{"id":306,"date":"2016-11-30T07:24:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T12:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssunaa.com\/chapters\/washington\/?page_id=306"},"modified":"2023-11-07T07:48:19","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T12:48:19","slug":"scholarship","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ssunaa.com\/chapters\/washington\/about\/scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholarship Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-625\" src=\"https:\/\/ssunaa.com\/chapters\/washington\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/scholarship.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ssunaa.com\/chapters\/washington\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/scholarship.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ssunaa.com\/chapters\/washington\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/scholarship-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 85vw, 600px\" \/>The District of Columbia&nbsp;Alumni Chapter of Savannah State University National Alumni Association Scholarship Award is provided annually to deserving, graduating high school seniors and college students residing in the Metro-Washington, DC area, in need of financial assistance to attend Savannah State University.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"maxbutton-1 maxbutton maxbutton-scholarship-application-download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ssunaa.com\/chapters\/washington\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/SSUNAA-DC-Scholarship-Application-2024.pdf\" download=\"\"><span class='mb-text'>DOWNLOAD<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">CRITERIA<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">To qualify for this award, students must qualify for financial aid from Savannah State University and have at least a C+ average during their high school\/college career<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Financial assistance up to a maximum of $2,000.00 per year will be awarded for entering freshmen and up to $1,500.00 maximum per year for a returning student will be awarded. An additional $500.00 (entering freshman and returning student) maximum will be awarded to students maintaining a 3.5 or higher GPA, and\/or scoring a combined math and verbal (critical reading) score of 1000 or above on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), or a composite score of 21 or higher on the American College Test (ACT).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Continuing college students must reapply for the scholarship by March 31 of each year.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">SELECTION PROCESS<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Students must submit a completed&nbsp;application, along with an initial essay of at least 350 words.&nbsp;Each scholarship candidate will be interviewed by the chapter\u2019s Scholarship Committee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Students awarded a scholarship will be asked to give a five-minute oral presentation at one of the chapter\u2019s monthly meetings. Every effort will be made to present the award to the recipient at the Senior Awards Ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The District of Columbia&nbsp;Alumni Chapter of Savannah State University National Alumni Association Scholarship Award is provided annually to deserving, graduating high school seniors and college students residing in the Metro-Washington, DC area, in need of financial assistance to attend Savannah State University. CRITERIA To qualify for this award, students must qualify for financial aid from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssunaa.com\/chapters\/washington\/about\/scholarship\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scholarship Program&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":18,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-306","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssunaa.com\/chapters\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssunaa.com\/chapters\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssunaa.com\/chapters\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssunaa.com\/chapters\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssunaa.com\/chapters\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssunaa.com\/chapters\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssunaa.com\/chapters\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/306\/revisions\/1015"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssunaa.com\/chapters\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssunaa.com\/chapters\/washington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}