Wieland North America, Inc. has established a scholarship program to assist children of employees who plan to continue their education in college or vocational school programs (or equivalent).
The program is administered by Scholarship America®, the nation’s largest designer and manager of scholarship and other education support programs for corporations, foundations, associations and individuals. Eligibility for individual programs is determined at the sole discretion of the sponsor and eligible applications are reviewed by Scholarship America’s evaluation team.
Applicants to the Wieland North America Scholarship must:
If selected as a recipient, the student will receive a $5,000 award. Up to seven (7) awards will be granted.
One award will be granted for The Rudy Romo and Tyler Muenstermann Memorial Scholarship. Preference for this award will be given to children of employees at the Granite City location.
Provided there are qualified applicants, recipients will be selected in proportion to the number of applicants per country.
Awards are renewable as follows on the basis of maintaining a 2.5 GPA on a 4.0 scale and full-time enrollment:
Recipients who immediately begin pursuing a bachelor degree (or equivalent) upon completion of an associate degree (or equivalent) will be eligible to renew up to three (3) years in total or until a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) is earned, whichever occurs first.
Awards are for undergraduate study only.
All applicants will be notified in July.
Scholarship America processes scholarship payments on behalf of Wieland North America, Inc. Payment is made in early August. The award payments will be issued in U.S. dollars (USD).
Scholarship recipients are selected on the basis of:
Financial need is not considered.
Selection of recipients is made by Scholarship America. In no instance does any officer or employee of Wieland North America, Inc. play a part in the selection. Not all applicants to the program will be selected as recipients. All applicants agree to accept the decision as final.
As part of your application, you must upload the following:
NOTE: If you are providing SAT or ACT test scores, and those scores are not listed on your high school transcript, you will need to upload a copy of your test score report(s) separately. If you are uploading a college transcript, those scores are not required.
Your application is not complete unless all required materials are submitted electronically.