Undergraduate Scholarships and Awards

• Statistics Department/Eli Lilly Company Scholarship
  Selection is based on academic excellence and demonstrated potential for success in statistics. Students must plan to major as a freshman in statistics. The individual selected will be chosen on the basis of admissions information (completion of the admission process and submission of class rank, enhanced ACT composite score and enhanced ACT test scores in English, Mathematics, Reading and Scientific Reasoning. The corresponding SAT test scores can be used in place of the enhanced ACT scores) in comparison with other freshmen planning to major in statistics. A letter of reference from a secondary school mathematics teacher is required as well as a letter from the applicant. Both letters should be sent to Professor Dean L. Isaacson, Head, Department of Statistics, 102 Snedecor Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011-1210.

• Statistics Club Award ($200)
  The award recognizes an undergraduate statistics major who has contributed to the Statistics Club and the Department of Statistics while demonstrating academic achievement and scholarship. The recipient shall be a junior or senior majoring in statistics. The recipient shall have at least 12 credits in statistics. The recipient shall have an overall G.P.A. of at least 2.5/4.0 and a statistics G.P.A. of at least 3.0/4.0. The recipient shall be an active member of the Statistics Club.

• George W. Snedecor Undergraduate Statistics Award ($200)
  The award recognizes an undergraduate statistics major who has demonstrated superior academic achievement and scholarship. The recipient shall be a junior or senior majoring in statistics. The recipient shall have at least 12 credit hours in statistics, including a minimum of 9 credits at 300+ level. The recipient shall have a G.P.A. of at least 3.0/4.0 overall and a statistics G.P.A of at least 3.5/4.0.

• Schillmoeller Family Scholarship in Statistics ($500)
  The scholarship shall be open to undergraduate statistics majors with an overall G.P.A of at least 3.2/4.0 and with demonstrated financial need.

• Scott Kongable Undergraduate Statistics Scholarship ($600)
  The scholarship is open to sophomores and juniors majoring in statistics. The student shall have at least 9 credits of statistics classes by the end of Spring semester with an overall G.P.A. of at least 3.0/4.0 and a statistics G.P.A. of at least 3.25/4.0. Scholarship recipients must take 12 or more credits both semesters of the next academic year. Selection is based on G.P.A., extra-curricular activities and an interview.

• Undergraduate Scholarship Sponsored by Procter and Gamble, Inc. ($1000)
  The scholarship is open to sophomores and juniors majoring in statistics. The student shall have completed MATH 165, 166 and 265 and at least 8 credits in statistics courses. The scholarship recognizes early academic achievement in the major of statistics.

• Max Boehm Scholarship (Full in-state tuition)
  The scholarship is open to all undergraduates, who are sophomores, juniors or seniors, majoring in statistics, who have financial need and are from challenging family backgrounds, representing a unique situation that might have prevented the recipient from considering a college education at Iowa State University. The student must have, and maintain, a minimum G.P.A. of 2.5/4.0 to receive the award.

The Statistics Department Scholarship Committee meets in April to review applications and make awards for the following academic year.

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