APPLICATION PROCEDURE Deadline February 21st

Aspen High School coordinates almost all of the local scholarships into one general online process for students. 

1. The “General Application” and required attachments:  Local scholarship groups/donors use SmarterSelect, an online portal to receive applicant information.  Therefore, the first step in your application process will be to set up a SmarterSelect account and submit the “General Application” including answering all of the questions in the application and uploading an essay or personal statement, transcript, resume or Common App activity sheet, and two letters of recommendation. If you will be using an AHS teacher or counselor recommendation, please indicate their names in the online application and those letters will be uploaded from Scoir to your SmarterSelect application after your application has been submitted.  A FAFSA SAR is a required upload for students applying for financial need-based scholarships.  

2. “Specific Scholarship Applications”: After you have submitted the “General Application”, decide the local scholarships for which you will apply.  Links to all of the specific scholarships are listed below.  To apply to each individual scholarship, you will need to click on its “Specific Application” link. It is through the “Specific Applications” that you may be asked to answer additional questions and/ or provide a supplemental essay. 

3. “Spring Update”: Scholarship donors are very interested in where you will be attending college and what type of financial aid package that school is offering.  Applicants are asked to submit a supplemental application including additional financial information and matriculation decisions.  A link to the Spring Application Update will be provided to all submitted applicants. 

APPLICATION LINKS:     "2023 General Application" - Complete this first!

Links for SmarterSelect "Specific Scholarship Applications" - Click on the link for the specific scholarship for which you are applying. The link will take you to the “Specific Scholarship Application”. At the top of the page, click on"Returning Applicant."  The application will auto-fill the information you provided in the General Application.  It is through the “Specific Applications” that you may be asked to answer additional questions and/ or provide a supplemental essay.

Aspen Cancer Conference Scholarship

Aspen Chapel Spirit Award 

Aspen Community Theater Scholarship 

Aspen Football Gridiron Classic Scholarship

Aspen Fraternal Order of the Elks Lodge Scholarship 

Aspen Promise Scholarship 

Aspen Rotary Club Scholarship

Aspen Thrift Shop Scholarship 

“Count on Me” Scholarship at Aspen Community Foundation

Douglas Pumpelly Memorial Scholarship

Flatirons Scholarship in Memory of Chapin Wright 

Futures Fund Scholarship

Glah Family Opportunity Scholarship

Gunilla Israel Asher Memorial Scholarship

Haley Rinaldi Soccer Memorial Scholarship Fund

Harley Baldwin Memorial Scholarship at Aspen Community Foundation

Jake Foerster Music Arts Scholarship  

Jasper Mountain Ideas & Inventions Scholarship

Jerome Hatem Scholarship at Aspen Community Foundation

John Haines Opportunity Scholarship  

Les Dames D'Aspen Scholarship  

North of Nell Scholarship in honor of Joe Raczak

Pitkin County Healthy River Scholarship  

Poppycock’s Scholarship and Distinguished Service Award  

Robbie Wade Environmental Scholarship 

School Resource Officer/Law Enforcement Award 

Snowmass Village Community Foundation Award 

Tom Peirce Memorial Scholarship at Aspen Community Foundation

Willard L. Clapper Memorial Award