The American University Emerging Global Leader Scholarship encourages educational opportunity and access while fostering global diversity. The AU Emerging Global Leader succeeds, inspires, and serves with vision by combining the best aspects of AU: academic achievement, leadership development, and global involvement. The AU EGL is committed to bringing about constructive societal and civic change, and they will return home to help underdeveloped and neglected regions there. We cordially encourage you to get to know our illustrious current AU Emerging Global Leader Scholars and recent EGLS graduates.

Details

• Opportunity type: Fully Funded
• Opportunity: Scholarship
• Scholarship level: Bachelor’s degree | Master’s degree
• University: American university
• Scholarship name: Emerging Global Leader Scholarships
• Location: USA
• Availability: International
• Gender: Male and Female
• Application type: Online
• Deadline: 15.12.2023

The AU EGL scholarship pays for one foreign student’s whole billable AU costs (full tuition, lodging, and board), who will require a non-immigrant visa (ideally an F-1 or J-1 student visa) in order to study in the United States. Non-billable fees like required health insurance, books, airfare, taxes, and other costs (which total around US$4,000 per year) are not covered by the scholarship.

Based on sustained good academic progress, the AU EGL scholarship is extendable for a total of four years of undergraduate study. All AU majors are available to students who are interested in applying.

You are NOT eligible to apply if:

• You are a U.S. citizen, U.S. permanent resident, U.S. pending permanent resident, or dual citizen of the U.S. and another country.
• You are enrolled in or have already begun any post-secondary studies at another university in your home country or the United States.
• You graduated from secondary school earlier than 2022.

Eligibility

• students from abroad who have surmounted a variety of difficulties as well as individuals from varied and underrepresented socioeconomic and cultural origins.
• A minimum 3.8 GPA equivalent out of 4.0 GPA (or in the top 10% of graduating class) for 9th-12th grades.
• A demonstrated commitment to leadership, volunteerism, community service, and to advancing the needs of people in their home country.
• Students with one of the following:
  1. 95+ TOEFL iBT (all subscores must be 20 or above)
  2. Sub-scores of 24+ on the paper-based TOEFL (Taken after May 31, 2017)
  3. 7.0+ IELTS (all subscores must be 6.0 or above)
  4. 33 minimum SAT Reading subscore
  5. 29 minimum ACT English
  6. 65 minimum PTE
  7. 125+ Duolingo (all subscores must be 115 or above)
  8. Cambridge Assessment English score of 185 or higher. Each sub-score must be 169 or higher.
• Students who are still enrolled in secondary/high school and graduating by June 2024.
• Important: Students in the IB system should plan to graduate with a full IB diploma with at least 3 HL subjects. Students studying in the British A-Levels system must complete at least 3 A levels and finish 13 years of study before August 2024.

How to Apply

1. Complete the online AU EGLS application; the application will be available September 15, 2023.
2. Submit a bank letter and the AU Certification of Finances (AU CFIS) form – each demonstrating a minimum of U.S.$4,000. These can be uploaded via your Future Eagle Portal or sent by fax to +1-202-885-1025. Examples of bank letters and the AU CFIS form template
3. Submit your official TOEFL, IELTS, Duolingo English, PTE, or Cambridge Assessment English Test score results by December 15, 2023, at the latest. Please have official English proficiency score reports sent directly by the testing agency to American University, Undergraduate Admissions, Washington, District of Columbia. Please note: Students cannot submit their own results.
4. Complete and submit the Common Application or Coalition Application, together with all supporting documents per checklist by the AU EGLS priority deadline of December 15, 2023, or by January 15, 2024, at the latest. Please note that the preliminary AU EGLS application packet must include a bank letter confirming a minimum of US$4,000 (not US$78,296). Students who do not submit a complete application packet with all supporting documents by the deadline will not be reviewed.
5. If you are applying through a program supported by EducationUSA or if you are a past FLEX or YES high school scholarship recipient from the U.S. Department of State, please provide a letter from your EducationUSA center’s adviser confirming your candidacy. You may request for the letter to be sent to [email protected] as a PDF.
6. In case you are not chosen as a finalist, you can still apply for admission to American University in Washington, DC, and may be eligible for partial merit scholarships. However, you will be required to provide evidence of funds totaling U.S. $ 78,296 to proceed with the application process. These funds are estimated costs for the first year of study.

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