Wesleyan Freeman Asian Scholars Program

Region: East Asia / Pacific
Grant Type: Study and Research Grants
Description: The
Wesleyan Freeman Asian Scholarship Program provides expenses for a
four-year course of study toward a bachelors degree for twenty-two
exceptionally able Asian students annually from these countries and
regions: the Peoples Republic of China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan,
Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand,
and Vietnam.

Wesleyan is now accepting applications for
participation in the Wesleyan Freeman Asian Scholarship Program.
Twenty-two (22) qualified young men and women will be selected, two (2)
from each of eleven countries and regions The Peoples Republic of
China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines,
Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. The chosen
applicants will join 2,700 other Wesleyan undergraduates from
throughout the United States and nearly 50 countries for study with an
outstanding teaching and research faculty in the sciences and
mathematics, the arts, the humanities, and the social and behavioral
sciences.
This program is made possible by Wesleyan University
and the Freeman Foundation, which aims to improve understanding and to
strengthen ties between the United States and the countries and regions
of the Pacific Rim.
Entry into the Wesleyan Freeman Asian
Scholarship Program is highly competitive: only two students will be
selected annually from each country or region. The scholarship covers
costs for tuition, room, and board for four years, and one-time
transportation to and from the United States.
Wesleyan University
is located in Middletown, Connecticut, halfway between New York and
Boston in the historic and colorful New England region of the
northeastern United States. It is a private, nonsectarian, liberal arts
and sciences institution founded in 1831. A number of early Wesleyan
graduates were influential educators and ministers in Asian countries,
and the modern Wesleyan has formal ties to several prominent
universities in Asia. The campus is home to a diverse population of
2,700 undergraduate students, equally divided between men and women,
approximately 28 percent of whom are of African, Asian, or Hispanic
descent, and nearly 160 students from foreign countries.
Approximately
190 graduate students, a number of whom are from Asian countries, are
pursuing advanced degrees, principally in the sciences, mathematics,
and music.
APPLICATION
Interested students also must submit a
written application that includes background information, two essays, a
secondary school/junior college transcript, recommendations from two
teachers and one counselor, a peer reference, and results of any
standardized national examinations administered during the secondary
school/junior college years. Officials from Wesleyan and the Freeman
Foundation will travel to Asia and conduct interviews of finalists in
their home countries in February or March. All application materials
are to be postmarked no later than January 1. (For students in the
Philippines, we recommend mailing your application earlier or using a
courier service.) Applications are available from secondary
schools/junior colleges and from the AIG offices listed.
You may also write to Dean Terri Overton at toverton@wesleyan. edu to request the special Freeman application forms. The application for
the Freeman Asian Scholarship is different from the Common Application
and it is not available on-line. You should not submit the Common
Application.
Wesleyan alumni in the eleven countries and regions,
as well as local AIG offices, can provide further information to
students interested in applying. They also will be pleased to assist
applicants in forwarding application materials to Wesleyan.
Country:

Deadline: Varies
Contact Person: Dean Terri Overton
Contact Email: toverton@wesleyan. edu
Organization: Wesleyan University
Website: http://www.admiss. wesleyan. edu