Dale M. Schoettler Scholarship for Visually Impaired Students

  • Open to all majors * Minimum GPA 2.80 * Full time enrollment required * Financial need preferred * Must be declared legally blind by a licensed physician (provide documentation from physician verifying legally blind status)
    Student’s must be enrolled at least part-time to receive this award (Undergraduate students – 6 units; Graduate Students – 4 units).

Award
$10,000
Deadline
05/31/2023
Supplemental Questions
  1. You must submit a brief personal statement describing your background, personal achievements, challenges you have encountered, educational pursuits and goals and aspirations for the future.
  2. Please Download the Confirmation of Visual Disability Form and upload it once it has been completed by your physician.
  3. Personal Statement. Please provide a response to each of the four questions below (300 word count for each).
    • 1. What experience has impacted your personal growth?
    • 2. Tell us about a time you failed. What did you learn from that experience?
    • 3. Why are you pursuing your major? How does it relate to your career aspirations?
    • 4. Provide an example of service beyond the classroom (i.e., have you taken on significant family obligations, helped others in a specific way, been involved in political action, worked/volunteered/interned at a particular organization, etc.). Why is this example significant to you?