Are you (or do you know) an API GLBT youth going to college/graduate school? The Tang Scholarship helps API GLBT youth to proudly achieve educational pursuits and dreams with a scholarship award of up to $15,000/year. This scholarship is renewable for a maximum of three years (a total of four years) if the student annually meets the renewal requirements.
Eligibility:
- Self-identified as Asian/Pacific Island; (at least 25% API ancestry); (Priority will be given to those self-identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, and involved in the GLBT community);
- Graduate from a high school in one of the nine Bay Area counties; Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara County, Napa, Sonoma or Solano;
- Scholarship will be awarded for Full-Time (minimum 12 units for all semesters/quarters) enrollment in an accredited two, four-year university or graduate institution; (college, university, community college, or vocational school);
- United States citizen or legal resident;
- Demonstrated financial hardship;
- Demonstrated academic promise;
- Minimum grade point average 3.0 (on a scale of 4.0);
- Be between the age of 17 and 25 on 30 April
Application deadline is 30 April 2009
Click here to download an application:
http://www.sbqa.com/TangScholarshipApplication2009.pdf