Freshman Eastman Scholarship Form

Incoming freshmen mathematics majors who have graduated from a Nebraska high school are invited to apply for the Dean H. and Floreen G. Eastman Scholarship, which can award up to $16,000 over a four-year period.  The department awards several of these prestigious scholarships to incoming freshmen with mathematics declared as a major.  This scholarship awards up to $4,000 for the first year at UNL, and students can re-apply every year for up to a total of four years.  After completing an application for admission to NEBRASKA, all incoming first-year mathematics majors are encouraged to apply by clicking the link below. The application will open on Tuesday, November 1, 2022, and the deadline to complete an application for 2023-24 academic year is Wednesday, February 1, 2023. Future application dates will be announced in September 2023.

Top candidates for the Eastman Scholarship may be asked to sit for an interview. Would you willing to sit for an in-person or virtual, in-person interview? Required
Please include the statement "I understand that to receive the Eastman Scholarship I must be enrolled in a College of Arts and Sciences degree program with at least one major in Mathematics." at the end of your application essay. For those who lost the opportunity to complete for a Math Day scholarship at Math Day 2020, please let us know if you feel that you would have placed in the Top 10 during the PROBE Exam competition.

Please provide the information of two writers who can provide a Letter of Recommendation and provide your writers the link below to submit their letters electronically.

https://www.math.unl.edu/letters-of-recommendation
Writer of Letter of Recommendation #1
Writer of Letter of Recommendation #2