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National Competition Forms & Instructions

The application will go live in December 2024. Please read the following information very carefully before proceeding. Applications submitted without following the proper procedures will not be considered.

Scholarship Application Process

If you are applying for the Gaston/Nolle or Sledge/Benedict competitions, you must be nominated by your chapter advisor BEFORE you begin your application. Do not proceed until you have received an email inviting you to begin your application. You will click through that email to begin. Advisors must declare their chapter’s undergraduate nominee(s) no later than Feb. 1.

If you are applying for the Pryor/Organ/Freeman competition, a nomination is not required. Start by clicking this link, and then click "Create an Account" to the right of the page that follows to quickly create an account and begin your application.

Members applying to any of the three programs must complete the online application by Feb. 15, 2025. As part of the application form, applicants will upload a paper or other evidence of their scholarship. Depending on the type of submission, applicants may be asked to supply additional documents. Applicants should consult the appropriate competition guidelines below for full details before beginning their application.

All three competitions require an official faculty assessment evaluating the significance of the submission. It must be submitted by a faculty member in the field represented by the nominee’s paper or project. The assessment form will be automatically emailed to the faculty assessor upon submission of the online application form. It is the nominee’s responsibility to separately get their paper or other work to their faculty assessor for review. The official faculty assessment is due Feb. 20.

• Gaston/Nolle Undergraduate Competition Guidelines
• Sledge/Benedict Undergraduate Competition Guidelines
• Pryor/Organ/Freeman Alumni & Graduate Student Competition Guidelines
• Sample Faculty Assessment

Suggested Timeline

The deadline for the 2025 competition is Feb. 15. The national office suggests the following timeline to allow the process the time to work optimally.

• By Jan. 10 - Contact your Chapter Advisor to make sure you can be selected for nomination. Only the Pryor/Organ/Freeman Fellowship competition does not require a chapter nomination.
• By Feb. 5 - Complete your online application so that your faculty assessor will automatically receive the assessment form directly from the national office in time to complete it prior to Feb. 20.
• By Feb. 15 - So that your application package will be complete, verify your Faculty Assessment has been submitted.

If you have a quality work that you want to submit to our competition, please don't let the process intimidate you. If you have any questions about these procedures that your chapter advisor is unable to answer, please call 800-477-4225 or email scholarships@alphachihonor.org. While there are technically thousands of Alpha Chi members who could enter these competitions annually, in recent years, less than 100 students have actually applied.