Over a thousand students applied for financial aid with the CNMI Scholarship Office this fall semester\u2014a 35-percent increase in the number of applications the office received in the last five years, according to administrator Jackie Che.<\/p>\n
Of the 1,111 applications for the current semester, Che said that 1,053 were able to meet the deadline.<\/p>\n
As of last week, 405 applications for the Educational Assistance Program have been approved; 69 were denied; 108 are under review; and the rest remain pending for the receipt of documents. The deadline for these supporting documents is Sept. 30.<\/p>\n
Che said that students will be notified about their pending documents this week via letter and email. <\/p>\n
Of the thousand-plus applications, about 800 applications may be eligible for the financial awards, Che said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause we have reached our 10-day mark until the deadline, our final numbers of approved and denied recipients will increase. I am projecting 800 approved recipients this year,\u201d she told Saipan Tribune.<\/p>\n
As for the honors award recipients, she said 10 are new, 32 are ongoing, and 13 are terminated recipients due to non-compliance. To date, 20 have been approved for honors scholarship and 12 are under review.<\/p>\n
Of the 1,111 total applications this fall semester, 669 are on-island applicants, 386 are off-island applicants, and the remaining 57 turned in their applications past the deadline, Che said. <\/p>\n
\u201cBecause of the increase in our applicant pool and our $2 million budget, there will definitely be a reduction in the awards this school year. The board has yet to approve the award allocation per student this fall. Award letters will be sent out beginning October,\u201d said Che.<\/p>\n
The NMI Scholarship Office functions under the Office of the Governor and is appropriated an annual budget of $2 million. Of the figure, almost half of it goes to the Honors Scholarship Program, each of whom receives up to $15,000 a year while a little over half of the program funding goes to EAP recipients, each of whom gets $1,200.<\/p>\n
Che had disclosed that reduction in the financial awards is expected this year to ensure the continuity of the scholarship program. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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