INSTRUCTIONS
The form must be completed by the Scholarship Recipient and not family members.
We will no longer accept paper scholarship forms or documentation sent by postal mail or attached to an email. All Scholarship requests must be submitted using this online form process.
PRIORITY OF USE
If you were awarded scholarship funds at the LOCAL level and the STATE level, you must request and receive all LOCAL scholarships before receiving STATE scholarships.
For NATIONAL scholarship recipients, you must exhaust all available LOCAL and STATE scholarships before requesting NATIONAL scholarships.
STATE SCHOLARSHIP REQUESTS
Submissions for State Scholarships will automatically be forwarded to the Minnesota Educational Scholarship Fund, Inc. for review, approval and processing. The Minnesota Educational Scholarshiop Fund, Inc. will confirm with the Local Programs that all available local funds have been exhausted. The Minnesota Educational Scholarship Fund, Inc. may choose to process payments from their scholarship account or to be processed by the Miss America Foundation on behalf of the Minnesota Educational Scholarship Fund, Inc.
NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP REQUESTS
Submissions for National Scholarships will automatically be forwarded to the Minnesota Educational Scholarship Fund.Inc. for review and confirmation that the ducumentation meets the national requirements.
The Minnesota Educational Scholarship Fund, Inc. will verify that the recipient has utilized all Local and State Scholarship funds. We will then provide the recipient with a confirmation letter that the recipient will need to complete the National Scholarship Request.
At the same time, we will provide the instructions for the scholarship recipient to submit the request using the NATIONAL online process for MISS and TEENS. The Minnesota Educational Scholarship Fund, Inc. is no longer able to submit the request on the recipient's behalf. It must be submitted directly by the recipient.
AUTOMATED NOTIFICATION
When you submit your online scholarship request, you will receive an email confirming we have received your submission. As your scholarship request is being processed, you will receive additional emails with the updated status information at the bottom of the email.
QUESTIONS
For questions regarding your Local scholarships, expiration date, scholarship funds available, please contact the Local Program Executive Director where the scholarship was awarded.
If you have any questions regarding the request process, documentation, rules, guidelines, State or National scholarships, please contact the Minnesota Educational Scholarship Fund, Inc. at ginacavanagh@missminnesota.org.
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