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• Do you allow scholarships to be deferred? If so, are there any established terms or conditions for deferring? We do allow deferrals for students that are participating in a planned gap year program or religious mission. These deferrals are typically for 1 or 2 years. In the last 5 years we've only had 2 deferrals that…

  in Scholarship policies Comment by LizMcClure July 2022
• We are pretty similar to the above responses. Before COVID, we met in person and I would pull up a master spreadsheet on our projector that had the students ranked by average score. I would also print a copy of the spreadsheet for them to have right in front of them. I would provide them with a simplified version of the…

  in Scholarship Evaluation Comment by LizMcClure March 2022
• For a long time we required a schedule or other document that listed their name, school name, total credits, and student ID number. It was a huge pain point for us with getting students to send us a document that included everything. I think there are some schools that legitimately don't have all of that information in one…

  in What documentation are recipients asked to provide to verify enrollment & pay scholarships? Comment by LizMcClure October 2021
• We launch January 1 every year and deadline is the first Monday of March, which is the 7th this year. Considering opening it in mid-December after some feedback that our college students prefer to apply to scholarships over their winter break from classes but just depends on how quickly we can get all the pieces together.…

  in How long is your scholarship application open? Comment by LizMcClure October 2021
• I appreciate that I am not the only one that struggles with this! While I do feel that with the cost of attendance so high, most of the students in our region would qualify as having a financial need, it does always feel like we're struggling to find the right students while keeping the burden of the application as low as…

  in Scholarships -- Determining Financial Need Comment by LizMcClure February 2021
• @AudraClodfelter @LaurieAbildso Our review committee for our financial need based scholarships usually has 6-8 folks on it, when we review we split the main committee into two subcommittees - one to review high school applicants and one to review college applicants. Back before the time of UA we always thought of our…

  in Scholarship Evaluation Committee Best Practices Comment by LizMcClure February 2021