Scholarship Recipient Selection Process

Updated December, 2021

The student must submit a completed MRASF Scholarship Application Form along with all required information to the high school counselor on or before the Friday before Spring Break.

The core recipient selection committee will consist of the high school principal, the high school counselor and a minimum of 3 high school teachers or other qualified staff that would be familiar with the high school students for at least 2 school years. Teachers that have close ties to one or more potential scholarship recipients (as determined by the high school principal) shall not be on the selection committee. The high school counselor shall be a non-voting member of the committee.

The high school principal will identify the members of the recipient selection committee on or before the Friday before Spring Break.

Each selection committee member will review all of the submitted applications within 6 weeks after the application due date.

Selection committee members may contact a donor if needed to decide if an applicant’s curriculum choice meets the requirements of a specific restricted scholarship. However, the applicants name shall not be disclosed to the donor during those discussions.

After the selection committee has made its initial selection of recipients for each scholarship, the committee will meet again and review the initial recipient selections and make changes as determined by the committee voting members to finalize the recipient selections.

The selection committee shall not accept any input about any scholarship applicant from any MRASF Directors, donors or anyone outside the selection committee.

The selection committee shall not disclose the names of any scholarship applicants or selected recipients to any MRASF Directors, donors or anyone outside the selection committee (except for school administration support staff in order to complete documentation of awards) until after the scholarships have been awarded on Honors Night or Graduation.

All scholarship recipient selection committee decisions shall be final.