Commonly asked questions:

 

  1. Scholarships will be paid in equal installments of $500 or more over a two-year period.
  1. Scholarships are never given to the student or the family. They are mailed directly to the schools.
  1. In June, we will send you a letter requesting your Acceptance Letter from the school you will be attending, school ID#, an envelope with a stamp, addressed to the School’s Financial Aid Office. We will not follow-up to request this information. When you send it, we will send scholarship payment to the school. (NOTE: You are receiving this letter today.)
  1. We try to mail checks to the school by August 1 so that when you arrive on campus the scholarship payment will be there.
  1. As soon as you submit grade report for the fall semester we will send check to the school. We like to send check by January 10.
  1. You must maintain full-time (i.e., at least 12 semester hours or more) enrollment status.
  1. You must maintain a cumulative GPA of 2.5 or higher, no rounding.
  1. If cumulative GPA falls below 2.5, the scholarship payment for that semester is forfeited. No further scholarship payments will be made until your overall GPA is 2.5 or above.
  1. You must submit your grade report at the end of each semester (fall and spring).
  1. Payments for a semester will be forfeited if grade reports are not received timely. Grade reports for the fall semester must be received no later than October 1. Grade reports for the spring semester must be received no later than March 1.
  1. You may submit an online grade report furnished by the school IF it shows your name, your school ID, name of school, classes/number of hours taken, grades and cumulative GPA.
  1. Summer grades count in your cumulative score but do not count as a semester. When taking summer classes to improve GPA, make sure the grades will be accepted by your school and included in your GPA. No scholarship payment is made for the summer semester—only fall and spring semesters.
  1. If you receive a full scholarship for tuition, fees, room, board and books, the JEL scholarship is null and void and will not be paid. The school will generally notify us and we will ask the school to return the scholarship payment.
  1. Sometimes students change schools after they submit an Acceptance Letter. As soon as you make a change in schools, let us know. If you wait until a check is mailed, we must request the school to return the first check and it be received before we issue another check.

 

Questions, please direct them to info@jelfoundation.org