Students can use height to their advantage to score money for college.
Good grades, an impressive resume and involvement in community and extracurricular activities can all earn students scholarships to help pay for college. Sometimes, students can also use personal attributes like height to help win them money for school. As of 2011, only one scholarship awards money for being tall. Tall Clubs International offers a scholarship based mostly on a person's height, along with other factors like financial need, grades and activities.
Source
Funding for the Tall Clubs International Scholarship comes from the Tall Clubs International Foundation. The foundation receives private donations, and each of Tall Clubs International's 56 local clubs across the United States and Canada also contribute to the foundation.
Features
Tall Clubs International provides $1,000 scholarships to tall students each year. The number of scholarships offered depends on the funding the Tall Clubs International Foundation receives. Scholarship winners are determined by a scholarship committee, based on the applicants fulfilling eligibility requirements and their academic record, activities and essay responses. Winners are announced at the annual Tall Clubs International Convention, held each year in July.
Eligibility
To qualify for a Tall Clubs International Scholarship, a male student must be at least 6 feet 2 inches tall; the standard is at least 5 feet 10 inches for women. Students don't have to be a member of a Tall Clubs International branch to apply, but must be sponsored by a local club. Students can search the Tall Clubs International website to find the club nearest them to contact about sponsorship. Along with meeting the height requirements, students must be graduating high school seniors or current college students under the age of 21.
Process
Applications for the Tall Clubs International Scholarship can be found online at the Tall Clubs International Foundation website or through the student's local club. A student must turn in the scholarship application to the club, which then submits it to the main organization to be considered. Along with the application, students must include an official grade transcript, two letters of recommendation, a one-page essay entitled "What Being Tall Means to Me" and a release form to publish the winning essay.
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