Paying For College Shouldn’t Be Hard

$ 700
That's the average amount of debt facing recent college graduates.

The Scholarship Academy (TSA) is a comprehensive scholarship preparatory program that teaches low-income, first generation, and other marginalized applicants how to navigate the maze of financial aid in order to fund their higher education.

Students act as the scholarship committee during our Scholarship Bootcamp at Martha E. Stilwell School of the Arts

Paying For College Shouldn’t Be Hard

Our Founder, Jessica Johnson, started The Scholarship Academy in her dorm room at Howard University because she believed every student deserved an opportunity to pursue a debt-free degree. As a recipient of over $200,000, Jessica sought out to design one of the nation’s first curriculum-based scholarship preparatory programs that would address what we consider to be the 3 most pressing barriers to college affordability:

  1. Students’ lack of awareness of the financial aid process;
  2. The Guidance Counselor’s diminishing capacity to educate students about college; and
  3. Local Scholarship Providers’ disconnection from target student population.

At The Scholarship Academy, our mission is to help low-income students secure resources to pursue higher education opportunities without debt, and, thus, create a healthier financial aid culture.



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