Miss America

The Miss America  pageant is a long-standing competition which awards scholarships to young women from the 50 states plus Washington, D.C.,Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The winner of the national pageant is awarded the title of "Miss America" for one year. The competition is held in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

In January 2006, the pageant moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, where it remained for seven years before returning to Atlantic City, New Jersey. The pageant presents itself as a "scholarship pageant", and the primary prizes for the winner and her runners-up are scholarships to the institution of her choice. The Miss America Scholarship program, along with its local and state affiliates, is the largest provider of scholarship money to young women in the United States and in the world. In 2006 the program made available more than $45 million in cash and scholarship assistance.Since most of the contestants are college graduates already, or on the verge of graduating, most of their prize money is devoted to graduate schoolor professional school, or to pay off student loans for courses already taken.

The current Miss America is Mallory Hagan from New York, who was crowned the winner on January 12, 2013, at the 92nd pageant.

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