SCHOLARSHIP

2024

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In a moment of calm from attacks on Lowell, the Friends of Lowell
Foundation decided to award college scholarships to pro-merit
Lowellites in order to give back to the FOLF community. The
scholarship program rewards new graduates' appreciation of our shared
alma mater.

 

We awarded a $1,000 college scholarship to Aaron Moses (Class of
2024). He won our first-ever scholarship contest by telling his Lowell
story about how merit-based education made his high school years
meaningful. The fact that a captain of the football team has a GPA
above 4.0 goes to the heart of what makes our alma mater special and
worth protecting. Click here to read Aaron’s story.

2025

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The Friends of Lowell Foundation will again be awarding a college
scholarship to a pro-merit Lowellite. The circumstances, however, are
different this year because the graduates are the first of two cohorts
of lottery admits. We have set the deadline after the end of the
school year so that applicants can feel free to write about their true
experiences without fear of retribution from teachers, the
administration, or the San Francisco Unified School District. There is
no set essay question this year, and the winning applicant will be the
one who writes* the most meaningful piece on the Lowell experience
during the lottery years: Do you feel that teachers treated you
differently from your merit-admitted predecessors? How did this change
(or not) over your high school career? Do you have classmates who
struggled or even transferred out? If you spent your freshman year at
another high school and then transferred to Lowell, tell us about that
experience! In addition to the stories, we would be interested in
transfer data, even if just for a single Registry. Entries may be sent
to contact@friendsoflowell.org by 11:59 p.m. on Friday, August 15.

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* This means that each applicant writes about personal experiences
without the help of AI tools.