Non-Resident Freshman Scholarships

Rocky Mountain Scholars
The University of Wyoming Rocky Mountain Scholars Award provides one of five amounts of annual scholarship support to incoming non-resident freshmen students based on their cumulative high school GPA (calculated on an unweighted standard 4.0 scale) and composite ACT or SAT score.

The Rocky Mountain Scholars Awards are also available to home schooled students who have an ACT composite of 25 or greater as follows:

To apply for Rocky Mountain Scholars Awards, students must:

• Apply for admission (www.uwyo.edu/apply)
• Submit official high school transcripts
• Submit official ACT/SAT test scores
• Submit the $40 admission application fee
• Be admitted to UW

Students are provisionally awarded scholarships by the UW Admissions Office shortly after being admitted. Final awards are made upon receipt of all final academic records. To ensure Rocky Mountain Scholars Award consideration, please submit all of your admission application materials by May 1. A student's scholarship award may go up or down based on final cumulative GPA and test scores.

This scholarship is only available to first-time, entering freshmen seeking their first bachelor's degree, but is renewable for up to 8 semesters (4 years). Students must maintain full-time enrollment in Laramie campus courses (12 semester hours) during the Fall and Spring semesters each year and maintain a 3.0 cumulative GPA. The scholarship is not available for use during Summer semesters.

Students selected to receive the Rocky Mountain Scholars Award must confirm their enrollment at UW by May 1st. Students will receive instructions on how to confirm their enrollment after being admitted.

Western Undergraduate Exchange (WUE)

UW will recognize a select group of new non-resident freshman from 15 western states for their academic excellence (high school GPA, test scores,and academic rigor) through awarding of the Western Undergraduate Exchange (WUE) Scholarship. WUE recipients will pay tuition at 150% of the resident tuition rate. Awards are competitive and limited.   

For WUE Scholarship consideration, students must be residents of a WUE participating state (Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, or Washington) and have a completed admissions application (application, $40 application fee, official transcripts, and ACT/SAT test scores) so that the materials are received by the UW Admissions Office on or before December 1. Selections for the freshman fall 2012 entering class have been completed and recipients have been notified by mail.  Awardees for the will be notified on or around February 1, 2012. Awards are competitive and limited. WUE award value fluctuates yearly based on UW tuition rates and recipient enrolled credit hours. Those receiving the heavily discounted WUE tuition rate will not be eligible to receive Rocky Mountain Scholars awards. To learn more about how the University of Wyoming awards WUE and eligibility requirements, click here.

Children of UW Graduates
Discounts given to children of UW graduates are not available in addition to the Rocky Mountain Scholars award amounts listed above, but instead serve to enhance the student's overall benefit. Please contact the Admissions Office or visit our Children of Alumni tuition benefit page for additional details on how the Rocky Mountain Scholars award and the Child of Alumni benefit work together.

All scholarships are subject to available funding.

Additional UW Scholarships

Academic College and Department Scholarships
Students are encouraged to explore scholarship opportunities through their academic department and through other UW programs. These scholarship opportunities, including eligibility and application details can be found here. Honors Program scholarships are also available and can be found at www.uwyo.edu/honors.

Talent Scholarships
Additional "talent-based scholarships" may be available to qualified students. These include scholarships given for athletics, art, theatre, dance, etc. Interested students should connect directly with these programs to inquire about scholarships.