Bank of the Sierra Scholarship
Scholarship Sponsored by Asian Pacific Community Fund
Fourteen $2,000 Scholarships for High School Seniors
Bank of the Sierra (Member FDIC) offers support to low- and moderate-income students living in its service areas who are pursuing higher education.
Important dates
- Application opens: December 2025
- All materials must be RECEIVED by 11:59 p.m. PDT, Monday, April 20, 2026 (late submissions will not be considered, regardless of postmark)
Eligibility
- Current high school seniors who live in one of these counties: Fresno, Kern, Kings, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, or Tulare.
- Plan to enroll as a full-time, degree-seeking freshman at a U.S.-accredited four-year college/university or at a community college in the fall (see note below regarding enrollment verification). If selected, applicants must submit a college acceptance letter for verification.
- Minimum cumulative unweighted high school GPA: 2.5
- Household income must be at or below the Low-to-Moderate Income level (selected recipients must be able to provide a 2024 or 2025 tax return for verification)
- Open to students of all majors; there is no ethnicity requirement
- Employees of Bank of the Sierra and their immediate family members are not eligible
Award use
- Each scholarship award must be used toward tuition costs at the institution the student attends.
Application checklist (all items required)
- Completed application form (the common application only needs to be completed once to apply for all scholarships for which the applicant is eligible)
- Recommender form
- Official high school transcript
Submission instructions
- Application and recommender forms must be submitted online; hard copies will not be accepted.
- All required materials must be received by the deadline above. Submissions sent after 11:59 p.m. PDT on Monday, April 20, 2026, will not be reviewed.
Note: The original materials contained a conflicting enrollment year (one place referenced Fall 2026, another referenced Fall 2025). I have aligned the eligibility timeline with the application schedule (application opens December 2025, deadline April 20, 2026) and assumed the intended enrollment term is Fall 2026. If you prefer the text to preserve the original explicit year that appeared elsewhere (Fall 2025) or want both years left as originally written, tell me which you prefer and I will revise accordingly.