Application for Educational Scholarship

IMPORTANT NOTE:

Applicants must be a citizen of the United States and have resided in Tarrant, Johnson or Parker County, Texas for a period of at least one (1) year prior to filing the application with the Girls Service League and be attending or applying for acceptance to an accredited Texas college or university. GSL scholarships are for tuition only. High school and returning college students must have a minimum 3.0 GPA. Trade schools are not applicable for this scholarship process (applicant must be applying for an undergraduate degree to a two (2) or four (4) year Texas accredited college or university). Please refer to the announcement page on www.girlsserviceleague.org

REQUIRED DOCUMENTS:

• Completed and signed application by the due date (incomplete or applications sent after Friday, January 20, 2023, will be rejected)
• Supporting income verification document. Include the SAR report generated from your completed FAFSA.
• Photograph–(4” X 6” picture of the applicant only; with name and address written on the back)
• Information and photo release form
• Completed and signed CRITERIA FOR EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIPS form
• Official school transcript
• Essay explaining your need for the scholarship and how you feel college will help you reach your life goals.
• Letters of recommendation should be from contacts listed on the application.
• Proof of residency (hard copy of utility bill or rent/lease document. Phone bills are not acceptable.

During the processing of your application, you will be contacted by a member of the scholarship committee for further information and/or to schedule a personal interview.

List only two contacts below for your letters of recommendation – do not list family members. Please give your contact the Letters of Recommendation packet, which can be downloaded and printed from our website here. You must notify us immediately upon learning that a contact is not available to serve as a reference for you and provide an alternate. It is important for you to stay in communication with your contacts to make sure they mail the Letters of Recommendation to us on time. The deadline for these is January 20, 2023. Please remember they must be mailed directly from them to Girls Service League.

Please fill out two (2) references from any of the following categories (references may not be family members).

I authorize Girls Service League, Inc. to verify the information provided on this form for the purpose of processing my scholarship application for consideration of an undergraduate degree award. In signing this document, I also acknowledge that I have read the application in its entirety and understand that my application will be rejected if all required information and documents are not supplied by the due date of Thursday, January 20, 2023.