FAQs
• What is ESE’s Scholarship all about?
- The purpose of ESE’s Scholarship is hoping to assist a student individual to keep progress and continuing his/her higher education based on his/her merit including and not limited to education, community, and personal background.
• What are the qualifications to receive the Scholarship?
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- The individual must currently reside in Vietnam as a permanent resident or a citizen. (Required verifiable information)
- The individual must have a good to excellent grade performance in school with proof from school report card and is currently a freshman or preparing for the first year in an accredited college or university. (Required verifiable information)
- The individual must at least involve in some form of community, public or school extracurricular activities. (Required verifiable information)
- The individual might or might not have the financial difficulty to continue higher education (whether currently or in the future). Individual with financial difficulty will be assessed above others together with the previous three qualifications.
• How do I apply for it?
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- Download an online application to your personal computer and fill the application out as clearly and completely as possible.
- Write a short personal introduction about yourself and your qualifications.
- Pick one of the 5 topics to write a long essay stating your personal opinion and insight. Plagiarism is prohibited.
- Send in the application together with your written essay either through electronic or mail.
• How often is the Grant?
- This is the first year we propose the Grant to the Vietnamese community. If we continue to have support and/or see the need to have more frequent Grants, we will decide whether to continue the progress and how often we would organize them.
• Where does the money come from?
- The majority of the current fund is coming from the ESE’s Staffs. We do, however, accept contributions from other ESE or Paltalk members as well as from other patrons who have the same vision and hope for the young Vietnamese students’ achieving higher education and better future.
• Who can contribute/donate?
- Anyone
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• How do I donate to the fund?
- One of the recommended methods to contribute is through PayPal, an online money services. For how to use PayPal, please read on.
Donation through your PayPal account: http://tienganh.net/showthread.php?t=2583
Donation from Vietnam: http://tienganh.net/showthread.php?t=4938
- Another method is through check or Money Order or Cash in the mail.
Visit: http://tienganh.net/showthread.php?t=2604If you decide to send a check, please make sure that you have the fund in your account.
If you decide to give cash, please keep it under $20 to avoid cash in the mail.
• What form of money do you accept?
- Please see 7b.
• Can I donate by foreign money other than U.S. Dollars?
- No. We’re very sorry but as of currently, to avoid exchange rate difficulty and other hassles we cannot accept donations other than U.S. Dollars.
• How do I know that you’ve received my money?
- For each donation that you make, please give me a working email address, your Paltalk or Yahoo nickname (if you have one), and your location. The Treasurer will send you a receipt upon receiving your donation to let you know that you are properly credited for your patronage. Your name and the amount you donate will be add on to the donation list at http://eseonline.net/scholarship.php .
• How do I trust that the money I donate will go to the qualified candidate and serve the right purpose of the Grant?
- The Committee will select the candidate from the number of applications and will (hopefully) send the fund straight to the school of the qualified individual. In another sense, the Committee will make sure that the majority of the Grant money goes to the individual’s educational facility rather than any other personal use.
Result of the first scholarship: http://tienganh.net/showthread.php?t=4623
Result of the second scholarship: http://tienganh.net/showthread.php?t=6342
• Who are the people that called themselves “ESE’s Scholarship Board of Committee”?
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- A group of individuals with the same vision and purpose to bring the Vietnamese higher education above and beyond the current limitation.
• How does the Committee pick the qualified candidate?
- We will review ALL applications, verify ALL information and references, and select out the final 3-5 finalists.
- Individual oral and public interview will be held for each finalist with the majority presence of the Committee.
- Committee will pick the best finalist based on the application qualification, verified information and references, and how well the individual carry himself/herself during the interview.
• How will the final beneficiary be contacted about the Grant?
- The final decision of the winner of the Scholarship will be both publicly announced and posted in ESE’s website and in Paltalk.
- We’ll also (of course) contact the individual about the fund and distribute the fund accordingly.
If the answers above cannot satisfy your questions, please post your question specifically here and we'll try to answer as quickly and clearly as possible.
Thank you,
On behalf of ESE Staffs.
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