What are the selection criteria?
Answer: After confirming applicants’ eligibility based on citizenship, financial need, full-time status, first year/second year status, and intended major, the Scholarship Selection Committee on each campus will focus on demonstrated academic ability or potential.
Your personal statement is viewed as an important part of the information that will be considered. In addition, each Scholarship Selection Committee will have access to the information you make available when you apply for admission and scholarship consideration as well as your collegiate academic record if you are a current student at SCC or WNCC.
Consistent with NSF’s desire to diversify the Nation’s STEM workforce by identifying and supporting talent from all of the Nation’s communities, the Scholarship Selection Committee will select a diverse pool of scholarship recipients that include:
- Rural as well as urban/suburban students;
- Women as well as men;
- Students from minority populations underrepresented in STEM as well as students from majority populations; and
- First generation students (defined as neither parent nor guardian having earned a bachelor’s degree from a four-year institution).