California mayflower Society
Scholarship Contest
The California Mayflower Society now awards four scholarships each year to qualified applicants:
One $5500 scholarship, one $3,500 scholarship, one $2,500 scholarship, and one $1,000 scholarship.
2025 Scholarship Announcement.
ELIGIBILITY
A scholarship recipient must be a high school senior during the year he/she applies for the scholarship.
Scholarship applicants must show a lineage connection to the California Mayflower Society:
If you or one of your parents wish to join the California Mayflower Society, you should immediately begin work to prove your descent from a Mayflower passenger. This process takes several months and must be completed before an applicant can apply for the scholarship.
Information about the process of documenting your Mayflower ancestry is available from the General Society of Mayflower Descendants website. To begin your membership application, if outside of California, contact the historian for the Mayflower Society in your state of residence by emailing them (links to state historians). If inside California, contact the California Historian here to be directed to the appropriate Assistant Historian in your area.
Scholarship applicants must show a lineage connection to the California Mayflower Society:
- as a current member of the California Mayflower Society, who has an adult California Mayflower Society membership number; or
- as the child, grandchild, great-grandchild, niece, nephew, grandniece, grandnephew, great-grandniece or great-grandnephew of a living, current member of the California Mayflower Society, who has a California Mayflower Society membership number.
If you or one of your parents wish to join the California Mayflower Society, you should immediately begin work to prove your descent from a Mayflower passenger. This process takes several months and must be completed before an applicant can apply for the scholarship.
Information about the process of documenting your Mayflower ancestry is available from the General Society of Mayflower Descendants website. To begin your membership application, if outside of California, contact the historian for the Mayflower Society in your state of residence by emailing them (links to state historians). If inside California, contact the California Historian here to be directed to the appropriate Assistant Historian in your area.
Requirements
Applicants must submit:
1) A Scholarship Application Form, including a written component exploring their Mayflower heritage
2) A copy of their high school transcript
3&4) Two letters of recommendation.
1) A Scholarship Application Form, including a written component exploring their Mayflower heritage
2) A copy of their high school transcript
3&4) Two letters of recommendation.
To apply
Download and save both the 2024-2025 Scholarship Application Instructions and the 2024-2025 Scholarship Application Form. Everything you will need to prepare, format and submit your application is in these two documents.
deadline
All application materials must be received no later than 11:59pm, Saturday, March 1, 2025. No late or incomplete applications will be accepted.
For More Information
If you have questions about any aspect of the scholarship program, please send an email to State Scholarship Secretary, Billie Mitchell at [email protected]
submitting scholarship applications
1) For the electronic submissions, please email: State Scholarship Secretary, Billie Mitchell at: [email protected]
2) For U.S. Mail submissions please send applications to:
Mrs. Billie Mitchell
State Scholarship Secretary
California Mayflower Society
26902 Highwood Circle
Laguna Hills, CA 92653
2) For U.S. Mail submissions please send applications to:
Mrs. Billie Mitchell
State Scholarship Secretary
California Mayflower Society
26902 Highwood Circle
Laguna Hills, CA 92653
Other mayflower society scholarship opportunities:
General Society of mayflower descendants scholarship:
The General Society of Mayflower Descendants (GSMD) Scholarship Program offers scholarships to graduating high school seniors who are Mayflower descendants and will be attending a four-year college or university or two-year community college.
For more information and eligibility requirements regarding the Annual GSMD Scholarship please click here:
For more information and eligibility requirements regarding the Annual GSMD Scholarship please click here:
California Society Colony Scholarships:
Several Colonies in the California Mayflower Society offer College Scholarships to qualified members of their colonies. Please inquire with your Colony to see if it offers scholarships for qualified high school seniors and/or college attendees. Certain qualifications and eligibility are required by each Colony individually and must be met to compete for their scholarship. Competing for a Colony Scholarship does not prevent a student from competing for the California State Scholarship or the GSMD Scholarship, as they are all administered by different entities and have different judging panels.
