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Educ->Funding/Grants: Gates Millennium Scholars program has 1,000 scholarships for minority students

Posted on Sunday, December 09 @ 18:54:21 PST

I wanted to alert you to an important opportunity for our youth. The Gates Millennium Scholars program, established in 1999, was initially funded by a 1 billion dollar grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The goal of GMS is to promote academic excellence and to provide an opportunity for outstanding minority students with significant financial need to reach their highest potential.

If you are interested, you must hurry, the deadline for applications is approaching.

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Please encourage outstanding students who have significant financial need and leadership potential for the GMS program. The program selects one thousand students per year as Gates Millennium Scholars. The scholarship supports the costs of attendance, and can be renewed each year during the Scholars undergraduate program. The award is also renewable for graduate study for those who choose one of the seven graduate majors: public health, mathematics, science, computer science, engineering, education, or library science.

Students are eligible to be considered for a GMS scholarship if they:

* Are African American, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian Pacific Islander American or Hispanic American;

* Are a citizen, legal permanent resident or national of the United States ;

* Have attained a cumulative GPA of 3.3 on a 4.0 scale (unweighted);

* Will be entering a U.S. accredited college or university as a full-time, degree-seeking

* freshman in the Fall of 2008;

* Have demonstrated leadership abilities through participation in community service, extracurricular or other activities; and

* Meet the Federal Pell Grant eligibility criteria;

* Have completed and submitted all three required forms (Nominee Personal Information Form, Nominator Form, and Recommender Form) by the deadline.

Nomination forms are available at http://www.gmsp.org.

The Deadlines for Submission of Nomination Materials are as follows:

All paper applications must be postmarked by December 31, 2007.

All online applications must be submitted by January 11, 2008 11:59 p.m. EST.

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