Harrison College is awarding four scholarships to career focused and success driven high school Seniors. Apply online by December 31, 2011 to be considered for one of the four following awards:

1. (1) Scholarship covering full tuition costs for a Harrison College Associate Degree
2. (1) Scholarship covering half tuition costs for a Harrison College Associate Degree
3. (2) $2500 scholarships to be contributed to tuition cost

Scholarship Details

Harrison College will award four scholarships to High School Seniors getting ready to graduate from high school. The four available scholarships include:

1. (1) Award covering full tuition costs for a Harrison College Associate Degree (dollar amount awarded is determined by the Harrison College tuition schedule of the recipients' enrolled program)
2. (1) Award covering half tuition costs for a Harrison College Associate Degree (dollar amount awarded is determined by the Harrison College tuition schedule of the recipients' enrolled program)
3. (2) $2500 awards to be contributed to tuition cost

Eligibility

• Senior in high school graduating by June 2012
• Interested in attending Harrison College after high school graduation
• Show academic progress toward graduation

Award

If selected, the recipient will receive one of the four available scholarships for Harrison College’s summer or fall term. The award is to be divided evenly over each term of the student’s enrollment until the award is fully distributed. Students may only apply once, and awards are not eligible for renewal. Any student who withdraws, or changes to an ineligible program of study, automatically forfeits any remaining scholarship funds.

Application Process

• Submit completed scholarship application online www.harrison.edu by December 31, 2011
• Submit a 500-word essay describing "Why you are a career focused and success driven student"
• Submit one letter of recommendation from a school or work reference (i.e. teacher, coach, manager, counselor)
• Submit one letter of recommendation from a relative (i.e. parent, guardian, sibling, grandparent, aunt/uncle, etc.)
• Incomplete applications will not be reviewed

Selection Process

All completed applications will be reviewed after the December 31, 2011 deadline by the Harrison College Scholarship Committee to determine the four finalists. All top four finalists will be video interviewed.

The video interviews and personal essays will be posted on Harrison College’s social media channels.  Each candidate’s video will be open to a public vote (based on “likes”).  Candidates are urged to invite friends and family to vote for their video interview on the Harrison College Social Media pages.  After the conclusion of the Voting Phase, the Harrison College Scholarship Committee will determine the award winners based on each candidate’s number of votes from all social media sources.  In the event of a tie, the Harrison College Scholarship Committee will determine the winner.

The applicant with the most votes will receive a full tuition scholarship (for an Associate Degree Program), the applicant with the second most votes will receive a half tuition scholarship (for an Associate Degree Program), the applicants with the third and fourth most votes will receive one of the two $2500 scholarships. Social Media voting concludes Saturday, March 31, 2012. Scholarships recipients will be notified April 2012.

Expectations

• To receive award, all necessary entrance enrollment requirements to Harrison College must be complete.
• Applicants selected for video interviewing will be required to complete a video interview session with Harrison College between January 1, 2012 and February 18, 2012.  Applicants failing to complete video interview will be removed from selection process. 
• The top four finalist are encouraged to utilize their personal social media profiles to promote votes for their video on the Harrison College social media profiles.
• Student must maintain a 3.0 or above GPA (on a 4.0 scale) while attending Harrison College, and be in good standing with the college upon disbursement of scholarship money