Scholarship Selection Team

Each year, the Foundation receives about 30 applications for our tuition scholarship program. We recruit about 30 physicians to read 5 to 7 applications each. This ensures each application is evaluated several times by DOs selected at random. Scores are averaged and applications are ranked.

Each application consists of a 90-second video, two short essays, and one letter of recommendation. It takes about 15 minutes to review each application, so your time commitment is about 1.5 to 2.5 hours. You can review the applications one at a time over several days or do them all in one sitting. You have almost a month to complete the process. Sound simple? It really is. So why not give back and volunteer to read applications for our upcoming scholarship season?

Key Dates for 2024

May 3 (updated) – Deadline for student scholarship applications
May 5 (Updated) – The Selection Team receives applications to review
May 20 – Selection Team deadline to have all applications reviewed and final scores submitted to David Walls
May 23 (updated) – The Selection Team finalizes the recommendation with the Board of Directors
May 29 – The Board makes the final selection.
June 10 – Students and schools are notified about recipients.