• Oliver LaGrone Scholarship Application

    Oliver LaGrone Scholarship Application

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  • All 2026 applications for the scholarship must be submitted on or before Friday, March 20, 2026. 

    This application must be completed on a desktop. Completion on a phone is not recommended. You may save your progress and return at a later time.

    For more information about the scholarship, please visit: https://uchbg.org/faith-development/scholarship/.

     

  • Oliver LaGrone Scholarship Application

    Section One
    Oliver LaGrone Scholarship Application

  • Personal Information

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  • Post-secondary Applications

    List the accredited post-secondary institution(s) to which you have applied.

  • References

    List three adults who know you well, whom we may contact as references.
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  • About You

    Tell us more about yourself.

  • In addition to the essay, please attach the following documentation:

    1. Transcripts from at least the past two semesters.
    2. SAT or ACT scores.
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  • Oliver LaGrone Scholarship Application

    Section 2
    Oliver LaGrone Scholarship Application

  • Financial Needs Assessment

  • You will find that this application is similar to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). As you may know, the FAFSA is a standard application that is used to apply for federal government student aid (grants and loans) and other aid supplied by other entities.

    You may wish to assemble all of your information, complete your FAFSA, and then complete this form, as it may then be easier to complete this application.

    To complete both the FAFSA and this application, you may need the following documents:

    • Federal tax information, tax documents, or tax returns, including IRS W-2 information, for you (and your spouse, if you are married), and for your parents, if you are a dependent student:
      • IRS Form 1040
      • Foreign tax return or IRS Form 1040-NR
      • Tax return for Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, or Palau
    • Records of your untaxed income, such as child support received, interest income, and veterans noneducation benefits, for you, and for your parents, if you are a dependent student
    • Information on cash; savings and checking account balances; investments, including stocks and bonds and real estate (but not including the home in which you live); and business and farm assets for you and for your parents if you are a dependent student

    This application for the 2026-2027 academic year will request information from the 2024 tax year.

    You will find that some of the FAFSA questions are not asked, and those question numbers are marked as being intentionally omitted.

    Notes for the corresponding FAFSA questions are provided at the bottom of each page.

    If you need assistance completing this form, please email us at OLGS@uchbg.org, or telephone 717-564-4761 to leave a message on how we may contact you to be of assistance.

  • Step One (Student)

  • The numbers in these questions closely correlate to the July 1, 2026 - June 30, 2027 FAFSA form. If you complete your FAFSA first, you will have most of the information you will need to complete this form. You will notice some questions are omitted intentionally.

    Notes to FAFSA questions have been provided below.

    Understand that references made to IRS Forms are for the year 2024.

  • 1 Student Identity Information

  • 2 Student Contact Information

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  • 3 Student Current Marital Status

  • 4 Student College or Career School Plans

  • 5 Student Personal Circumstances

  • 6 Student Other Circumstances

  • 7 Student Unusual Circumstances

    A student may be experiencing unusual circumstances if they: left home due to an abusive or threatening environment; are abandoned by or estranged from their parents; have refugee or asylee status and are separated from their parents, or their parents are displaced in a foreign country; are a victim of human trafficking; are incarcerated, or their parents are incarcerated, and contact with the parents would pose a risk to the student; or are otherwise unable to contact or locate their parents. If the student’s circumstances resulted in their not having a safe, stable place to live, they may be considered a homeless youth and should review the answer to question 6 about being unaccompanied and homeless.

  • 8 (Intentionally Omitted)

  • 9 Family Size

  • 10 Number in College

  • 11 and 12 (Intentionally Omitted)

    • 2026-2027 FAFSA Notes for Questions 

  • Step Two (Student)

    Answer the following questions about yourself (the student). If you were never married, or are separated, divorced or widowed and are not remarried, answer only about yourself. If you are married or remarried as of today, include information about your spouse. If the answer is zero or does not apply, enter 0. Report whole dollar amounts with no cents.

  • 13 Student Citizenship

  • 14 Student State of Legal Residence

  • 15 and 16 (Intentionally Omitted)

  • 17 Student High School Information

  • 18 Federal Benefits Received

  • 19 Student Tax Filing Status

  • If the answer is “No” to both of the questions above, and the student is not married, questions 20–22 can be skipped; however, if the student is also required to provide parent information on the form, question 22 must be answered.

  • 20 Student 2024 Tax Return Information

  • Convert all currency to U.S. dollars. If the answer is zero or the question does not apply, enter 0.

  • 21 Annual Child Support Received

  • 22 Student Assets

    If the answer to question 3 was “Married” or “Remarried,” enter the combined amounts held by the student and their spouse. If the answer is zero or the question does not apply, enter 0.

