Student Recruiting and Scholarship Endowment Information

SARASOTA OHIO STATE STUDENTS

We are so happy to report that recent high school graduate of Braden River High School, Kari Schultz, has chosen to attend OSU in the fall. She is a stellar academic student who is well rounded with volunteerism, campus leadership, and athletics. She is the recipient of the $600 alumni scholars‘ program scholarship and will also be receiving a $1,500 Gerry Keyes Scholarship from our local club! Kari will be joining our continuing students who will also be receiving $1,500 scholarships. These students are

1. Kari Schultz

2. Kyle Redding

3. Damien Bythrow

4. Chelsea Gillespie who will all be Juniors

5. David Fultz who is in the PhD program

Jordan Hershberger who will be a Senior swimmer for the Buckeyes (Jordan is unfortunately unable to receive scholarship money from our club since he is a registered University athlete)!  Most recent communication with the University also revealed that we have two additional upperclassmen from our area by the names of Caroline Majeed and Cory Reeves. We are so happy to welcome them to our Buckeye family and are hopeful to be able to provide them with our local scholarship money.

We continue to have an impressive number of students from our area who are choosing The Ohio State University as their collegiate home. With this being said it goes without saying that raising scholarship money for our local students always has been and will continue to be a priority for our club. With continued support from your participation in outings such as our annual golf tournament, 50/50 chance drawings, football ticket raffles, Tervis tumbler sales, and other fundraising events we continue to raise money for our local students to provide the Gerry Keyes Scholarship. To date the Sarasota-Manatee OSU Alumni club has given $24,000 to individual students from our area just in the last 7 years alone! For scholarship questions, donations, or opportunities please call Shannon McMahon at 941-539-1704 or via email at shanny_nole@hotmail.com

The club would like to recognize the following students that we know are attending Ohio State or will be in the fall.

Kari will be our student liaison between University and club.

Our Club's Scholarship Endowment is our direct link to helping local students with their educational funding needs in Columbus! We need YOU to continue to support the fund with contributions to keep our fund strong for the future. Please send your contribution to and make your check payable to:

Sarasota-Manatee Ohio State Alumni Club

               Sarasota-Manatee Ohio State Alumni Club
               c/o Mike Kennelly, Interim Club Treasurer
               4408 Sawyer Rd.
               Sarasota, FL  34233

If you are interested in more details on the Scholarship program, please contact Shannon McMahon (contact information at the top).

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Scholarships & financial aid

Ohio State offers many scholarship and financial aid opportunities for qualifying students. Follow these links for more information:

The Sarasota-Manatee club scholarship committee will award a $500 scholarship to a qualifying incoming freshman from Sarasota-Manatee starting with the 2002 academic year.

Information on the National Buckeye Awards is in the Student Viewbook on page 32. Any out of state student who has 23-25 on the ACT or 1070-1170 on the SAT is automatically considered. If everything is ok on their applications they get $2250 per year for four years. (Up for next year from $2000.)

The National Buckeye Plus Awards go to out of state students with ACTs of 26 or more, or SATs of 1180 or more. The amount is $4500 per year for four years. (up from $4000)

If we find good students we can assure them of $9000-$18,000 plus any small amount from the Alumni Scholarship or the Club. This makes OSU a great bargain for good out of state students.

To put the test scores in perspective, the mean ACT for OSU entering freshman last September was 25.2. So you can be a bit below average and get $2250 per year. The National Buckeye and Buckeye Plus Scholarships are virtually automatic for out of state students with appropriate test scores.

These students can still compete for the academic merit scholarships and minority scholarships the university awards. The really good ones can get excellent financial aid to study in Columbus. Minority students with reasonably good grades will find the financial assistance generous.

Minority includes African American, Hispanic, Asian (That includes Filipinos as well as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean ancestry.), South Pacific Islanders, and Native Americans. To be eligible for consideration for a minority scholarship a student must meet one of the following criteria:

1. be in the top 20% of the graduation class
2. have a 3.00 GPA
3. score 23 or better on the ACT
4. score 1070 or better on the SAT

With OSU's increasing standing academically and this generous financial aid we have quite a package to tout for area students. We might want to spend some time talking about student recruitment.

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