Ukrainian Student of the Year in North America to be chosen

NEW YORK - Bohdan Oryshkevich, founder and coordinator of the USA/USA-YKRAMEREZHA Program, which has been helping gifted students from Ukraine earn scholarships to leading American prep schools and colleges since 1992, has announced the creation of a Ukrainian Student of the Year in North America Award in the amount of $1,000.

Each candidate must submit an application with his/her name, address, date of birth, high school and year of graduation, telephone and/or e-mail address. Included with this should be documentation of the student's Ukrainian origin, an official certificate of good standing and of expected graduation from high school in the spring of 2006, which must come directly from the high school. Also required is an official transcript directly from the candidate's school from ninth through 12th grade with the calculated GPA and the subjects taken up to and including the date of graduation.

The student must provide official Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) reasoning and subject test score reports directly from the Educational Testing Service (ETS) and the College Board. The official ETS institution code for the USA/USA Program is 9000. Students can forward these scores online at www.collegeboard.com or via a paper request. The deadline for the submission of all materials is July 1.

All materials must arrive by mail to: USA/USA-YKRAMEREZHA, P.O. Box 250093, Columbia University Station, New York, NY 10025-1531. For more information call 212-475-5326, e-mail info@ukrainianscholarships.org log on to www.ukrainianscholarships.org. The winner will be announced by September 1.

The USA/USA-YKRAMEREZHA Program is a not-for-profit program that benefits from the 501 (c) 3 status of the Coordinating Committee to Aid Ukraine Inc. (USA).

Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, June 4, 2006, No. 23, Vol. LXXIV

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