Stephens College Will Partner With The AHHS
Stephens College is offering an outstanding incoming freshman female representative of the American Hackney Horse Society a tremendous opportunity to obtain an equestrian based liberal arts education through a very simple process. Using the profile that Stephens College provides, your association chooses 2-5 potential scholarship recipients. Each potential recipient fills out the attached equestrian application in addition to applying for admissions to Stephens. Upon acceptance to Stephens, the Stephens College Equestrian Studies faculty will evaluate each applicant and choose the best fit for the program. Each scholarship recipient will receive an equestrian leadership scholarship that can be reapplied for each year. The deadline for Stephens College to receive the 2-5 applications from the AHHS is January 15, 2011 for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Stephens in finding the “best fit” students as identified below:
- Passion for all things horse
- Academically-oriented student interested in all phases of personal growth and development
- Community minded – interested and willing to be engaged in service activities
- Solid work ethic
- Desire to explore a profession in the equine industry
- Respective youth association member
- Breed and Discipline involvement (showing, youth clubs, and youth council, anything that shows involvement specifically with the respective equestrian community)
- Financial need
- At least one reference letter from a person in the pertinent equestrian community