student GPAs. We use the cumulative GPA provided by our Office of Admissions that is listed on the student’s official transcript at the time of admission for Academic Excellence Scholarship consideration and awarding purposes.
For Freshman Academic Scholarships, Designation-Based Scholarships, and Competitive Scholarships, only standardized test scores (ACT or SAT) earned through the student's senior year and before the appropriate scholarship deadline will be considered.
- For students exclusively submitting SAT scores, the combined scores of the Critical Reading and Quantitative sections will be the standardized test scores of record for the purposes of scholarship awarding and Honors College admission consideration.
- This score will be converted to the equivalent ACT score based on the testing concordance in place at the time of the testing date. (Click here and view Table A2.)
- The University of ½ûÂþÌìÌà Mississippi does accept super score ACT and SAT for scholarship purposes. (This only applies to incoming Freshman Academic Year 2022 and beyond. Previous years are ineligible for superscore criteria.)
Most freshman scholarships will stack, up to cost of attendance. However, the State of Mississippi governing board, IHL, does not allow students to receive two scholarships for the same designation (ex: two tuition or housing scholarships). If you receive Discovery, Presidential, National Merit or other tuition scholarships, your Academic Excellence Tuition Scholarship will be cancelled. You can stack Academic Excellence Scholarship if selected for the Luckyday Scholars Program