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First, I would like to thank Salve Regina University, in Newport, Rhode Island for offering me a place in the class of 2020, and for providing a McAuley Scholarship of $20,000 each year, for four years. I am very grateful and honored.
I am also writing to respectfully request additional aid so that it will be possible for me to attend Salve Regina this fall. Although I have raised funding from generous donors, I am still in need of $15,000 to pay for my freshman year at Salve Regina.
Although I am on the waitlist at Dartmouth College, my chance of admission is low. If I am accepted, it is possible that they will meet my "full demonstrated need". In this case, I would use the money raised to support my living expenses over my four years there. However, I am not counting on this. Last year, only 10% of waitlisted students were accepted.
This is my current situation:
McAuley Scholarship from Salve Regina
$20,000 each year
Parents' Association Scholarship
$5,000 year one (plus $2000 year 2)
My savings
$3,000
Donation from two families
$10,000
Total funding
$38,000
Total Salve Regina tuition, fees, room and board
$53,000
Amount needed to attend Salve Regina in the fall
$15,000
I am hoping that you will consider providing funding to make up the difference between the total cost of the freshman year at Salve Regina, $53,000, and the $38,000 that I have raised so far. This is $15,000.
I have no resources other than the aid that I have summarized above.
I have been working hard in my studies, and also to try to find additional funding so that I can achieve my dream of studying biology at Salve Regina. I have been saving my allowance, given to me as part of my full scholarship to study the IB for two years. I have also applied for and was awarded a scholarship from the Parents’ Association for my first two years of university. Two families here have promised to provide another $10,000 to help pay for tuition at Salve Regina.
I plan to work this summer, although it is difficult because of my visa. I am trying to extend it so that I can find a job here, but I do not yet know if this is possible.
I also hope to work on campus at Salve Regina during the school year and in the summer. I am told by Salve Regina that a job is not guaranteed because there are more students who need on-campus jobs than there are jobs available. I will not be able to work off campus because the F-1 visa does not allow this. I will continue to look for other outside scholarships, but these are difficult to find because I am Nepali, and most scholarships are for students in the United States.
I do not mean to be disrespectful in asking for this additional money. I am extremely grateful for the most generous McAuley Scholarship. However, without additional support, I will not be able to attend university. I will return to Nepal to my family, who are subsistence farmers.
I’m from Naranthan, Sindhupalchowk (this is a link to the facebook page for my village) in Northern Nepal near the border of Tibet, six hours by bus from Kathmandu. My parents are subsistence farmers and were also engaged in animal husbandry. Every year my parents would try to grow varieties of crops and that’s how we made our living. We do not use money in our society. It is based on barter. For example, we used to trade potatoes that we would grow for other food. Now, my parents are growing older and my sister provides for them from her farm next to us.
I have five siblings. Our life was really burdensome in the village. Though we have limited transportation, education and health care, these are not properly managed. We have treacherous trails, there are no qualified teachers, and the small health post is rarely open, without a qualified doctor. If anyone is going through excruciating pain or illness then s/he has to be carried to hospital in Kathmandu.
My village was the second epicenter for the 2014 earthquake. The home of my parents was damaged, and our small monastery destroyed. A brick from our roof hit my mother’s head when she ran to my niece to protect her, but she is alright now.
My goal for attending college is to study biology and I hope to become a doctor and help destitute people like our family. To become a professional doctor and to help the forgotten people of my region satisfies my soul and it would be a great honor to contribute to my Sherpa tribe.
I hope that you will consider supporting me so that I may also attend and graduate from Salve Regina.
Thank you very much for considering my appeal. I am grateful for your kindness and consideration.
Kind regards,
Tenzin Sherpa
P.S. This is Alicia (Lindgren). :) I have come to know Tenzin this year as I volunteered to assist him with his university application process. He is so close to achieving the dream that he has worked for since he was 8 years old, when left his home to study at a boarding school in Kathmandu. He is now finishing the IB program. Tenzin is smart, incredibly hard-working, humble, generous, warm and kind. It has been an honor to know him and work with him. Please consider supporting Tenzin, as I have done.