  • 23 and 24 (Intentionally Omitted)

    • 2026-2027 FAFSA Notes for Questions 

  • Step Three (Student Spouse)

    If the student’s current marital status, as indicated in question 3, is married or remarried, the student’s spouse must complete questions 25 and 26 of the Student Spouse section. The spouse must also complete questions 27–29 if the student answered “No” to “Did or will the student file a 2024 joint tax return with their current spouse?”, in question 19.

  • 25 Student Spouse Identity Information

  • 26 Student Spouse Contact Information

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  • 27 Student Spouse Tax Filing Status

  • If the answer is “No” to both of the questions above, question 28 can be skipped.

  • 28 Student Spouse 2024 Tax Return Information

  • Convert all currency to U.S. dollars. If the answer is zero or the question does not apply, enter 0.

  • 29 (Intentionally Omitted)

    • 2026-2027 FAFSA Notes for Questions 

  • Step Four (Parent)

    See “Who must provide information on the FAFSA form?”, on page 3, to determine if a parent must complete this section. Questions 30–41 apply to the student’s parent. Leave blank any questions that don’t apply to the parent

  • 30 Parent Identity Information

  • 31 Parent Contact Information

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  • 32 (Intentionally Omitted)

  • 33 Parent State of Legal Residence

  • 34 Family Size

  • 35 Number in College

  • 36 Federal Benefits Received

  • 37 Parent Tax Filing Status

  • 38 Parent 2024 Tax Return Information

  • Convert all currency to U.S. dollars. If the answer is zero or the question does not apply, enter 0.

  • 39 Annual Child Support Received

  • 40 Parent Assets

    If the answer to question 32 was “Married,” “Remarried,” or “Unmarried and both legal parents living together,” enter the combined amounts held by the parent and their spouse. If the answer is zero or the question does not apply, enter 0.

  • 41 (Intentionally Omitted)

    • 2026-2027 FAFSA Notes for Questions 

  • Step Five (Parent Spouse or Partner)

    Do not complete this section if you are not the student’s legal parent or stepparent. See “Who must provide information on the FAFSA form?”, on page 3, to determine if the parent spouse or partner must complete this section. Questions 42–46 apply to the parent spouse or partner. Leave blank any questions that don’t apply to the parent spouse or partner.

  • 42 Parent Spouse or Partner Identity Information

  • 43 Parent Spouse or Partner Contact Information

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  • 44 Parent Spouse or Partner Tax Filing Status

  • 45 Parent Spouse or Partner 2024 Tax Return Information

  • Convert all currency to U.S. dollars. If the answer is zero or the question does not apply, enter 0.

    • 2026-2027 FAFSA Notes for Questions 

  • Step Six (Student & Parent)

    Certification and Submission

  • Terms and Conditions

    The LaGrone Scholar will be eligible to receive the scholarship funds subject to the terms and conditions. If these terms and conditions are not met, or if the Scholar is found to have falsified or altered any school record or other information submitted to the Oliver LaGrone Scholarship Committee, the Scholar will forfeit any funds that have not been disbursed.

    The Oliver LaGrone Scholarship is offered only to graduates of Harrisburg High School, including John Harris and SciTech campuses, Cougar Academy, and Harrisburg Virtual Learning Academy.

    The scholarship is open to applicants to an accredited post-secondary institution such as a college, business school, technical school, school of nursing, or an institute of fine arts.

    To receive the scholarship money, the LaGrone Scholar must provide the following items to the Scholarship Committee by July 1st and January 1st of each year:

    • An official transcript of the Scholar’s grades for the semester just ended, showing proof of satisfactory academic progress, and
    • Proof of enrollment for the upcoming semester or term.

    The Scholar will maintain communication with their LaGrone Mentor at least three times a year, July to June. It is recommended that the Scholar and Mentor keep a record of when contact is made.

    If the Scholar fails to communicate with their Mentor or with the Scholarship Committee for a period in excess of 365 days, the Scholar will forfeit their eligibility to receive any additional disbursements from the Scholarship Fund.

    The Scholar will notify the Scholarship Committee and/or their Mentor of post-secondary and home addresses, email and telephone numbers during their school career. Scholarship checks are mailed to the most recent address provided to the Scholarship Committee.

    The Scholar may specify whether the check is to be mailed to their home address or their post-secondary address. Scholarship checks will be made payable to the Scholar, or, if the Scholar so designates, to the Scholar and the institution of higher learning.

    If the Scholar is not registered for any post-secondary classes or scheduled for any formal lessons or formal assignments within their training curriculum for 730 consecutive days, they will forfeit any additional disbursements from the Scholarship Fund. The Scholar may appeal to the Scholarship Committee but the Committee is not required to reinstate their eligibility to receive undisbursed funds.

  • Parent and student agree that by signing this application, you certify that all of the information you provided is true and complete to the best of your knowledge.

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