Highly Competitive Scholarship Programs
Please help identify qualified students for the following scholarship programs either by referring them to Danny Aynes in the Career Services or call extension 23588. Application information for each of these programs is available online at www.eou.edu/career. Look under the "Faculty & Staff" button.
Because these are highly competitive selection processes, it behooves us to identify candidates with potential in their freshman and sophomore years. Students can then make choices that will enhance their chances for success.
British Marshall Scholarship www.acu.ac.uk/marshall
Up to 40 awards are made each year for two years of study in any discipline leading to the award of a British University degree. Awards on the average are about $20,000 per year. Candidates must be U.S. citizens, not have reached their 26th birthday by October 1, hold a bachelor's degree by the time of participation, and have a minimum g.p.a. of 3.7. Applications are due in early October.
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship www.act.org/goldwater
Up to 300 scholarships of up to $7000 annually made to juniors and seniors who have "outstanding potential and interest to pursue careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, and those engineering disciplines that contribute significantly to technological advances." Students planning such professional careers as medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and education are not eligible. Candidates must be matriculated sophomore or juniors during the 2001-02 academic year, have a g.p.a. of at least 3.0 (competitive applicants usually have g.p.a.'s of near 4.0), have a class standing in the upper fourth, and be a U.S. citizen, resident alien, or a U.S. national. Applications must be submitted by February 1.
Rhodes Scholarship www.rhodescholar.org
Thirty-two awards are made in the U.S. each year for full support for up to three years of study at Oxford University. Candidates must be unmarried U.S. citizens, age 18 but not yet 24 on October 1 in the year of application. They must earn a bachelors degree prior to enrollment at Oxford. Candidates are judged on four standards: "literary and scholastic attainments; fondness for and success in sports; truth, courage, devotion to duty, sympathy for and protection of the weak, kindliness, unselfishness and fellowship; moral force of character and instincts to lead, and to take and interest in one's fellow beings." Applications are due at the state level in early October.
Truman Scholarship www.truman.gov
About 85 scholarships are awarded to junior-level students who: "have extensive records of public and community service, are committed to careers in government or elsewhere in the public sector, wish to influence public policies, have outstanding leadership potential, and possess intellectual strength and analytical abilities." Scholars selected as juniors are eligible to receive $3000 for the senior year and undergraduate education and $27,000 for graduate studies. Candidates must be full time students, committed to a career in public service, in the upper quarter of class standing, and be a U.S. citizen or U.S. national. Applications are due by the end of January.
Morris K. Udall Scholarship www.udall.gov
Up to 75 scholarships are made on the basis of merit to two groups of students:
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Those who are college sophomores or juniors in the current academic year, have outstanding potential, and intend to pursue careers in environmental public policy; and
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Native Americans and Alaska Natives students who are college sophomores or juniors in the current academic year, have outstanding potential, and intend to pursue careers in health care or tribal public policy.
Applicants must have at least a "B" average and be in the upper fourth of his/her class. The Udall Scholarship Foundation must receive applications by mid-February.
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation http://www.jackkentcookefoundation
The Foundation is devoted to undergraduate resources to students transferring from two-year schools to four-year schools to pursue a bachelor's degree. Up to 25 scholarships are awarded in the spring to be used for the academic year. Awards vary up to a maximum of $30,000 annually for tuition, room and board and fees for the remainder of the scholar's undergraduate degree. Candidates selected on the basis of merit, academic ability, will to succeed, leadership, volunteerism, critical thinking, and appreciation for arts and humanities. Additionally financial need is a consideration. To be eligible a nominee must be enrolled in an accredited institution, be a junior in the fall of the award year and have demonstrated academic achievement with a cumulative GPA of at least a 3.0. Applications are due early February.
James Madison Memorial Fellowship http://www.jamesmadison.com
The James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation annually awards at least one graduate-level fellowship in every state. James Madison Junior Fellowships are available to college seniors who are preparing to become secondary school teachers of history, government, and social studies. The Foundation also offers Senior Fellowships to in-service teachers of these subjects who desire to earn a master's degree. Fellowships offer
up to $24,000 in financial support. Applications are due March 1 annually.
Contact Information for Student Affairs
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