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Important Scholarship Dates, Information & Websites
Scholarships Available
to Undergraduate Students:
Jack Kent Cooke
Foundation Undergraduate Scholarships
- Available Scholarships: Up to 60
- Amounts: Varying, covers tuition, room and board, required
fees, and books for the remainder of the Jack Kent Cooke Scholar’s undergraduate
degree, not exceeding $30,000 annually.
- Application Information: Students must be nominated by the
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Faculty Representative at his/her institution.
- Application Deadline: The Foundation will begin accepting applications
on December 1, 2002; the receipt deadline is February 1, 2003.
- For more information:
www.jackkentcookefoundation.org/scholar/index.html
Harry S. Truman Scholarship
Foundation Scholarships
- Available Scholarships: 75-80
- Amount: $30,000
- Application Information: Candidates must be nominated by their
institution’s Truman Faculty Representatives. Candidates are selected
in their junior years. Truman Scholarships are awarded to students preparing
for careers in government, the non-profit sector or elsewhere in public
service.
- Application Deadline: January 27, 2003
- For more information: www.truman.gov
The Morris K. Udall
Foundation Scholarships
- Available Scholarships: Approximately 80; 30 honorable mention
awards
- Amount: Up to $5,000 for Scholarships; $350 for honorable mentions
- Application Information: Scholarships are available to two
groups of students: juniors and seniors in fields related to the environment;
and to Native American and Alaska Natives who are college sophomores
or juniors in fields related to health care or tribal policy. Two-year
and four-year institutions are eligible to nominate a total of six students
from either or both categories. Students must be nominated by their
college’s Udall faculty representative; direct applications are not
accepted.
- Application Deadline: March 3, 2003
- For more information: www.udall.gov/p_scholarship.htm
Coca-Cola Scholars
Foundation
- Available Scholarships: Up to 400
- Amounts: $1,000
- Application Information: Nominees may be first and/or second
year students planning to continue their education at a two-year institution.
Nomination materials are sent to the Financial Aid Offices at all two-year,
degree-granting institutions in the United States in February. Each
college campus may nominate two students for this scholarship program.
- Application Deadline: May 31, 2003
- For more information:
www.coca-colascholars.org/programs.html
Scholarships Available
to Graduate Students:
Rhodes Scholarships
- Available Scholarships: 32
- Amounts: Covers all educational costs for two years’ study
at Oxford University in England, includes maintenance allowance and
funds for travel to and from Oxford.
- Application Information: Application forms are posted on the
Rhodes website in July and may be obtained from campus Rhodes Scholar
representatives in August.
- Application Deadline: Each October
- For more information: www.rhodesscholar.org
Woodrow Wilson Fellowships
- Available Scholarships: 85 (Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships)
- Amounts: Covers full graduate tuition and required fees for
the first year of graduate study and includes a stipend of $17,500.
- Application Information: At the time of application, students
must be college seniors or college graduates applying for graduate school
admission. Requests for applications must be placed through www.woodrow.org/mellon/.
- Application Deadline: GRE Test Deadline: December 1, 2002.
- Application Request Deadline: December 4, 2002.
- Completed Application RECEIPT Deadline: December 18, 2002.
- For more information: www.woodrow.org
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