Financial Aid Outside Scholarships

JACL General Scholarship

Who Can Apply:

undergraduate and graduate JACL members

Application Deadline:

2010/04/01

Minimum GPA Required:

Amount of Award:

Varies

Description:

The JACL began its National Scholarship and Awards Program in 1946. The program currently offers over 30 awards, with an annual total of over $60,000 in scholarships to qualified students nationwide. The National Scholarship and Awards Program offer scholarships to students at the entering freshman, undergraduate, graduate, law, financial need and creative & performing arts. All scholarships are one-time awards.

Enrollment Requirement:

Every applicant must be an active National JACL member at either an Individual or Student/Youth Level. Parent membership will not meet this requirement. Applications are available on our website http://www.jacl.org/join.html. For more information about membership categories, please contact the JACL Membership Department at National Headquarters at mbr@jacl.org. Applicants must be planning to attend full time at a college, university, trade school, business school, or any other institution of higher learning within the United States at the undergraduate or graduate school level in the fall of 2009. Students deferring enrollment will not qualify for the 2009 scholarship program. Applicants may apply under only 1 scholarship category. Entering Freshman applicants must be high school seniors. Creative & Performing Arts applicants cannot be professional artists. Past recipients of JACL scholarships or awards are limited to a total of two awards. Go to www.jacl.org to apply

Area of Study:

Contact Information

Address:


Japanese American Citizens League
JACL National Scholarship Program
Seattle, WA
98104

Email:

jacl@jacl.org

Website:

www.jacl.org

Phone:

(415) 921-5225 

Fax: