1. Applicant failed to follow the instructions. Read the instructions for the application carefully. Everything you need to submit the with your application and the way it is to be submitted are in the instructions. The scholarship committee does not return submissions for corrections, so your application must be correct when you submit it or it will be rejected without further review.

2. Application was submitted late. Pay careful attention to the last date to submit an application. Applications with a post mark after the last date to be submitted will not be opened or reviewed by the scholarship committee.