subject: Applying for Truman Scholarship [print this page] The Institution receives more than 600 applications for scholarship annually.
To apply for Truman Scholarship, candidates needs to make sure that they meet the certain criteria, as if they don't meet the requirement of the scholarship they would just waste their time in applying for this scheme.
The selection procedure for this scholarship includes:
Legal Requirements:
There are certain legal requirements that needs to be met, they include:
Citizenship:
Before applying, you need to make sure that you are a U.S. citizen or you will be expecting to receive your United States Citizenship at the time the scholarship is being awarded to you.
Educational Requirements:
The applying candidate should have a junior level academic standing or should be a senior resident of Pacific Islands, Puerto Rico or Virgin islands.
Students who are attending graduate school or who have completed their bachelor's degree program are not eligible for this scholarship.
Career Interest:
A student's carrier interest must be in improving nonprofit, Government, and other sectors and institutions that serve the public somehow or in someway, and would be able to give commitment in working for three out of seven years in such sectors.
Extra Curricular Activities:
It is important that the candidate applying for the scholarship have participated in community services or other governmental based extra curricular activities not organized by their respective educational institution.
Besides that, they should have also participated in activities relating to their career and have shown their leadership qualities in such activities.
Grades and coursework:
The candidates applying for the scholarship must have grades and coursework that is accepted at a First class educational institute.
Interview:
After going through all these legal and educational formalities, a student has to pass a challenging interview held by the panel of professional's mainly public servants and educationalists, these panel of judges may be the ex Truman scholars.
The interview comprises of several questions including the background of the candidate, foreign affairs, geography or real life problems that they might face in future regarding to their career along with several verbal mathematical and technical questions.
Successful students for this scholarship program would receive $30,000.00 (U.S.) in order to promote their education. The selected students for this scheme normally qualify for additional governmental grants as well (Only for educational purposes).
