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$75,000 Student Loan Payoff Contest - Essence

Expired$75,000 Student Loan Payoff Contest

You could be one of the 3 people chosen for the grown-ish & broke: Student Loan Payoff!

If you are a current college student or an alum with loans, you have got to enter this incredible contest and may even end up debt free.

3 winners will receive:
● Money towards your student loans
● Trip for you and a guest to ESSENCE Festival in
New Orleans

First Prize

There is one (1) Grand Prize available to be won. Grand Prize consists of a payment to the winner’s school or directly to the bank/financial institution holding winner’s qualified student loan. Loan payment will be for the balance of the winner’s loan principal up to a maximum payment of $75,000. Any unused amount up to the maximum will be forfeit. The total maximum ARV of the Grand Prize is: $75,000.

Other Prizes

There is one (1) First Prize available to be won. First Prize consists of a payment to the winner’s school or directly to the bank/financial institution holding winner’s qualified student loan. Loan payment will be for the balance of the winner’s loan principal up to a maximum payment of $50,000. Any unused amount up to the maximum will be forfeit. The total maximum ARV of the First Prize is: $50,000.

There is one (1) Second Prize available to be won. Second Prize consists of a payment to the winner’s school or directly to the bank/financial institution holding winner’s qualified student loan. Loan payment will be for the balance of the winner’s loan principal up to a maximum payment of $25,000. Any unused amount up to the maximum will be forfeit. The total maximum ARV of the Second Prize is: $25,000.

There are three (3) Finalist Prizes available to be won. Each Finalist Prize consists of a trip to the 2020 ESSENCE Festival in New Orleans, LA for winner and one (1) guest from July 3 - 5, 2020. Finalist Prize includes:
Round-trip, coach-class airfare for two (2) from a major airport within the US to New Orleans, LA;
Two (2) nights hotel accommodations at a hotel of Sponsor’s choice; and
Admission to the 2020 ESSENCE Festival.
The total ARV of the Finalist Prize: $3,000 each.

Entry Form

http://www.essence.com/grownish

Winners List

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During the Contest Period, eligible participants must visit www.essence.com/grownish (the “Contest Website”), complete the entry form in its entirety including their contact information, student loan balance as of the time of entry, the name of the school they attend(ed), and either (i) upload a video up to 60 seconds in length where they describe how paying off their debt could help them live their dreams (a “Video”), or (ii) upload a photo of themselves (a “Photo”) and provide an essay of up to 300 words describing how paying off their debt could help them live their dreams (an “Essay”), and submit as instructed (the “Entry”).

Each Entry must include an original Essay and Photo or Video. Entries submitted with an Essay, Photo or Video that has already been submitted will be disqualified.

Restrictions/Eligibility

The Contest is open to legal residents of the 50 United States, including the District of Columbia, who are age 18 or older at the time of entry. Void in Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, outside the U.S., and wherever else prohibited by law. Employees of ESSENCE Communications, Inc. (the "Sponsor"), Freeform, US Sweepstakes and Fulfillment Co. (the “Contest Administrator”) and their respective subsidiaries, affiliates, advertising and promotion agencies, and the immediate family members (spouses, parents, children and siblings and their respective spouses) of, and those living in the same household of each, are not eligible to enter. Contest is subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations.

There is a limit of one (1) Entry per person per email address. All Entries must be received between Wednesday, February 19, 2020 at 12:00:01 AM ET and Thursday, April 30, 2020 at 11:59:59 PM ET. All entries become the property of the Sponsor and will not be acknowledged or returned.

Once an Entry is submitted it cannot be modified by an Entrant. Sponsor is not responsible for lost, late, incomplete, illegible, garbled, inaccurate, invalid, misdirected, undelivered, or delayed Entries. No altered or incomplete submissions will be accepted.

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