To the ESE Scholarship panel (HcVcT, m_la_m, VienXu21, Dieu_nhac, Tu-An, HandsomeBear, 8TieuMieu8, LucChiCamMa, Bam-Bi-No, OoSoOSwtJenna, toyo912002), please come to our private meeting on Friday April 30th, 2010 at 9:00pm Cali time, midnight EST time, 11pm Central time / Saturday May 1st, 2010 at 11:00am VietNam time.
To everyone, if you have any suggestions, please reply to this post with your suggestion(s) and they will be discussed in our meeting. We take all suggestions from everyone very seriously.
Meeting Agenda:
- Targeted applicants.Who should ESE target? First year college students or any level college students?
- Prizes and amounts.Should we keep 2 set of prizes (full and partial scholarship)? What should the amount of each scholarship be?
- Applications.Please review the appications and suggest any changes that we should make.
- Requirements / Criterias. Application Checklist.Last Year's requirements are: 1) A completed application. 2) An essay for a given question. 3) A school transcript. 4) Optional - Letter(s) of recommendation (Professional and/or Personal).
- Rubric Scores.Last Year's Rubric scores: 40% - Academic achievement, 30% - Financial need, 15% - Essay, 10% - Letter of recommendation, 5% - Community Service.
- Essay question(s).Enabling the applicants to express him/herself will give ESE a chance to learn more about the applicants. What question(s) should be asked on the essay?
- Time line.What should our time line be and all milestones within it?
- Roles and duties.Who on the ESE Scholarship panel should 1) recap and update with meeting minutes, 2) monitor repository of applications, 3) retrieve, organize, convert, post the applications in a private place on the forum giving access only to the ESE Scholarship panel. This include a letter of rejection if the application does not include all requirements.
If you're on the ESE Scholarship panel and unable to attend the meeting, please have your ideas/opinions/suggestions posted beforehand via this post or private messaging to anyone on the ESE Scholarship panel.
It is crucial that ALL ESE Scholarship panel members be in this meeting to kick off the 2010 ESE Scholarship. I respectfully ask you to arrange the time to attend. Each and everyone on the ESE Scholarship panel holds a unique role and responsibility that can not be replaced by anyone else. Please recognize the obvious importance of your presense at this meeting and make every effort to attend. Please take a moment to review the agenda above. Please come prepared with your own materials assuring the productiveness and effectiveness of this meeting.
Once again, if you're not on the ESE Scholarship panel, please reply to this post with your opinions, ideas, suggestions, recomendations. More than welcoming your input, we urge your involvement. We thank you for being a part of ESE.
Best Regards,