Fiesta de las Estrellas

I'm so grateful for your generosity. Without your scholarship support, I wouldn't be able to take advantage of the many opportunities UC San Diego has to offer. I hope that one day I will be able to give back and help someone as much as you have helped me. - Rachel Torres, UC San Diego Hispanic Scholarship Council Chancellor's Scholar

Through the UCSD Hispanic Scholarship Council (HSC), you can help a student like Adrian realize otherwise unattainable dreams. With generous donor support, HSC is able to create educational opportunities for young Latino men and women of great promise but limited resources in our region.

A $50,000 Matching Challenge
provided by the estate of Charmaine and Maurice Kaplan

All new and increased gifts and sponsorships* for the 2012 Fiesta de las Estrellas will be matched. If we can raise the full matching amount, we will add another $100,000 to the total raised for scholarships!

*First-time or increased gifts from 2011 will be matched 1:1.

A Celebration of Hispanic Achievement and Promise

HSC created an annual event to raise scholarship dollars at the University of California, San Diego. Thanks to our sponsors and participants, the UCSD Hispanic Scholarship Council's Fiesta de las Estrellas has raised $1 million toward undergraduate scholarships since its founding in 1998, providing support to seventy eight stellar young men and women. Let's do more.

Opening Doors for Young Latino Scholars

Hispanic Scholarship Council scholarships are a part of the UCSD Chancellor's Scholars Program. The Chancellor's Scholarship is awarded to outstanding entering freshmen on the basis of academic achievement and other factors, including financial need, extracurricular and community activities, previous educational environment, and first-generation college attendance. This is a four-year award of $20,000, paid in the amount of $5,000 annually.

HSC scholarships are specifically earmarked for Chancellor's Scholars of Hispanic heritage** who demonstrate financial need, and/or graduates of The Preuss School of any ethnicity who choose to attend UCSD. (Located on the UCSD campus, roughly 90% of Preuss School students come from neighborhoods south of Interstate 8; approximately 60% are Hispanic.)

I am very excited for the opportunities that the coming years offer me and I assure you that your generous support has not, and will not, be forgotten. You have placed a great deal of faith in me. I promise that as I grow and continue to succeed in personal and academic matters, I will work to make you proud and live up to the aspirations that were in your mind when you selected me to be a scholarship recipient.
- Adam Ramirez, history major and UC San Diego Hispanic Scholarship Council Chancellor's Scholarship recipient

This year, undergraduate students will pay an estimated $28,000 per year for fees, on campus room and board, books and supplies, transportation and other living expenses, which means a UC San Diego degree today costs more than $100,000 -- daunting for any family, and virtually impossible for others without incurring deep debt and forgoing enriching college experiences such as student government, sports and campus events.

Your support creates an opportunity for a student to choose UCSD, while populating our campus and community with the very kinds of young people we strive to attract: The Stars. Join us.

** Hispanic scholarship recipients will be chosen through the process of "student-to-fund matching." From each year's group of scholarship recipients, selected with non-preferential criteria, a student who matches the award amount and criteria of the Hispanic Scholarship Council will be given this scholarship. Recipients of the Hispanic Scholarship Council's scholarship will therefore receive aid that is no more and no better than other, equally meritorious students. With this methodology, it cannot be assured that one or more eligible students will be designated each year because the pool may not contain students qualifying for the Hispanic Scholarship Council award, but undisbursed funds in a given year may be held for award in a subsequent year.

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