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Transfer Leadership Scholarship at Illinois Institute of Technology 2025

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The Transfer Leadership Scholarship is available for students from  all post-secondary institutions and aims to recognize students who are exemplary leaders at their school and in their community, regardless of where they are from.

Transfer Leadership Scholarship recipients will be expected to lead and mentor students at Chicago area high schools and community colleges. Scholars will encourage and empower others to take on leadership roles and achieve educational success in the fields of science, engineering, architecture, technology, business, and human science.

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Summary

  • Application DeadlineNot Specified
  • Value$30,000
  • Study LevelUndergraduate
  • SponsorIllinois Institute of Technology

Benefits

Recipients of the Transfer Leadership Scholarship receive:

  • Scholarship awards range from $30,000 annual tuition to Full Tuition.
  • Leadership training/mentorship each year

Transfer Leadership Scholars are asked to maintain a commitment to community outreach each academic year that engages and bridges their home and sending communities with the communities at the university, in the Bronzeville neighborhood, and the city of Chicago. Additionally, recipients of the Transfer Leadership Scholarship must make satisfactory academic progress towards completing their degree.

Requirements

Applicants are eligible to be considered for the Transfer Leadership Scholarship if they:

  1. Are a new, incoming transfer student.
  2. Submit the Transfer Leadership Application and Agreement form.
  3. Have attained a cumulative GPA of 3.5/ 4.0 scale, and are in good academic standing at their college at time of application.
  4. Submit a leadership essay answering the question, “How would you be a catalyst for change at Illinois Tech and throughout your post-graduate career?*
  5. Submit a leadership resume.*
  6. Submit a letter of recommendation.*
  7. Attend a scholarship interview.
  8. Awards will be determined based on academic achievement, essay strength, leadership resume strength, and letter of recommendation.

Application Documents

Students will be evaluated based on the following criteria. To ensure a strong application, please follow the expectations below.

  • Leadership Essay: Your essay should be between 500 and 2000 words in length and it should answer the question, “How would you be a catalyst for change at Illinois Tech and throughout your post-graduate career?” Be sure that your essay addresses the following points:
  1. What does leadership mean to you?
  2. How have you been involved both on and off campus to bring people together, build community, and work for change? What specifically have you done in terms of planning, organizing, and engaging your peers/community?
  3. How do you plan to engage your peers at Illinois Tech to have a positive impact on the school community, surrounding neighborhood, and on your academic field?
  4. What broader impact on the world and/or your field of study do you hope to have after graduating?
  • Leadership Resume: Your leadership resume should demonstrate your involvement in both on and off campus extracurricular groups or community service. It should give concrete examples of how you took on the administrative side and the community building/engagement side of leadership in your extracurricular endeavors (Note: you do not have to hold office in an organization to be a leader.)
  • Letter of Recommendation: The letter of recommendation may come from anyone who has had the chance to observe, work alongside, and/or benefit from your leadership skills (i.e. club/organization advisor,  peer mentor/mentee,  professor, etc.) The letter of recommendation should address the applicant’s leadership ability and potential. (Suggestion for recommenders: Please include concrete examples of how this student took on a leadership/mentorship role and discuss the applicant’s ability to build community and increase engagement.)

PLEASE NOTE: The Transfer Leadership Scholarship cannot be combined with other Illinois Tech institutional scholarships such as Chicago STAR, Chicago Police and Fire, PTK, and more. If a student earns multiple Illinois Tech institutional scholarships throughout the admission process, the university will award the highest institutional award for which the student is qualified, but will not combine multiple awards.

Application Deadline

Not Specified

How To Apply

Are you qualified and interested in this opportunity? Kindly go to Illinois Institute of Technology on apply.illinoistech.edu to apply

In addition to meeting all stated deadlines and eligibility requirements above, students interested in applying for the Transfer Leadership Scholarship must:

1. Complete and submit an application for regular admission through our Transfer Application by March 13th. Please note, transfer applications must be submitted 48 hours prior to completing your Transfer Leadership application

2. Submit your leadership essay, leadership resume, and letter of recommendation below:

3. If you do not have your letter of recommendation ready at the time of application submission, please have your recommender send it to [email protected].

For more details visit Illinois Institute of Technology Scholarship Webpage 

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