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Offer General Application in Other Language than English Merged

Is it possible to offer the General Application, Conditional Application(s) and any Apply-To opportunities in a language other than English if the main language is already English?

We are a Hispanic serving institution and being able to provide the scholarship application in Spanish to our students would be a great benefit. Currently, our ESL (English as a Second Language) students don't apply for scholarships because they are overwhelmed by the application and answering questions incorrectly. We offer assistance, however, it can take 40 minutes to help just one student. We also import most of the qualifying criteria from BANNER, but because a FAFSA is not required, we need to ask for certain financial information in the scholarship application itself, which can be confusing to a non-English speaker.


One thing we are unsure about is the review of these non-English scholarship applications. Most of our reviewers do not speak Spanish, so we would need the capability of having the personal statement either be translated back into English, or leave the personal statement as English only.


Thank you,

Ivena



  • Ivena Sakelarieva
  • Jan 29 2021
  • Reviewed: Voting Open
Client Name "shard name" sbcc
User System Admin
Functional Unit General Application
Employee Name Ivena Sakelarieva