You Can Get A Full-ride Scholarship, But You Have to Apply

Are you, or do you know, a United States citizen who is currently attending high school, is in their senior year, has a GPA of at least 3.5/4 and achieved a math/verbal/essay SAT score of 2100 or an ACT score of 30? Do you, or that outstanding young person, plan to graduate in the spring of 2016 and have a desire to attend an Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in the fall of 2016? If so, how would you like to have that entire education paid for?

The Tom Joyner Foundation has announced the renewal of its "Full Ride" scholarship program. Tom Joyner, the chairman of the Foundation that bears his name, and host of the top-ranked nationally syndicated Tom Joyner Morning show, said this of the opportunity, “The cost of a college education isn’t getting any …show more content…
She won the Tom Joyner Foundation scholarship last year. Black News reports that other scholarship winners include:

Titus Zeigler from Atlanta’s Henry W. Grady High School. "The future trauma surgeon was a member of the Junior ROTC program, tutored kids at a local middle school and volunteered at the Atlanta Food Bank."

Blaine Robertson, who is now a graduate of from Howard University in Washington, D.C. with a B.S. in mathematics, and a B.A. in history with a minor in secondary education.

Brooklyn New York native, Britney Wilson, another graduate of Howard University who also graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Wilson recently passed the New York Bar exam and is now participating in the Marvin M. Karpatkin Fellowship and working with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Racial Justice Program litigation team.

Cheyenne Boyce became a graduate of Spelman College. The international relations major is fluent in Japanese and spent this last year working as a Fulbright Fellowship English Teaching Assistant (ETA) in