Scholarships

2010 IEM SCHOLARSHIP WINNER ANNOUNCED:

Congratulations to Alexis Nicole Guzman, age 17, of Corona. Alexis submitted the highest scoring essay for this year's competition. We had a great turn out this year with over 30 essays submitted. Alexis currently attends Loma Linda Academy and will be attending UCLA in the fall. She plans to become a physician. Her essay has been forwarded on to the Mensa Regional competition.
2010 IEM Winning Essay

The Mensa Education & Research Foundation college scholarship program bases its awards totally on essays written by the applicants. Consideration is not given to grades, academic program or financial need.

The scholarship process begins during the first week of September and ends with the scholarship application deadline of December 1.

Inland Empire Mensa chooses up to 3 winners per year, and draws candidates from anyone within our geographical boundaries who wishes to apply. Winners of our scholarships are automatically entered in the Regional contest, and those winners advance to the U.S. Mensa Scholarship finals.

The U.S. scholarship program is very large in the geographic area it covers (usually about 75 percent of the country), the number of applications (4,000 to 6,000 in recent years), and the amount of money available for awards (nearly $60,000 in 2004-2005). Applicants need not be Mensa members.

The Foundation's U.S. scholarship program is operated by approximately 400 volunteers around the country with support by the Foundation Director and American Mensa's office staff.

Contact our Scholarship Chair with any questions at scholarship@iemensa.us.

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