Scholarship Prizes to Top Scholastic Team:
The University of Maryland Baltimore
County (UMBC) will offer the following scholarship prizes to the
winning team in the 1996 Pan-American Scholastic Team Championship.
- The first board player (or the highest board accepting the prize)
will receive a full four-year
tuition scholarship to UMBC.
(Since out-of-state tuition for the fall 1996 semester is
$4,464, this award has a maximum value of approximately
8 x $4,464 = $35,712.)
- Boards 2-4 (or the next three boards if Board 1 declines
the full scholarship) each will receive a four-year $2,000
per year tuition scholarship to UMBC.
(Each of these
three awards has a maximum value of 4 x $2,000 = $8,000.)
The total maximum value of these awards is approximately $59,712.
Students not on the winning team are encourage to apply for UMBC's
other chess
scholarships.
Conditions
To qualify, the candidate must be accepted to and matriculate at UMBC.
To maintain the award, the student must earn at least 12
credits each semester and maintain a grade point average of at least
3.25 out of 4.0.
These awards are restricted to USA citizens or permanent residents.
If Board 1 declines the full-tuition award, it
will be offered to the highest board player (or alternate)
on the winning team who accepts
it (in place of a $2,000/year award). If no one on the winning team
accepts the scholarship, it will not be awarded to anyone else.
Recipients must have played at least one game
on the winning scholastic team during the championship.