The VISP and Master’s Scholarship is designed to provide financial support to exceptional students pursuing their second year of study in the masters programs in the Department of Mathematics.
The scholarship is merit-based. The scholarship is $5000 per award. The number of awards is typically about 10% of the total population of first-year(or first semester if start in spring) VISP students plus the first-year(or first semester if start in spring) direct admit (non-VISP) MA students. The scholarship will be used to reduce the tuition for the second/final year of the master’s programs.
Who is considered for this award:
• First-year(or first semester if start in spring) VISP students and first-year(or first semester if start in spring) direct-admit master students in good academic standing with a minimum of 3.0 GPA;
Selection Process:
• The VISP-MA committee identifies the top 20% of eligible students based on GPA in the first year/semester of either the VISP program or the MA-FAS program in late May;
• The Program coordinator notify initially selected students and ask if they would like to suggest a faculty member for a brief letter of support;
• The Program Coordinator sends letter requests based on student responses (or committee suggestions if there isn’t one)
• The VISP-MA committee decides on the recipients in summer.