o Non-Traditional Student scholarships are given to students who are more than 22 years old, married, OR a single parent. Students applying for technical, occupational, and apprenticeship programs are especially encouraged to apply.
First Name: Last Name:
Email: Phone number:
Address:
How many people live in your home, at this address?
Male/Female: Age:
Please check the appropriate box regarding your total family’s ANNUAL INCOME:
o Under $20,000
o $20,001 - $40,000
o $40,001 - $60,000
o $60,001 - $80,000
o $80,001 - $100,000
o Over $100,001
(For Leadership Applicants only)
Mother’s Name:
Employer:
Hourly Wage:
Father’s Name:
Employer:
Hourly Wage:
Full or Part-time:
High School Grade Point Average (GPA) on a 4-Point scale:
Graduating High School:
Month and Year of Graduation or GED:
Please list any other school where you were a student in the last 4 years:
Please list the colleges or universities where you have applied or are planning to apply for the 2009 - 2010 academic year.
What will most likely be your major area(s) of study?
Please provide short answers, no more than 1 paragraph, for EACH of the following questions. In these questions, the committee is interested in how well you know yourself, not your ability to write.
1) What are your future plans? How is this major related to your future plans?
2) How do you spend your time? Please describe your daily and weekly activities, including any important events, your home life, community service, extracurricular programs, jobs, hobbies, or sports.
3) What do you feel are your areas of strength – where you have the most skills, knowledge or abilities?
4) What do you feel are your challenges – where you need the most help, attention or additional resources?
FAMILY REFERENCE FORM
Applicant’s First and Last Name:
Family Reference First and Last Name:
Relation to Applicant:
Note to applicant: Please have your family reference answer the following question and sign and date this note. We encourage your family reference to use his or her own words to answer this question and sign and date this note at the bottom. We will accept handwritten notes, in either Hmong or English.
What are you most proud of about [applicant name]?
Family Reference Signature and Date:
Applications must be postmarked by November 15, 2008, or hand delivered to Hmong American Partnership's main office by 5:00 p.m. on November 17, 2008.
Each application package must include all items listed below:
q Application Form
q A personal essay (approximately 600 words) related to ONE of the following topics:
a. What does it mean to be Hmong American?
b. What is one big challenge you’ve faced, and what have you learned from it?
c. What does it mean to be a leader, and how will you be a leader?
q Family Reference Form (or a signed, personal note from a family member that responds to this question: What are you most proud of in your child?)
q A personal letter of reference that can be from a counselor, school administrator or a community source, to whom you are not immediately related (such as an agency where you have volunteered); and
q A copy of your current school transcript (Leadership Applicants Only)
Mail or deliver applications to:
Educational Endowment Scholarship Fund
Hmong American Partnership
1075 Arcade Street
Saint Paul,
MN
55106
Phone: (651) 495-9160
For more information, please call MaiKia Vang at (651) 495-1529 or maikiav@hmong.org.