🔲 Begin the 2025 CLSA Application on www.clsap.org

🔲 Upload CURRENT Transcript. Please request One (1) electronic official High School Transcript and/or one (1)  electronic official College    Transcript from your school

🔲 Upload SAT/ACT – Students may use a copy of the SAT/ACT official report sent with test scores or downloaded from www.collegeboard.org  (there may be more than one SAT/ ACT Report)

🔲 Upload Student Resume

🔲 Upload Two (2) Letters of Recommendation – Original, one each: an Academic Recommendation and a Community Recommendation     

🔲 Upload Requested Essay as required from specific Scholarship Providers

🔲 Upload Requested 2-minute MP3 file as required from specific Scholarship Providers

Note: FAFSA Submission Summary for the 2025–2026 award year (FAFSA® Application | Federal Student Aid). Not required at submission; however, upon request by a scholarship provider, students must be prepared to submit a copy of their summary before consideration for a scholarship

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1. For fairness and equal opportunity, the CLSA will not notify applicants of incomplete CLSA applications. Please use the required documents checklist as your guide to complete the application. Review and re-read your CLSA form before you click SUBMIT.

2. The CLSA Manager CANNOT ACCEPT APPLICATIONS THAT DO NOT MEET THE DEADLINE, NOR ACCEPT CORRECTIONS, ADDITIONAL MATERIAL, OR CHANGES OF ANY KIND, AFTER THE MARCH 7, 2025 DEADLINE.​

3. The CLSA Manager holds all applicant information confidentially and stores all applications on a secure server. Only Scholarship Provider(s) indicated on an individual’s application are provided with the student’s CLSA application.

4. Save required essays in the following format: Student name and scholarship provider. Save all other documents in the following format: student’s first and last name.

   • Essays:  (example - jane_doe_XYZ Company)

   • Other documents: (example -  jane_doe​)

5. Email Address: This is REQUIRED as all correspondence will be directed to the email address you specified on the application. 

6. Ethnicity: Indicate your primary ethnic identification. This field is REQUIRED if you are applying for an ethnicity-specific scholarship.

7. College acceptance letters: Upload a copy of a college acceptance letter in Section VI if you are applying to the scholarships offered by the following providers:

   1. American Legion Auxiliary Unit #274

   2. Concerned Black Women of Calvert County 

   3. Southern Maryland Chain (MD) Chapter, The Links Incorporated

   4. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Calvert County Maryland NAACP Branch-7011

   5. Calvert County Parks & Recreation