Each year, the New England Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers awards scholarships to three (3) high school graduates who will be enrolling in a NEACRAO member institution for the fall semester of that year.  Each high school graduate who is selected is awarded $2,000*.  Each recipient of the scholarship is selected from candidates who are recommended by New England secondary school guidance professionals.

*Upon proof of enrollment at the NEACRAO member institution for the fall semester of that year.

BACKGROUND

In an effort to promote and reward academic excellence and the pursuit of a post-secondary degree, the New England Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers solicits from New England secondary school guidance professionals the names of and recommendations for 2012 high school graduates who will be enrolling in a NEACRAO member institution in August/September of 2012.  CLICK HERE FOR A LIST OF MEMBER INSTITUTIONS.

Applications for this scholarship shall be made available to any student who meets the criteria. The application may be secured from the high school guidance department or from the office of the immediate Past President of NEACRAO (patti.stimpson@unh.edu), who serves as the Chair of the George Coleman Scholarship Committee.

The Committee, which is composed of the most recent five Past Presidents of NEACRAO, will communicate its decision before May 1st to the recipients of the scholarship and to all guidance professionals who made recommendations.

Guidance professionals should make recommendations for the one-time, first-year scholarship based on the following criteria:

1. The potential of the candidate to succeed in a post-secondary academic environment.
2. The high school academic record of the candidate. The applicant must have earned a high school grade point average of at least a 3.00 (based on a 4.0 system—or its otherwise equivalent).

PROCEDURES FOR APPLICATIONS

Scholarship applications must be submitted by February 15th preceding the academic year in which the scholarship will be awarded. The NEACRAO Scholarship Committee will review all scholarship applications that are post-marked by February 15th. In the event that no applications are made for the scholarship in a given year, the award set aside for that year shall be distributed in the following year.

Please click here to print out the application for this year's scholarship and send it back to the address on the bottom of the application.(pdf)

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