The Sanlahi Scholarship Fund

Evaluation Criteria for Awarding the Sanlahi, Inc. Scholarship

The Sanlahi Scholarship Award is given to a candidate who performs well academically AND who demonstrates need for the scholarship funds.   The scholarship is awarded based upon the following criteria:

academic performance
creativity, mission mindedness, or acts of kindness
heart for learning
activities and interests
financial need

As for your submission itself, we are also looking at your overall presentation. In this regard, we review and evaluate:

Your spelling
Your grammar
Your enthusiasm and your passion for your career
Your neatness

We evaluate your submission fully in all of these areas.

1. Academic Achievement/Performance: Submit your standardized test scores from the SAT, ACT, or other standardized test or other measures of your academic performance. We are particularly interested in your overall academic performance, however best measured.

2. Contribution to Society:

(1) Submit a list of your Extracurricular Activities. We are not looking for the number of activities, but the variety, balance, depth, and overall significance of these activities.

(2) Submit NO MORE THAN three (3) reference letters with NO MORE THAN 2 pages, single-spaced, 12 point type (may be less, such as double-spaced, etc.) from parents (who best know the applicant!), teachers, leaders in programs you’ve been involved in.  These letters must confirm your involvement in the activities you’ve listed and that, to the extent possible, attest to your unique contributions in these areas.

NOTES:

These letters ought not to be mere “character reference” letters. They should attest to specific contributions you have made, specific activities you have engaged in, specific achievements that have benefited you and the community you served.  In other words, these letters are primarily for the sake of acquiring outside confirmation that you have really done or achieved what you claim to have done or achieved in your scholarship application.

3. Future Plans: Submit a personal essay with NO MORE THAN 2 pages, single-spaced, 12 point type (may be less, such as double-spaced, etc.) along these lines:

           a. What I want to do with my life
           b. Why I want to go to college
           c. Why I want to go to the college chosen

4. Other Requirements:

a. Scholarship Photograph: Submit a photograph with your application (optional).

b. Assignment of Rights & Consent to Publish Scholarship Information: Sign and submit the Assignment of Rights and Consent to Publish Scholarship Information form included with the application. By signing this form, you give us the right to publish your photograph (if provided) and basic information regarding your past accomplishments and future plans in the event you are awarded the scholarship.

Deadline: All submissions listed above must be received by email at ttaft2@live.com info@sanlahi.org or by mail at Sanlahi Inc, Attn: Scholarship Committee PO BOX 411433 Melbourne, FL 32940 by March 3, 2023.

Questions: If you have any questions regarding your submission or criteria, please email info@sanlahi.org