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Requirements & Criteria

Freshman applicants

High school seniors for the freshman year of college

Selection criteria

Regents scores: 30%
Cumulative GPA: 30%
Personal data & essay: 20%
Class Rank: 10%
Applicant Appraisals: 10%

Recipients of the Northern New York, Herring College and Visiting Nurse Association scholarships are chosen based on the student’s combined regents scores, cumulative GPA, rank in class, personal data, essay scores and applicant appraisals. The mentioned criteria are entered into a database to produce a numerical ranking of all freshman applicants. Remaining foundation restricted scholarships are awarded based on donor-directed criteria.

Nontraditional Students: For any year in college, technical, vocational or trade school, full or part-time

  • For any year in college, technical or vocational school, full or part-time.
  • High school or college transcripts are required.
  • In-person interviews are required.
  • Selection is based on educational objectives, ability to meet them and financial need.
  • Amount of award is based on financial need.

North Pleasant Street (Watertown) Scholarship applicants

  • Applicants must reside on North Pleasant Street in Watertown and the applicant’s family must have resided on North Pleasant Street for at least five years.

St. Lawrence County applicants

  • High school seniors for the freshman year of college
  • Applicants must be students in the following school districts: Canton, Clifton-Fine, Colton-Pierrepont, Edwards-Knox, Gouverneur, Hammond, Harrisville, Hermon-DeKalb, Heuvelton, Lisbon, Madrid-Waddington, Massena, Morristown, Norwood-Norfolk, Ogdensburg, Parishville-Hopkinton, Potsdam or St. Lawrence Central.
  • Applications will be accepted from high school seniors who plan to enroll as full-time college freshmen (12 credits per semester).
  • Students who plan to attend technical or vocational schools are eligible to apply.
  • Selection is based on academic criteria and personal data as listed above.

Rotary Purple Heart Scholarship applicants

  • Applicants (or their dependents — spouse or child) must provide documentation that they or a parent or spouse was awarded the Purple Heart while serving in the U.S. armed forces.
  • Applicants must be residents of Jefferson, Lewis or St. Lawrence counties.
  • Applicants can be entering any year of full-time undergraduate study (12 credits per semester).

Northern New York Community Foundation

131 Washington Street
Watertown, NY 13601

Phone: 315-782-7110
Fax: 315-782-0047

info@nnycf.org

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Northern New York Community Foundation

We are grateful and honored to be entrusted with stewarding the legacies of so many thoughtful friends and neighbors across our region.

During the past year, the following individuals remembered their community through their will or other legacy planning, their families chose to name the Community Foundation for public memorial tributes, including establishing a fund in their memory, or a memorial fund was transferred to the care and stewardship of the Community Foundation.

How will you be remembered?

#ThoughtfulGivingNNYCF #Legacies #InMemoriam
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We are grateful and honored to be entrusted with stewarding the legacies of so many thoughtful friends and neighbors across our region.

During the past year, the following individuals remembered their community through their will or other legacy planning, their families chose to name the Community Foundation for public memorial tributes, including establishing a fund in their memory, or a memorial fund was transferred to the care and stewardship of the Community Foundation.

How will you be remembered?

#ThoughtfulGivingNNYCF #Legacies #InMemoriam
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