{"id":102961,"date":"2018-05-22T08:32:54","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T13:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=102961"},"modified":"2018-05-22T08:32:54","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T13:32:54","slug":"vwcf-accepting-scholarship-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/05\/22\/vwcf-accepting-scholarship-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"VWCF accepting scholarship applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Van Wert County Foundation is now accepting scholarship applications for the 2018-2019 school year. Scholarships are based on residency, college grade point average, and financial need and are available for any recognized field of study leading to an associate\u2019s or bachelor\u2019s degree.<\/p>\n<p>A maximum of three grants will be made to a student earning a bachelor\u2019s degree in four years. A student whose course of study requires five years to earn a degree may be awarded a fourth grant. Students earning an associate\u2019s degree are eligible for scholarship funds after completing the equivalent of one year. No grants are made beyond the bachelor\u2019s degree. Applicants must be full-time students, although special consideration may be given to part-time students.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-94097\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/VWCF-new-logo-300px-10-2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" \/>Students who have completed the equivalent of one year in college are eligible to have their application considered, provided they have a 2.75 accumulative grade point average. A first-time applicant with above sophomore standing must have a 3.0 accumulative grade point average. Students who have been granted a scholarship must maintain a 3.0 accumulative grade point average to warrant continuation of a scholarship grant.<\/p>\n<p>Applicants must have been a resident of Van Wert or Paulding counties when they graduated from one of the following eligible high schools: Antwerp, Crestview, Delphos Jefferson, Delphos St. John\u2019s, Lincolnview, Parkway, Paulding, Spencerville, Vantage, Van Wert, or Wayne Trace. All graduates of Delphos Jefferson and Delphos St. John\u2019s are eligible regardless of county of residence.<\/p>\n<p>Deadline for application is 4 p.m. Friday, June 1.<\/p>\n<p>Applications may be found online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanwertcountyfoundation.org\/\">www.vanwertcountyfoundation.org<\/a>\u00a0or students may request an application by calling 419.238.1743, emailing\u00a0info@vanwertcountyfoundation.org, or by visiting The Van Wert County Foundation, 138 E. Main St in Van Wert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information The Van Wert County Foundation is now accepting scholarship applications for the 2018-2019 school year. Scholarships are based on residency, college grade point average, and financial need and are available for any recognized field of study leading to an associate\u2019s or bachelor\u2019s degree. A maximum of three grants will be made to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 03:59:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}