Badger Precollege Online

Scholarship information

**The last date to submit scholarship documents is April 15, 2025, for summer sessions. Please note that earlier submissions may increase your chances of receiving aid.**

Full Scholarship: Open to Wisconsin residents only
To qualify for a full scholarship, you must:

• Receive free or reduced lunch in the state of Wisconsin during the current school year
• Submit a DPI Form with your school’s Authorized Representative signature (ex: Food Service Director, Principal, Counselor) AND the checkbox verifying your free-reduced lunch status before submitting your registration. Once this has been received, we will follow up with further instructions.

If you don’t qualify for a full scholarship or are not a resident of Wisconsin, you may qualify for a partial scholarship.

Partial Scholarship:
To qualify for a partial scholarship, you must:

• Submit the first page of the 1040 form of the most recent year’s tax return with Social Security numbers redacted. If extenuating circumstances (i.e. loans, loss of employment) are not reflected on tax return but are impacting your family’s finances, please also submit your financial need story.
• If you plan to apply for a scholarship, you will need a code to postpone payment for this program while we are considering your scholarship application. To receive a code, please send the following request to [email protected]:

“I will be applying for a scholarship.  Can you please provide me a code to delay tuition payment?”

• Scholarship award determination has been made and recipients will be informed by May 1, 2025. If you are awarded a partial scholarship, any remaining balance will be due by June 1, 2025.  If you do not receive a scholarship and plan to apply and pay the tuition in full, you will be billed the full tuition amount, with payment due by June 1, 2025.

Scholarship Documents can be submitted via email to [email protected] OR mailed to our office:
Badger Precollege
21 N Park St, 7th Floor
Madison, WI 53715

*Please note that students who accept a scholarship through the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) are only allowed three DPI scholarships per year. The current year is defined as July 1, 2024–June 30, 2025.

For further information about DPI Wisconsin-resident scholarships, visit the Badger Precollege Financial information page.

Social Impact Leadership Online

The Social Impact Leadership online course offers international and domestic high school students the opportunity to develop as leaders and ultimately design and implement a social impact project in their local school or community.  This course will engage you and your peers from across the globe in discussion and action around how to create positive social impact, evaluate your community through an assets-based lens, develop your transferable skills of problem-solving, marketing, team-building, leadership, and public speaking and support you in developing actionable projects. 

Learn from guest experts who excel at building strong teams, making meaningful impact and measuring success as you work collaboratively with peers to design and launch your initiative. After launch, reflect on improvements, modifications and ways to extend your project’s impact. At the course’s conclusion, share your process and progress with professionals from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and surrounding community in a group reflection gallery session highlighting your class’s incredible work!