The Scholarship is meaningful to me because I would not be able to attend college without it. My parents moved from Cuba to the U.S when I was 5 to give me and my siblings a better life. They worked day and night to be able to support us. I want to make them proud and achieve my dreams. Without the scholarship, I would be unable to do so. Thank you for helping me achieve my goals.

After graduation, I plan to go to law school to become a lawyer.

Receiving a scholarship like this is so amazing and I very much appreciate it! I give all my thanks to Costco Wholesale for contributing money, time, and opportunity to people like me. It brings a smile to my face that people want to financially bless me, as I know not everyone gets this opportunity. Thank you so much.

After I graduate, I want to work at a middle school as a counselor or as a youth pastor at a church. I want to insert myself deeper into the community of Eugene and Springfield and make the community a better and more hopeful place by working with middle schoolers. I want to create an environment where they feel welcomed, loved, and want to encourage them that they are enough and to not go through life alone.

I chose my college and major because I love doing the things I already do, which is hanging with and mentoring middle schoolers in youth ministry. When I decided to go back to school, Bushnell caught my eye the most. I saw a community that not just loves but wants to see their students succeed.

This scholarship is such a blessing and so meaningful to me. I am a Resident Assistant at my University and have been working hard to find a second job on campus to help pay for school. My mom has been working two jobs for the past few years to also help us receive quality education. Thank you so much for your generosity and support!

After graduation, I plan to attend an optometry school with the intent to become an ophthalmologist. With this career, I hope to help children and adults see clearer, and take care of their health. I also hope to serve in short term trips overseas and within the U.S. to help treat those who don't have access to proper eye care.

This scholarship has allowed me to purse my education since my financial resources are very limited. Thank you so much.

I am grateful for this scholarship because it allows me to focus more attention on academics and enjoying my last year of college, rather than working. Being a first-generation college student, my family has found it difficult navigating the financial aid and higher education system as a whole. Thank you for this opportunity to finish my degree.

Return home to California and work as a registered nurse in a hospital setting. After getting some experience and building my confidence, I plan on specializing in hospice or working with the incarcerated population.

Thank you for choosing me for this scholarship. As I was looking for scholarships and extra financial help, this appeared, and it was a blessing. Being a first-generation college student, recognition and financial support are such an honor. It also is coming from Costco Wholesale, where my family and I enjoy shopping. Once again, thank you for choosing me for this scholarship.

Thank you so much for the Costco Wholesale Scholarship. It means a lot that you are helping further my education. Worrying less about tuition helps me to focus more easily on my studies.

I don’t come from a family with much money, so anything we can get is very helpful. I’m extremely grateful for it and I feel a “thank you” is really the least I can do to repay this amazing offer. Nonetheless, thank you. It really means more to me than one might expect.

Apply to a med school, either in Oregon or back at home in Hawaii.

This additional financial support provided by the Costco Wholesale Scholarship is going to help me focus more on school and less at work. I am truly thankful for this amazing act of generosity to help me further expand on my education.

This year, I have an overload of courses. Although one is yoga, my schedule is tight, leaving me no time to work. I was considering dropping a few classes to be able to find a few working hours and pay the remaining balance on my account. Thanks to the Costco Wholesale Scholarship, I can pay the remaining balance without dropping my English and education classes. Thank you, Costco Wholesale, for supporting Latino students in achieving their academic goals by providing financial aid.

This scholarship allowed me to continue my education and focus on my studies instead of finances. Thank you so much for your generosity!

After graduation, I plan to explore different fields in the nursing practice.

This scholarship was meaningful to me because I am the first in my family to graduate high school and attend college. I also left Texas in faith, trusting God that He would provide my finances for College. And this, to me, is an answer to prayer. Thank you so much again for this gift.

I plan to pursue my master's in counseling.

I’m a nontraditional transfer student, a mother, and a young married woman. I just had my baby a couple months ago and receiving scholarships has facilitated my ability to complete my bachelor’s degree with little to no debt. Before I had my baby, I wanted to be the first in my family to earn a bachelors and make a difference, but now I also want to provide a better life for my child and set an example. This year, I became the first married woman and mother to compete at the Miss Oregon USA pageant, placing into the top 13 as a semifinalist despite the controversy of a married, pregnant woman being “ineligible” to compete. This was even though I had been selected to compete prior to my marriage and pregnancy. Although I didn’t win the state title to compete in Miss USA, I received great feedback and support from my community for advocating on body image and showcasing my story as a daughter of immigrants. I was later appointed to be Ms. Oregon 2023 with American Pageants, Inc. As I grow my platform through pageantry and as an artist, I also hope to continue my studies with a graduate degree and eventually own my own business while continuing to serve my community. My previous involvement includes programs such as the Ford Family Leadership Institute and Portland State University’s New Leadership Oregon, campus leadership positions, and civic engagement projects/events in various Oregon counties. I’m applying to the accelerated Willamette MBA program this fall. The scholarships I’ve received have made attending undergrad and grad school a more attainable goal. So, I want to thank you for your generosity and support. I would not be able to attend a university like Willamette otherwise.

