Scholarship Intent: To provide roundtrip airline tickets to undergraduate and graduate students across the country who travel away from home to pursue higher education.
Criteria:
1) Student must be enrolled in a college/university at least 200 miles from their designated home at the time they’re applying.
2) Student must be in good academic standing as determined by his or her college.
3) Applicants must be 18 years old or older at time of application.
4) Recipient must be a legal U.S. resident. All federal government regulations related to air travel and Transportation Security Administration rules must be adhered to, including, but not limited to, producing a valid government issued photo ID for air travel.
5) Needed travel must be to/from Southwest Airlines domestic destinations.
6) Students will be required to complete and upload an Enrollment Verification Form with their application. The Enrollment Verification Form must be signed by the college Registrar’s Office and must verify enrollment and grade point average.
7) All selected student recipients will be required to complete and sign an IRS Form W-9 with the student’s full social security number.
8) The student must identify direct or parental ties to a specific country to determine Hispanic origin on the application.
9) The student must write personal essays addressing questions as outlined in the application. The essays must be between 300 and 500 words demonstrating college level writing and grammar skills. Applications with essays with fewer than 300 words or more than 500 words will be disqualified. In the essays, the student should demonstrate or discuss socio-economic need such as financial need, cultural considerations, etc. The essays may be written in Spanish, provided an English translation is included with the application.
