Mountain Laurel Scholarship
This scholarship is to provide financial assistance for a person seeking higher education at an accredited institution including but not limited to: vocational, technical, trade, college, or university levels of education. Assistance is for a resident of Henderson County, North Carolina, leading to a degree. The student must have good academic potential, show a need for financial support to continue his/her education, exhibit personal hardship and demonstrate the initiative to better one’s self. Scholarship candidates are not limited to a graduating senior, but may be awarded to a person who wishes to pursue a higher education. This award is intended to support a student who is not at the top of his or her class academically nor at the bottom of his or her class financially, but a student who may otherwise experience hardship in affording college.