The Emmanuel Leadership Initiative (ELI) Competitive Leadership Scholarship is an institutional program that recognizes students with outstanding leadership skills. 

Award

Recipients of this scholarship are awarded full tuition (minus the HOPE Scholarship and the Georgia Tuition Equalization Grant, if they are Georgia residents).  A maximum of two leadership scholarships will be awarded to incoming freshmen each year with the total number of scholarships at any given time not to exceed eight.

This scholarship must be coordinated with other financial aid awarded at Emmanuel.  If this scholarship is awarded in conjunction with any of the aid programs listed below, the total amount of scholarships and grants cannot exceed the cost of tuition, housing and/or board charged by the college.  If exceeded, the below scholarships will be adjusted:

Eligibility:  

Initial Award:

• Must represent exemplary servant leadership within the student’s church, school, and community
• Must be a graduating high school senior
• Must have admissions index of 2500 (GPA x SAT)
• Must have completed the FAFSA, the Emmanuel College Application for Financial Aid and the ELI Scholarship Application (click here to download).

Award Renewal:  After the initial award year, this scholarship is renewable for a maximum of three more years if the following criteria continue to be met:

• Must participate faithfully in the Emmanuel College ELI program
• Must maintain a cumulative GPA of 2.5
• Must have completed the FAFSA, the Emmanuel College Application for Financial Aid and the ELI Scholarship Application (click here to download).

Assessment

The following assessment process will be used to determine which applicants receive the annual awards: 

·         The Emmanuel Leadership Initiative Student Advisory Board will employ the current ELI Tracking Point System used for all Emmanuel College graduating seniors to evaluate the list of applicant leadership activities, awarding points to each activity and totaling all points for each applicant. 

·         The ELI Student Advisory Board and the ELI sponsor will review all application materials of each applicant and forward the top five applicants to the ELI Scholarship Awarding Committee (made up of the ELI sponsor, the Director of Admissions, and the VPAA).    

·         The ELI Scholarship Awarding Committee would review the application materials of the top five applicants individually and then meet to select one or two freshman recipients per year.

·         For renewal purposes, Financial Aid will request verification from the ELI Sponsor each year that the recipient had indeed participated faithfully in the ELI program during the previous year.  Financial Aid would also verify that at the end of each full school year the recipients cumulative GPA was above 2.5.

Frequently Asked Questions

·         Will my financial need be considered as a factor in my receiving this scholarship?  No

·         What is the deadline for my application?  January 15.

·         When will I be notified if I have been awarded this scholarship?  Within one month of application deadline

·         Can you explain the point system that will be used to evaluate my activity resume?  Please contact the ELI sponsor for an explanation of that system.