2024 WPF NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION
WPF hosts career/networking, educational, and mentoring events throughout the year. We would like to invite any interested applicant to participate in these events as appropriate. If you are interested, please indicate so below. Your choice to be, or not to be, contacted is not a consideration in the evaluation of the scholarship application.
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Describe your extracurricular activities and other hobbies in the order of interest to you. Include specific events and/or major accomplishments.
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Starting with your most recent position, please list paid jobs or volunteer internships you have held, including summer employment, if any. Include specific events and/or major accomplishments.
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Starting with your most recent position, please list any community service you have participated
in. Include specific events and/or major accomplishments.
Required field!Public Finance historically has been a male-dominated field. The goal of Women in Public Finance is to advance leadership opportunities for women by fostering relationships and providing educational activities and forums. Public Finance professionals work on issues that impact the finance of public entities and include bankers, lawyers, credit analysts and issuers. The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) has a video that discusses the bond issuance process, we encourage you to review this video. MSRB Video (https://www.msrb.org/Education/Municipal-Bond-Market-and-MSRB).
Please discuss why you are interested in Public Finance (and/or a related area of study) and how Women in Public Finance can help guide you in your future goals. If you are applying for the SEI Exam Scholarship or other industry specific exam, please include how the Exam will help you with your future career goals. (Please limit response to 500 words.)
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- Your response in each essay should be no less than 500-words (minimum), no more than 1,000-words (maximum).
- ENTERING FRESHMAN scholarship applicants should complete Essay A.
Please save completed essay(s) in PDF format. Once you are ready to submit your final scholarship application, please combine your essays (s) with ALL other required documents to create a single (1) PDF file prior to uploading.
Required field!Describe a personal experience that drove you to become a leader. How do you plan to take that experience into your school, work, or community?
(This is not intended to be a restatement of your resume)
Required field!Describe a public policy issue about which you are passionate and outline both the challenges and potential solutions regarding such issue.
Required field!Please combine the following documents into a single (1) PDF prior to uploading:
1) Official Transcript (Required)
2) Essay(s) (Required)
3) Resume (Optional)
An updated scholarship application can be submitted, prior to the stated deadline. However, applicants must also include & resubmit ALL documents listed above that comprise their COMPLETE scholarship application. Only the last submission will be evaluated.
Please send all questions regarding submitting your complete scholarship application to: [email protected].
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