1. The purpose of this program is to provide freshman year
college scholarships to high school graduating students who are
either a son or daughter of an active, retired or deceased AAFES
employee, a son or daughter of assigned military personnel, or work
for AAFES themselves. This program is consistent with the AREA
objective of community involvement.
Click
herefor a listing of scholarship awards since program
initiation. Click
herefor the AREA APPLICATION FOR SCHOLARSHIP form.
GENERAL CRITERIA
2. Eligibility for AREA scholarships is outlined in
the PERSONAL ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA and STUDENT ACADEMIC CRITERIA
sections below. Once eligibility is met, the five factors listed on
the Application for Scholarship form are scored to determine the
ranking for scholarship awards.
The five factors are:
Scholastic Honors & Other Recognition Received.
(Section III-1)
School Activity Participation. (Section III-2)
Outside Activities, Hobbies and Special Talents.
(Section III-3)
Essay: Tell us why you feel you should be awarded a
scholarship. (Section IV)
Letters of Recommendation. (Section V)
3. The completed Application
for Scholarship form with all requested information must be
received by AREA VIA EMAIL not later than March 31, 2010, the
application deadline. Email the application and attachments (Scanned
if necessary) to
gall.tom@verizon.net. Application by a method other than
email requires approval of the AREA scholarship program director. To
contact the AREA scholarship program director: By email at
gall.tom@verizon.net or by surface mail at AREA Scholarship
Committee, 7045 Rembrandt Dr. Plano, TX 75093 or by phone at
972-862-8099.
PERSONAL ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: (Must be met on January 1, 2010)
They must be natural, legally adopted children or custodial
stepchildren of active, retired or deceased AAFES or assigned
military personnel.
Military retirees must have retired while on assignment with
AAFES.
A deceased parent must have died while an active or retired
AAFES employee or military assignee.
One of the parents must have had at least twelve consecutive
months of AAFES employment, or in the case of military
personnel, AAFES assignment. For a deceased parent, the
twelve-month employment requirement must have been met at the
time of death.
Twelve consecutive months of AAFES employment, if applying
on their own behalf.
Active membership in AREA, if retired. An active member is
one who is a member of the national AREA organization (not just
a member of an AREA Chapter) and whose dues payments are
current. Click here
for AREA membership information.
STUDENT ACADEMIC CRITERIA:
5. Students must...
Be in their senior year of high school and scheduled to
graduate in calendar year 2010.
Have a score of at least 1,750 on the SAT or 25 on the ACT.
Plan on attending an accredited college, university, or one of
the U.S. military academies for undergraduate studies in calendar
year 2010. AREA scholarships are not awarded for participation in
non-academic and certificate programs.
SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS:
6. Each year, the Scholarship Committee recommends the number of
awards and their amounts to the AREA Board of Directors based upon
available funds. For calendar year 2010, the AREA Board approved up
to 12 scholarships for a program total of $36,500. Individual
scholarship amounts are 2/$5,000, 1/$4,000 and 9/$2,500.
7. Scholarship amounts can be used to offset costs for academic
related expenditures only. Such expenditures include tuition, fees,
books, computers and software, and other expenses. The money cannot
be used for personal expenses, housing or transportation. Any
balance left at the end of the term may be carried over and used to
offset similar expenses during subsequent terms.
SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE RESPONSIBILITIES:
8. The Scholarship Committee consists of seven members who are
responsible for:
Publicizing the availability of the scholarships through the
Exchange Post, AREA Newsletter and other media.
Administering the scholarship program by processing all
applications, and identifying those which are eligible or
ineligible.
Evaluating and scoring the eligible applications.
Making award recommendations to the AREA Board.
Announcing scholarship awardees in the Exchange Post, AREA
Newsletter and other media.
SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION PROCEDURES:
9. You may obtain an application form by clicking
here or send a written request to the Scholarship Committee,
7045 Rembrandt Dr. Plano, TX 75093. You can also send an e-mail
request to
gall.tom@verizon.net . The application submission
period begins January 1, 2010 and ends March 31, 2010.
10. Completed applications with required documentation must be
submitted on line via email to the Scholarship Committee at
gall.tom@verizon.net no later than March 31, 2010, the
application deadline. Time extensions are not normally made. The
eligibility of each applicant will be reviewed and validated. It is
the responsibility of each applicant to make sure that all required
information is received by the application deadline.
PROCESSING AND SCORING PROCEDURES:
11. As they are received, each applications and corresponding
documentation are reviewed for eligibility.
12. Each eligible applicant’s file is forwarded to Scholarship
Committee members. The members score applications according to the
ranking factors outlined in paragraph 2. Scores are aggregated by
applicant and ranked to determine awards. Awards are made from
highest to lowest scores until the number of board-approved awards
is met.
SCHOLARSHIP AWARD DATE:
13. Scholarship awards for 2010 will be announced by May 20th 2010.
Student profiles and other scholarship information will be featured
in Exchange Post and in promotional material.
14. By making application, the applicant allows AREA the use of
his/her photo, biographic and application information in
publications designed to promote the AREA Scholarship Program.
Publication examples are the Exchange Post, the AREA Newsletter and
the AREA Scholarship booklet featuring scholarship recipients. If an
applicant is under 18, permission from the parent or guardian of the
applicant allowing the use of information enumerated above must be
provided. Scholarship applications and other submitted materials
sent to AREA becomes the property of AREA and will not be returned.
