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Each year, the New Jersey Hospital Association offers the Health Career Scholarships, which award a minimum of $2,000 to one or more applicants each. These scholarships are meant to encourage and enable residents of NJ (particularly minorities and women) to pursue health careers.
Applicants must fit the following criteria:
1. Be a New Jersey resident;
2. Have been accepted in a graduate or undergraduate (junior and seniors only) program in hospital or healthcare administration or a graduate or undergraduate (junior or senior only) program in Nursing or Allied Health Profession;
3. Have maintained a grade point average of at least 3.0 (on a 4 point system or equivalent);
4. Demonstration of financial need with a FAFSA document and financial aid application and/or federal tax return from the previous year.
To apply, those interested must:
◆ Provide a two-page essay letter detailing your academic plans for the future and substantiating the above eligibility requirements have been met. Essays will be 50% of the judging criteria;
◆ Provide one letter of recommendation from the head of the program in which the student is enrolled or from a current supervisor;
◆ Provide an official transcript (online transcript copies are not accepted);
◆ FAFSA, Financial aid application and/or federal tax return from the previous year.
◆ Provide a current address, phone number and email address.
The application for this scholarship must be received by the NJHA by July 29, 2011, and the scholarships will be awarded in September, 2011. Completed applications should be sent to:
Send to: Scholarship Program
Health Research and Educational Trust of New Jersey
PO Box 1
Princeton, NJ 08540-0001
Attention: Development and Trustee Relations
(609) 275-4224
Best of luck!
