Nominations Open For Elmira Key Awards
Elmira, NY (02/14/2022) — Nominations are now being accepted for the Elmira College Key Awards. An award of merit, the Key Award is presented to outstanding students in their junior year of high school or preparatory school. Students are nominated for the award by their high school guidance counselors.
Each Key Award winner receives an $80,000 scholarship, $20,000 per year, over a four-year period upon enrolling at Elmira College. If a Key Award winner is eligible for a merit scholarship of a greater value at the time of admission to Elmira College, that scholarship supersedes the Elmira College Key Award, but the student will still be recognized as a Key Award winner. Recipients attending EC are also honored in the fall of their freshman year by the Elmira College Alumni Association and are presented with the Elmira College Key.
Selection criteria for the Key Award include a minimum academic grade point average of 3.0 (4.0 scale), demonstrated outstanding school and community leadership, and an interest in an academic program offered by Elmira College.
Sponsored by the EC Alumni Association, the Elmira College Key Award recognizes students for high academic achievement, leadership, citizenship, and participation in extracurricular activities. The award has been presented since 1935.
ABOUT ELMIRA COLLEGE
Founded in 1855, Elmira College is a private, residential, liberal arts college offering 25-plus majors, an honors program, 17 academic societies, and 16 Division III varsity teams. Located in the Southern Finger Lakes Region of New York, Elmira's undergraduate and graduate student population hails from more than 20 states and nine countries. Elmira is a Phi Beta Kappa College and has been ranked a top college, nationally, for student internships. The College is also home to the Center for Mark Twain Studies, one of four historically significant Twain heritage sites in the U.S., which attracts Twain scholars and educators from around the world for research on the famous literary icon. Proud of its history and tradition, the College is committed to the ideals of community service, and intellectual and individual growth.
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Each Key Award winner receives an $80,000 scholarship, $20,000 per year, over a four-year period upon enrolling at Elmira College.
Last year, the Elmira College Key award was given to 790 students in 14 states. In August, some of the recipients attended an annual ceremony to honor them.