2025 Preferred Bank Scholarship Program

 
 

$16,000 in Scholarship Awards Available

Eight $2,000 Scholarships Available for High School Seniors
Planning to Attend College as a Full-Time, Degree-Seeking Student in the Fall of 2025
Preferred Bank is committed to supporting economically-challenged youth residing in its business service territories to fulfill their dreams of obtaining a higher education.

ELIGIBILITY:

  • High school seniors who reside in

    • California – Alameda, Contra Costa, Los Angeles, Marin, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Francisco and San Mateo

    • New York – Bronx, Kings, Nassau, New York, Putnam, Queens, Richmond, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester

    • New Jersey – Passaic, Bergen and Hudson

    • Texas — Harris, Fort Bend, Brazoria, Montgomery, and Galveston.

  • Plan to attend a U.S. Accredited 4-Year College/University or a Community College as a 1st year student in the Fall of 2025 (if selected, must submit college acceptance letter for verification)

  • A minimum cumulative unweighted high school GPA of 3.0

  • A household income at or below the Low-Income Level (if selected, must provide 2023 or 2024 tax return for verification)

  • Open to ALL MAJORS and there is NO ETHNICITY REQUIREMENT

  • Employees of Preferred Bank and their immediate family members are NOT eligible to apply

APPLICATION CHECKLIST:

  • Application Form

  • Recommender Form

  • High School Transcript

INSTRUCTIONS AND GUIDELINES:

Sample Application

Low Income Level Chart

Sample Recommender Form

APPLICATION MATERIALS:

Applicants only have to fill out the common application once to apply to all scholarship programs they are eligible for

APPLICATION LIVE DECEMBER 2024

 

The scholarship awards will only be used to cover the cost of tuition for attending a college/university, as defined by the institution attended.

All materials must be RECEIVED by 11:59pm PDT, Monday, April 21, 2025. Anything received (whether mailed, emailed, or faxed) past that date and time will not be considered, regardless of the postmark. Application and recommender forms MUST be submitted online – Hard copies will NOT be accepted.

Questions or inquiries?

Contact by phone: (213) 624-6400 ext. 6 or by email: scholarships@apcf.org.


Scholarship Awardees

Click the links below to see the scholarship recipients from years prior:

2024

Alexander McKenna; Queens, NY - Adelphi University

Annie Cai; Los Angeles, CA - University of Southern California

Anqi Lin; Newark, CA - De Anza College

Berleen Grewal; Mission Hills, CA - University of California, San Diego

Courtney Vu; Alhambra, CA - Cal State University Los Angeles

Dalia Gutierrez Benitez; Santa Ana, CA - University of California,Riverside

Justina Salama; Cypress, TX - Baylor University

YingJun Tan; Los Angeles, CA - Harvard University

2023

Brian Thai; Houston, TX – University of Texas, Austin

Esther Jang; Los Angeles, CA – University of Michigan

HongQui Li; Flushing, NY – University of Buffalo

Judy Kang; Los Angeles, CA – University of California, Berkeley

Matthew Chen; San Francisco, CA – Yale University

Nhu Cao; Garden Grove, CA - University of California, Los Angeles

Shani Su; Walnut, CA - Stanford University

Sophia Adkins; Los Angeles, CA - University of California, Los Angeles

2022

Aman Kumar; Montebello, CA – University of Southern California

Anh Nguyen; Burbank, CA – University of Southern California

Arman Ayra; Los Angeles, CA – Princeton University

Cindy (Xingyi) Zheng; Brooklyn, NY – University of Pennsylvania

Emily Diep; Chino, CA – University of California Los Angeles

Hui Luo; Baldwin Park, CA - University of Southern California

Janice Tran; Oakland, CA - Wesleyan University

Louis Lee; Fullerton, CA - Northwestern University

Raef Makrai; San Bruno, CA - University of California, Berkeley

Yubin Lee; South Pasadena, CA - University of California Santa Barbara

2021

Joanna Lov Ngo; San Gabriel, CA – University of California, Davis

Juliana Zeng; San Francisco, CA – University of California, Berkeley

Kyle Li; Monrovia, CA – Princeton University

Madison Spanodemos; Malverne, NY – St. John’s University

Nicole Lam; San Gabriel, CA – Yale University

2020

Crystal Chan; San Francisco, CA – Yale University

Kameron Milton; Hawthorne, CA – Howard University

Kanin Liang; Fullerton, CA – Troy High School

Kimberly Nguyen; Gardena, CA – Georgetown University

Saziya Virani; Rego Park, NY – Pennsylvania State University