Thank you for your interest in the Central Insurance Companies Educational and Charitable Foundation Scholarship Program. The scholarship provides up to $5,000 to each student. This annual scholarship may be renewed for up to three additional years.
Students are selected based on several criteria, including:
Demonstrating academic promise and good character with a minimum 3.0 GPA in high school
Completing an extensive application with a personally written essay and two letters of recommendation
Plans to attend an accredited two- or four-year post-secondary educational institution on a full-time basis by the end of 2025
Pursuing a major with a specific use toward a career position within the insurance industry
IMPORTANT NOTES:
All applications require signatures and additional materials, so they must be submitted in paper format and cannot be sent electronically
Applications should be typed and not handwritten
Applications must be notarized. If you are a non-Ohio resident, please contact cicecf@central-insurance.com for information about notarization in your state.
Deadline: Last Friday in March—there will be no exceptions. Applications received after the deadline will not be considered for review unless postmarked before the deadline.
Applicant must complete the application by themselves. Please do not include resumes, folders, or photos with your application.
Items Required with Application
Transcript—enclose a copy of your official high school transcript with your application. The transcript should have a signature and official stamp and be sealed or otherwise indicate the copy is official. The transcript should be dated after January 1, 2025. If you have taken post-secondary coursework, please provide a transcript.
Letters of Recommendation—two sealed letters of recommendation are required. Letters from anyone will be acceptable. Please ask the party to state their relationship to you in their letter. Each letter should be sealed in a separate envelope, and the party who wrote the letter should sign and date the outside of the envelope. Enclose these sealed envelopes with your application.
Essay on the topic “My Career Goal”—the essay may only be one side of one page in length. The applicant must type the essay. Having a clear career goal is an important eligibility requirement for candidates for this scholarship. Please address the following questions in your essay:
What is your career goal?
What major have you chosen to study?
Tell us what motivated you to select your career goal. Was it an individual experience?
How long ago?
How have you been preparing for your career?
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER YOU APPLY?
A screening committee will check all applications for eligibility and completeness.
This scholarship is awarded on an objective and nondiscriminatory basis without regard to race, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, or any other status protected by federal or state law.
The names of our scholarship recipients will be posted on our website after the selection process is complete. All applicants should check our website to verify their status.
To continue receiving the scholarship award following the first term, recipients will be expected to maintain a minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA on a 4.0 scale and remain in school full-time. The recipient’s chosen school will define “full-time.”
The scholarship may be renewed for up to three additional years.
If the scholarship recipient cannot meet the terms of the scholarship during the eligible period, no further scholarship payments will be made. The Central Insurance Companies Educational and Charitable Foundation reserves the right to change the program as it deems necessary.
QUESTIONS
You may direct specific questions about the scholarship or our Educational Foundation to cicecf@central-insurance.com.