The application deadline for most USC Dornsife Continuing Student Scholarships has now passed.
The USC Dornsife Continuing Student Scholarship Application is a single, common application to a range of scholarships offered to continuing students with a major in USC Dornsife. Please note: these scholarships are not available to students of the USC professional schools, such as Fine Arts, Architecture, Business, Theater, Engineering, Communication, PPD, Cinema etc. Applications from students without a major listed on the application will not be accepted.
The deadline to submit your faculty recommendation is Sunday, February 5th, 2012. Past-deadline recommendations will have no guarantee of completion by the February 24th application deadline.
The entire application must be completed by Friday, February 24th, 2012, at 5:00 PM Pacific Time. This is a strict deadline.
The application consists of:
An online application form, in which you will electronically submit:
- Basic information
- One-page personal resume (PDF Preferred, Word OK)
- STARS Report (PDF preferred, Word OK)
- Financial Aid Summary (PDF Preferred, Word OK). If you do not receive USC Financial Aid, including loans, grants, or other scholarships, you will not have a Financial Aid Summary available in OASIS, and you are thus not required to submit financial information.
- One or more personal statements of 2300 characters or less. The application will cut-off your essay at 2300 characters (including spaces). The personal statement prompt may have multiple parts, but this does not mean each part should be addressed in a separate essay. Each issue in the prompt should be woven together in one 2300 character essay. Please see the FAQ.
Please note, not all continuing student scholarships use this common online application form. Some programs have a special application. This is noted in the scholarship descriptions, so please read ALL scholarship instructions for each program. If no special application is indicated, use the application form above.
An Online Recommendation Document, submitted by a USC Dornsife faculty member on your behalf, is also required. Please see the separate instructions page for more information.
These are the steps to a successfull application submission:
1. Complete the Online Recommendation Document process (click the link on the left side of this page for more info).
2. Submit the online application form. You must fill out all required fields in the first section of the form. You may leave personal statement boxes blank if you so choose.
3. After filling out the basic information online, you will be prompted to upload a STARS report, a Financial Aid Summary, a Resume, and your Personal Statement(s). All of these documents must be either PDF (preferred) or Word format (OK).
- The STARS report and Financial Aid Summary are available through the OASIS system, which you can log-in to through myUSC. You may save as PDF (preferred), or copy and paste ALL of the information from each document into a Word document, and save them for upload with this type of filename: LASTNAME_FIRSTNAME_STARSREPORT
- The Resume should be one page, PDF or Word format.
- Personal Statements should each be one page, double-spaced, size 12 Times New Roman font. You may use one personal statement for multiple essays. At the top of the page, include your name and the names of the scholarships to which each personal statement should apply. No other heading is necessary.
4. After you upload all of your documents and click “Submit”, your electronic application is complete.
5. The application is due on Friday, February 24th, 2012, 5:00 PM Pacific time. The application database will close at 5:01 PM and no applications will be accepted after this time.
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