He is worth your investment.
Thanks!
I am also writing to respectfully request additional aid so that it will be possible for me to attend Salve Regina this fall. Although I have raised funding from generous donors, I am still in need of $15,000 to pay for my freshman year at Salve Regina.
Although I am on the waitlist at Dartmouth College, my chance of admission is low. If I am accepted, it is possible that they will meet my "full demonstrated need". In this case, I would use the money raised to support my living expenses over my four years there. However, I am not counting on this. Last year, only 10% of waitlisted students were accepted.
This is my current situation:
McAuley Scholarship from Salve Regina
$20,000 each year
Parents' Association Scholarship
$5,000 year one (plus $2000 year 2)
My savings
$3,000
Donation from two families
$10,000
Total funding
$38,000
Total Salve Regina tuition, fees, room and board
$53,000
Amount needed to attend Salve Regina in the fall
$15,000
I am hoping that you will consider providing funding to make up the difference between the total cost of the freshman year at Salve Regina, $53,000, and the $38,000 that I have raised so far. This is $15,000.
I have no resources other than the aid that I have summarized above.
I have been working hard in my studies, and also to try to find additional funding so that I can achieve my dream of studying biology at Salve Regina. I have been saving my allowance, given to me as part of my full scholarship to study the IB for two years. I have also applied for and was awarded a scholarship from the Parents’ Association for my first two years of university. Two families here have promised to provide another $10,000 to help pay for tuition at Salve Regina.
I plan to work this summer, although it is difficult because of my visa. I am trying to extend it so that I can find a job here, but I do not yet know if this is possible.
I also hope to work on campus at Salve Regina during the school year and in the summer. I am told by Salve Regina that a job is not guaranteed because there are more students who need on-campus jobs than there are jobs available. I will not be able to work off campus because the F-1 visa does not allow this. I will continue to look for other outside scholarships, but these are difficult to find because I am Nepali, and most scholarships are for students in the United States.
I do not mean to be disrespectful in asking for this additional money. I am extremely grateful for the most generous McAuley Scholarship. However, without additional support, I will not be able to attend university. I will return to Nepal to my family, who are subsistence farmers.
I’m from Naranthan, Sindhupalchowk (this is a link to the facebook page for my village) in Northern Nepal near the border of Tibet, six hours by bus from Kathmandu. My parents are subsistence farmers and were also engaged in animal husbandry. Every year my parents would try to grow varieties of crops and that’s how we made our living. We do not use money in our society. It is based on barter. For example, we used to trade potatoes that we would grow for other food. Now, my parents are growing older and my sister provides for them from her farm next to us.
I have five siblings. Our life was really burdensome in the village. Though we have limited transportation, education and health care, these are not properly managed. We have treacherous trails, there are no qualified teachers, and the small health post is rarely open, without a qualified doctor. If anyone is going through excruciating pain or illness then s/he has to be carried to hospital in Kathmandu.
My village was the second epicenter for the 2014 earthquake. The home of my parents was damaged, and our small monastery destroyed. A brick from our roof hit my mother’s head when she ran to my niece to protect her, but she is alright now.
My goal for attending college is to study biology and I hope to become a doctor and help destitute people like our family. To become a professional doctor and to help the forgotten people of my region satisfies my soul and it would be a great honor to contribute to my Sherpa tribe.
I hope that you will consider supporting me so that I may also attend and graduate from Salve Regina.
Thank you very much for considering my appeal. I am grateful for your kindness and consideration.
Kind regards,
Tenzin Sherpa
P.S. This is Alicia (Lindgren). :) I have come to know Tenzin this year as I volunteered to assist him with his university application process. He is so close to achieving the dream that he has worked for since he was 8 years old, when left his home to study at a boarding school in Kathmandu. He is now finishing the IB program. Tenzin is smart, incredibly hard-working, humble, generous, warm and kind. It has been an honor to know him and work with him. Please consider supporting Tenzin, as I have done.
He is worth your investment.
Thanks!
Organizer
Alicia Lindgren
Organizer
New York, NY