Scholarships are awarded based on academic and extracurricular achievement, communication skills, need and completeness of the application. Recipients must retain a 3.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale and enroll in no less than 30 credit hours each academic year to receive funding for that year.
During the application process, students were asked to write an essay answering the question “If you could have a theme song, what would it be and why?” Emory chose “Unwritten” by Natasha Bedingfield.
“I chose ‘Unwritten’ because in most experiences in life you try to get advice from other people, but you actually have to do things yourself. You have to write your own story, open your own chapter,” he said.
