Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Young Scholars Program
Duke TIP joins the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation to administer the Young Scholars Program for exceptional students.
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation is a private, independent foundation, established by Jack Kent Cooke to help young people of exceptional promise reach their full potential through education. The foundation focuses in particular on individuals with financial need.
Young Scholars Program
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Young Scholars Program provides individualized educational services to a select group of high-achieving students with financial need. Students apply in the spring of their 7th grade and are notified in the fall of their eighth grade year. Young Scholars work closely with the Foundation's educational advisors to select and design academic services focused on their unique educational needs, special talents, and highest potential. The Foundation then provides financial support for these services beginning in the summer before ninth grade and, for students who continue to meet Foundation criteria, throughout high school.
For example, if accepted into the Young Scholars Programs, students may receive funding for summer programs to which they qualify, or for supplemental courses. These scholarship recipients will also receive help in finding the best high school environment; support to develop musical or artistic talents; or help in obtaining computer equipment. Students are expected to work closely with a Foundation educational advisor throughout their time as Young Scholars.
Selection Criteria
With the assistance of a panel of national experts, the Foundation selects Young Scholars from across the United States using these criteria:
- High academic ability and achievement,
- Unmet financial need,
- Motivation and will to succeed,
- Leadership and public service
- Accomplishment in music, the arts, literature, or other extracurricular activities
The Foundation encourages those with learning differences to apply.