Need a little extra cash to pay for school next year? General Casualty Insurance Companies will award up to 20, $1,000 educational scholarships to academically talented high school seniors and college students who plan to study full time at an accredited two or four-year college, university, vocational or technical school.
“The General Casualty scholarship really opened doors for me. It enabled me to afford an education that I will use for the rest of my life,” said Ben Emmrich, a 2003 General Casualty scholarship winner and freshman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “I applied for the scholarship because I needed as many scholarships as I could get for college. The application process was very easy. I’m proud to receive a scholarship from General Casualty.”
General Casualty will award up to four scholarships to students living in states where the company has offices: Alabama, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina and Wisconsin. Eight scholarships will go to dependents of General Casualty’s 1,700 employees and another eight will be given to dependents of staff employed at insurance agencies that have achieved Premier Partner status.
The first 300 applications received between Nov. 1, 2004, and Feb. 15, 2005, will be eligible. These entrants will be notified of their status by the end of April 2005. Students can apply by downloading an application from the General Casualty Web site at generalcasualty.com under “About Us” and “Our Community.” For additional information, please contact Scholarship America at (507) 931-1682 and refer to the General Casualty Scholarship program or visit scholarshipamerica.org.
Recipients will be selected by Scholarship Management Services, a department of Citizens’ Scholarship Foundation of America (CSFA). Winners will be selected using standard CSFA selection procedures including:
- Consideration of past academic performance and future potential
- Leadership and participation in school and community activities
- Work experience
- Statement of career and educational aspirations and goals
- Unusual personal or family circumstances
- An outside appraisal
Financial need will not be considered.
General Casualty will also renew the scholarships awarded last year on the basis of satisfactory academic performance (2.5 grade point average on a 4.0 scale). Scholarships are renewable up to three years or until a degree is earned, whichever occurs first, and are awarded for undergraduate study only.
For more information please contact Anne M. Smith.