I started working very young, and I’ve been fortunate to have had jobs in which I could positively impact target populations whether it was at risk youth, college students, patients in healthcare settings, migrant working families, native Spanish speakers, etc. Being the first in my family to attend university, I didn’t have a lot of guidance in choosing a career path. I wanted to try everything from education, healthcare, the arts and the list goes on. I found that public health is very intersectional and collaborative. I chose this major because I’ll be able to draw on various experiences combined with my studies to eventually promote population health and community resilience. The more I learned about what public health is, I realized it aligns with my values and is something I’ve ultimately strived for through past community service and work. I believe it is a human right for individuals and communities to have equitable access to resources that will enable them to have long and healthy lives, which is why I became a public health major. I also have the deepest respect for my advisor and mentor, whom has been a big support in completing my studies. There is a saying, somewhere along the lines of it takes a great teacher to spark a fire that keeps burning.

Attend graduate school whether it’s an MBA program or eventually law school. I’d love to own my business.

Thank you for this scholarship. This means a lot to me because it allows me to focus on working additional clinical hours at the hospital, gaining valuable experience needed to enter the nursing profession.

I plan to move to Southern California and work as a pediatric or ICU nurse.

This scholarship helped me a lot! I was able to pay for my semester and enjoy the term without financial stress. Thank you!

I will create a business in this country and also in the country where I was born.

Thank you so much for helping me continue my education as a first-generation, Latinx college student. This scholarship not only removes a burden on my shoulders regarding my finances, but I can obtain higher education for my passion, being a social worker. I am forever grateful for this opportunity again and will continue working hard for my degree.

I plan to obtain more work experience and go into the social work world!

Thank you for choosing me as a recipient of the Costco Wholesale Scholarship. This scholarship is meaningful to me because it showed me how hard I'm working in the classroom. It also shows me that I've been surrounded by great professors and classmates that made this award possible.

As a low-income student and a person of color, this scholarship helped lessen my financial burdens. It was hard for my family to come up with the money for school; only my mom is supporting me is a lot of work for her. Thank you!

After I graduate, I want to get my master's degree and do an internship.

Without the Costco Wholesale Scholarship, I wouldn't have been able to make it through my senior year of college. Thank you so much for everything.

After graduation, I would like to work for a company abroad and potentially receive my masters while living in another country. Thankfully, with this scholarship, I was able to study abroad and realize that I am very happy pursuing what I am doing and that living abroad is realistic to me now. My family and I will forever be grateful for this.

This scholarship has taken a tremendous load off my and my mom's shoulders. We have been trying to find the best way to go about paying for the rest of my schooling. This is a blessing from God, and I cannot thank you enough.

After graduation, I would like to attend medical school to further my knowledge and education. Further into the future, I want to open my own radiology clinic.

This scholarship helps me to be able to continue pursuing my education and get the most out of it. I'm very grateful for the generosity of the Costco Wholesale scholarship from The Alliance, and the opportunity it creates for me! Thank you very much!

After graduation, I plan on going into music studio production or music marketing, something within that area. As a freshman, I'm excited to see all the options I have and explore new things!

This scholarship provides the assistance I needed to pay for my education, relieving some financial burden and allowing me to focus on my studies more fully. Thank you to Costco Wholesale and The Alliance for this scholarship.

After graduation, I plan to go into graduate school to pursue a degree in speech language pathology.

Thank you so much for the Costco Wholesale Scholarship! I wasn't sure how I was going to cover this year's tuition. It's been a challenge as a family to pay for my college tuition with my mother and brother both being in college, as well. This scholarship helps me immensely by ensuring that I can cover a lot of financial needs for this school year. I feel blessed to receive this scholarship and thank you, again, for helping me fund my education.

I chose George Fox University because of the amazing community. I'm thankful to have a great college so close to home. I originally had planned to be a mechanical engineer major, however, because of the classes I took at community college I would have to take 4 years on top of the years I already was in college. I began speaking with the college and then found George Fox University's School of Communication and Design Department. Art had always been a part of my life; however, I hadn't considered the business side of it and how it can be used to make a living. Drawing is something I have done ever since I was little and growing up I discovered the wonders of YouTube and animation. I always wanted to tell stories but was never a good writer, so I told stories visually through drawing or little videos I would take on my parent's video camera. Whatever I chose for a major, I wanted it to be something I enjoyed doing, and since art is a major interest of mine, that is how I ended up choosing illustration and cinematic arts as my interdisciplinary studies focuses.

After I graduate from George Fox University, I hope to use my illustration and cinematic arts degree to apply it professionally to advertising, social media content, or an animation studio. With advertising, I would love to showcase products and use my skills in motion graphics and illustration to create something unique. In terms of social media content, I currently have a job in social media content creation for my College's School of Communication and Design (SOC+D). I have been loving how I can incorporate both illustrations and video to share the amazing SOC+D and sharing the fun events they have. I also have a desire to create stories. Animation allows me to use both my illustration and cinematic arts disciplines to make amazing stories come to life. I have always loved the capabilities in animation that you would not be able to do in real life such as exaggerations of motion and emotion and the visually artistic designs that you can't get with live action. I really want to bring to life unique stories that haven't been seen anywhere else through animation so that more people are aware of these stories that they may not have heard of or seen otherwise. I know that whatever direction I go, God will guide me to the right decision, and who knows, maybe I will get to do all three!

Thank you for your support of my college education. I am a third-year double majoring in philosophy and global cultural studies. I am working toward my goals by taking a career class that helps me find internships before graduating from college. I am currently considering different graduate school programs for the future. I want to work as a journalist on environmental issues and public issues after I get my law degree. I feel challenged by the rigorous academia at Willamette University. I feel confident that I can succeed here academically and professionally. This scholarship has helped me cover some of my tuition fees. I am truly grateful for the support to continue attending college.