Scholarship: Presidential Scholarship for First-Year Students

Description

For additional information about the Presidential Scholarship or the James Millikin Honors Program, please visit this link: Presidential Scholarship or email the Honors Director, Dr. Michael Hartsock, mhartsock@millikin.edu.

Application Instructions

Student must submit:

• Resume including evidence of academic, creative and/or service accomplishments
   
• Letter of Recommendation from at least one high school teacher from a core academic subject (math, science, English, etc) and up to two others they would like to include
   
• An essay, approximately (3-4 pages) responding to the following prompt:
  
  As you probably know, scholarship essay questions run the gamut from the banal (What did you do last summer?) to the bizarre (Which species of lungfish do you find most inspiring?).  This year, The Millikin Honors Program is asking YOU to write the essay question for the Presidential Scholarship.  We are looking for essay questions that give students a chance to demonstrate intellectual curiosity and creative approaches to problem solving.  First, compose an unique essay prompt that you believe does just that. Be sure to state the prompt you create at the beginning of your essay, because the quality of your prompt will be included in the essay evaluation.  Then, compose a 3-4 page essay in response to your prompt.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

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