It’s simple to apply for the $2,000 No Essay Scholarship, which has no essay requirement! Any educational expenditures, including tuition, housing, books, and other living costs, may be covered by the scholarship. The monthly award recipient will be selected at random, contacted by Niche personally, and announced on the Scholarship Awards page and in Niche’s e-newsletter. One application per month is permitted, and one winner will be chosen each month.
Host Schools
All schools in the USA
Values/Inclusions
For the sweepstakes, a single prize of $2,000 will be given in cash to the winner
Requirements
- Open to all students in college, high school, and graduate school who plan to enroll within the next 12 months.
- Either you must be eighteen years old or above at the time of admission, or you must be a legal resident of one of the following states or commonwealths, where the legal majority age is higher than eighteen years old.
- To access Niche.com and participate in this sweepstakes, you must be thirteen years old at the time of registration and be under the control and supervision of a parent or legal guardian.
- Must be a student at a college or high school identified on niche.com, want to enroll within 12 months, or be the family of a student who fits any of those criteria.
- Any attempt to enter a survey with incorrect or incomplete information may lead to a lifetime dismissal from the scholarship competition and any subsequent competitions.
- Per person, email address, and household is only permitted one (1) entry. Every sweepstakes period will have a different winner selected. Only the sweepstakes period in which they have received counts as the validity of an entry.
- The winners will get their prizes in person. By email and on the website https://www.niche.com/about/scholarship-winners/, winners will be announced.
How to apply
Those interested in applying for the $2000 Niche No Essay Scholarship should follow the application link.
HOW TO JOIN THE SWEEPSTAKES:
During the Entry Period, there are two (2) methods to enter the sweepstakes:
- online entry; and
- mail-in entry.
Other entry methods won’t be permitted. Each person, email address, and household are only allowed one (1) entry.
Entries that are provided after the submission period or more than the given limit will be invalid. The official timekeeper of the sweepstakes shall be the Sponsor’s computer. Any submissions that do not adhere to the
Censorship Rules or these Official Rules in any other way are void. For the duration of the sweepstakes, any entry that was submitted under the Standard Rules and was not disqualified is referred to as an “Eligible Entry.”
Please visit https://www.niche.com/colleges/scholarship/no-essay-scholarship/ for information on how to enter online. Enter by filling out the online entry form with all the necessary information. By mail, write your full name, address, location, country, state, postal or zip code, mobile number, birth date, and e-mail address by hand on a postcard. Postcard entries should be mailed to the address shown below.
Acceptance Rate
The scholarship will be awarded to only one student in the USA and has a low acceptance rate.
Deadline
DEADLINE is September 30, 2026 (11:00 PM ET)
Contact
You can either visit the scholarship board at their address: 2840 Liberty Avenue, Suite 202, Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Or access the online contact page and fill out the form providing the necessary details and your inquiry which will be responded to speedily.
Any other information
SELECTION OF WINNER:
One (1) possible winner of the Prize will be chosen at random from all eligible entries on or around the 15th of each month. The potential winner (“Potential Winner”) will be recognized as the actual winner of the Contest (“Winner”) after eligibility has been confirmed and all requirements of these Official Guidelines have been met.
Within ten (10) days following the drawing date, notification and guidelines for the Prize (described under) will be provided via post, phone, posting on Facebook, and/or email. Each participant is in charge of keeping an eye out for any messages regarding the Sweepstakes.
For each of the following situations, the potential winner will forfeit the Prize (described below), and a potential winner will be chosen at random from the outstanding Eligible Entries:
The prize will not be awarded if any of the following conditions are met:
(a) if the potential successful candidate cannot be contacted by the Host within two (2) days from the day, the award confirmation was sent using the contact details supplied at the time of admittance;
(b) The possible contender is disqualified as described in the sweepstakes’ official rules;
(c) The top contender continues to fail to timely recover all completed forms required to receive the Prize; or
(d) The Prize is reverted as undeliverable. No matter how much the reward is, the potential winner must fill out a tax affidavit to claim it. The winner’s address, name, and Ssn will be requested in the affidavit so that the Host can, if necessary, send the winner an IRS Form 1099.