The deadline for the 2024 Coca-Cola Scholarship application has passed.
UPDATE (1/12): Click here to view the list of the 2024 Regional Finalists.
All Semifinalists were sent emails on Jan 3-4 notifying them of their status.
For additional scholarship resources, visit the RESOURCES section of our page here.
Click here for an outline of the Coke Scholars selection process.
NOTE: While logins and profiles may be created in our online system after October 2, 2023, these profiles will NOT be advanced to the application process.
The 2025 application, open to high school students who will graduate during the 2024-2025 academic year, will open August 1, 2024.
To be eligible for consideration for 2025, applicants must be:
- Current high school/home-schooled students attending school in one of the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, or select DoD schools who will graduate high school during the 2024-2025 academic school year (students graduating from an American or expat school abroad are not eligible for this award; individuals who have already graduated from high school are not eligible)
- U.S. Citizens (not Temporary Residents), U.S. Nationals, U.S. Permanent Residents, Refugees, Asylees, Cuban-Haitian Entrants, OR Humanitarian Parolees - based on the guidelines utilized by U.S. Department of Education for Federal Financial Aid eligibility
- Planning to pursue a degree at an accredited U.S. college or university
Applicants may not be:
- Children or grandchildren of current employees, officers, or owners of Coca-Cola bottling companies, The Coca-Cola Company, Company divisions or subsidiaries
- Children or grandchildren of former employees, officers, or owners of Coca-Cola bottling companies, The Coca-Cola Company, Company divisions or subsidiaries who are currently receiving retirement benefits from those entities
- Students attending school outside of the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, or Puerto Rico (with the exception of students attending select DoD schools; students graduating from an American or expat school abroad are not eligible for this award, even if they meet the citizenship criteria above)
- High school graduates (if you received a high school diploma prior to the 2023-2024 school year, you are not eligible)
- Temporary Residents (if your permanent legal residence is outside the U.S., you are not eligible)