1st Financial Bank USA wants to celebrate those who recognize the importance of pursuing educational and financial goals with the 1st Financial Bank USA Financial Goals Scholarship.
The George H. Nofer Scholarship for Law is for full-time graduate students with bilateral moderate to profound hearing loss who are attending an accredited law school. Students may be graduate students who are attending an accredited law school or a masters or doctoral program in public policy or public administration. Applicants must be using listening and spoken language as your primary mode of communication. Applicants must have a pre-lingual hearing loss (diagnosed prior to your fourth birthday). Their hearing loss must be bilateral and in the moderately-severe to profound range. Applicants must have an unaided Pure-Tone Average (PTA) of 60dB or greater in the better hearing ear in the speech frequencies of 500, 1000 and 2000 Hz. If you have cochlear implants, you meet this eligibility requirement. Unilateral (one-sided) hearing loss does not qualify. Three letters of recommendation from three different individuals are required. At least one letter must be from one of the applicant's professors in an academic or studio subject. All three letters may be from teachers or professors or two letters may be from other individuals such as a coach, extracurricular activity sponsor, hearing health professional, employer, etc. Please visit the scholarship's website for more information.
Eligibility Requirements
Eligibility Requirements
Minimum GPA
None specified
Ethnicity / Heritage
None specified
Residency
None specified
Gender
None specified
Religious Affiliation
None specified
School Location
DC
Area of Study
Law/Legal Services
Public Policy and Administration
Financial Need
None specified
Scholarship Sponsor
Scholarship Sponsor
Organization
Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia
Ethnicity
American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian/Pacific Islander, African-American/Black, Hispanic, African, Latin American/Caribbean
1st Financial Bank USA wants to celebrate those who recognize the importance of pursuing educational and financial goals with the 1st Financial Bank USA Financial Goals Scholarship.