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Welcome to Sophia Merit Scholarship Inc., a charitable non-profit corporation dedicated to improve the lives of deserving and financially disadvantaged families through the gift of education
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Announcing 10th Annual Sophia Scholarship Award Results!
Sophia Scholarship is pleased to announce the recipients of the Year 2008 10th Annual Scholarship Awards. This year Sophia is awarding a total of 15 scholarships to academically outstanding and financially deserving students, 9 in Engineering and 6 in Medical. Sophia is very glad to announce that 4 of the 9 Engineering and 1 of the 6 Medical Scholarships is made possible by generous contributors from India thorough Sophia India organization.. The Board and the Advisory Committee would like to thank all the donors for their generous contributions to enable us to give record 15 scholarships. The new Scholarship Awards will be $2100 (Rs.1.00,000) for engineering and $2400 (Rs.1.15,000) for medicine.
Advertisement calling for Scholarship was published in the Sophia Web Site and in “The Hindu” dated September 30/ 2008. We received an overwhelming response of 1324 applications ( Medicine 128, Engineering 1196) from all over the country, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, CSBE, Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Orissa, Tamil Nadu Uttar Pradesh, Uttarkhand, and West Bengal. The Advisory Committee reviewed all the applications based on Merit, Financial Resource of the Parents and other eligibility criteria outlined in the application forms. The committee recommended a list of candidates for the Award. Sophia Board of Directors reviewed the Advisory Committee recommendations and unanimously approved the selection.
Sophia Board and the Advisory Committee would like to congratulate all the recipients of Year 2008 10th Annual Sophia Scholarship Awards. Sophia would also like to thank all those who applied for the scholarship and were not selected. We wish them the very Best in their educational endeavors .All the selected Scholars have been intimated and the awards will be distributed at a special ceremony in Chennai in mid May 2009. The Scholarships will substantially cover tuition, boarding and lodging costs for the entire length of the Degree Program.
To view the list of recipients of this year, click on the Program Page.
- Sophia, Inc. is a Public Benefit Corporation under section 501(a) / 501(c) (3) of IRC.
- Donations made to Sophia are tax-deductible in the U.S.
- Sophia in Greek means Wisdom or Knowledge!
- Our letterhead incorporates the icon of Saraswathi, the Hindu Goddess of Knowledge!
- Sophia, Inc. has been formed to provide brilliant, needy students in India with the invaluable opportunity to realize their potential by pursuing lifetime educational goals.
- Sophia, Inc., provides financial assistance to selected students to cover the tuition, lodging and boarding expenses incurred, 4 years for engineering and 5 years for medical, for an undergraduate program in India in the fields of engineering and medicine.
SOPHIA MERIT SCHOLARSHIPS, Inc
- A Charitable, non-profit Corporation
- IRS DLN# 17053077019019
- California Corporation # 2134334, FEIN # 68-0427261
Mailing Address:
SOPHIA MERIT SCHOLARSHIPS INC
5437 TREE SIDE DRIVE
CARMICHAEL CA 95608Phone: 916-485-4238, 916-359-5104, 408-997-2702
E-mail: info@sophiascholarship.orgThank you for visiting us!