Scholarship - DACA eligible, Undergraduates - Rent Hop Apartment
Description:
The RentHop Apartment Scholarship awards up to $2,000 a year to eligible undergraduate students in bachelors and associate degree programs in the US who demonstrate the ambition, diligence, leadership, and entrepreneurial spirit that is central to our company culture.
Apartment hunting can be overwhelming, often compared to a marathon and a sprint at the same time. A successful transaction will require the stamina and endurance to visit possibly dozens of addresses and listings to find the perfect home, while also requiring enough decisiveness and organization to quickly secure a discovered rare gem before losing it to the competition. We have built a platform and service that modernizes many aspects of real estate transactions, beginning with the home search.
To apply, submit an essay under 500 words that concisely answers the question:
Covid-19 has drastically impacted the world and will continue to change how society views our home as a place of living, working, and studying. What was your most memorable experience during the 2020 pandemic, and how has it changed your education, career, and life plans?
All Rules Subject to RentHop Scholarship Board Review
Submit your essay under 500 words using our Scholarship Application Form.
You must be a current student in an eligible undergraduate program or a graduating high school senior, working towards a bachelors degree or associates degree.
Awards include the following:
- Cash scholarship of $1000
- A part-time or full-time internship with RentHop (optional)
The Founder Story, Post-College Moving
Our story begins in 2008 when the two co-founders, Lawrence and Lee, each indepedently had very bad apartment search experiences in NYC. They had only been out of college a few years and wondered why in this day and age, technology had not yet solved or at least greatly reduced the pain of finding a rental home.
In Lee’s case, he called a broker advertising a rent-stabilized apartment on Craigslist. Little did he know he would eventually agree to spend all day with the agent looking at a half dozen apartments, none of which were as attractive as the originally advertised one, and none that were actually rent-stabilized. Within a year of moving to NYC, Lee eventually solved his personal rental problem permanently: he purchased a co-op apartment near Bryant Park where he still lives to this day!
Lawrence was fortunate enough to room with some close college friends during his early years in Manhattan. After a short stint downtown in the Financial District, he shared a condo in Midtown Manhattan with a fellow University of Pennsylvania alumni. Eventually, it was time for Lawrence to find his own studio. However, despite knowing exactly where in the city he wanted to live, he still jumped through far too many hoops only to move one block from where he had lived previously. Like Lee, he kept wondering at every step along the way why things were so painful.
Additional Details:How to Apply: Submit your essay under 500 words using our Scholarship Application Form.
For any questions, please contact college-scholarship@renthop.com
Please see the scholarship terms, conditions, guidelines, and policies for more information.
You must apply using your school email address. If your school does not provide one or does not allow students to send/receive external emails via the school affiliated email address, then you may still apply using your personal email. We will ultimately need to verify your eligibility upon submission via a PDF file of your acceptance letter or proof of enrollment to the Undergraduate or Associates program.
Application deadlines (Winner notified within 30 days of each deadline):
- April 30, 2020
- August 31, 2020