FFWS provides need-based grants to randomly selected, recent graduates of Wisconsin public high schools who are starting their first year of attendance at a UW four year institution to earn an undergraduate baccalaureate degree. Grants are gifted aid; they do not have to be repaid. There is no application process; eligibility is determined using data from the Federal Application for Student Aid (FAFSA). Once a list of eligible students is provided to the University of Wisconsin System Offices, recipients are randomly selected to receive the grant.
To learn more about the Fund for Wisconsin Program, please see their website here.
To be eligible, one must:
- Be a resident of Wisconsin
- Have been a full-time, resident student in a Wisconsin public school for four semesters prior to graduation
- Have received a Wisconsin public high school diploma or HSED within the past three years
- Be under the age of 21 years on the 1st of September of the year of initial eligibility
- Be in the first year of a baccalaureate degree program or moving directly from a WTCS or UW Branch Campus with at least 24 successful credits at the institution
- Be enrolled full time in a UW System four year comprehensive university based in Wisconsin
- Be a PELL recipient at initial eligibility
- Have remaining unmet financial need
Student may continue to receive FFWS grants for up to 8-10 semesters if:
- Student’s college enrollment at either a UW four year university or a UW Branch campus
- Enrollment does not exceed six semesters at a WTCS or a UW two-year college branch
- Adequate academic progress is being made with undergraduate baccalaureate degree
- Student’s school continues to follow the grant process
- FAFSA is completed each year
- Student has remaining unmet financial need