Scholarships

CAAM – Stanley Chong Scholarship Applicants

Merit and need-based scholarships for individuals of Chinese descent for undergraduate college tuition.

Application Deadline for the school year 2023 – 2024:January 14th, 2024

Eligibility

An applicant must be:

  1. Of Chinese descent,
  2. A resident of Minnesota and American citizen/permanent resident,
  3. A senior in high school for the 2022-2023 year, with unweighted accumulated GPA 3.5 or above.
  4. Applicant must agree and promote CAAM’s mission.
  5. Applicant and/or parents have actively participated in CAAM-organized, co-organized or sponsored events in the past Five years.
  6. For Need-based applicants, with unweighted accumulated GPA 3.0 or above, must provide FAFSA or the latest 3-year Federal Tax Return Forms.

Please read the above Eligibility information carefully before submitting your application.

 Evaluation Criteria

  1. Applicants must meet all the eligibility requirements listed above.
  2. Applicants will be evaluated on their academic records, including extra curriculums, leadership qualities, and community services, including both CAAM and other community service experiences.
  3. Failure to maintain acceptable academic performance and exemplary behavior throughout the school year may result in the revocation of the scholarship.

Application Checklist

  1. Application Form must be typed (handwriting is not acceptable).
  2. Applicant needs to provide:

1)  A Cover Letter,  2)  Application Form with the signature and date,  3)  The latest  official transcript from the most recent school attended (should be  submitted by the school).  4) Three Letters of Recommendation: at least two from a teacher of the recent academic  years and a mentor or advisor (Note: All the letters must be written specifically to CAAM for this scholarship and not be sent out by the applicant, otherwise they will not be accepted and consequently the application will NOT be considered.)

  1. Any proofs showing your participation of CAAM events or other community volunteer services are welcomed.
  2. All the individual files submitted for this scholarship application must be named by the following format as: Last name First name_document name (such as Cover Letter, Application Form or Recommendation Letter, etc), for example: Aihua Liu_Cover Letter or Aihua Liu_Application Form; otherwise, it will not be accepted.
    Note: Incomplete application will NOT be considered.  

Please make sure if your emails are truly sent out by checking your Sent folder. You should also be able to receive a short confirmation email from [email protected] right after your application materials are submitted.

Application Form

Download the scholarship application form  (PDF) or (MS Word) (Note: You need to Copy and Paste the link address of this Word file in a new window of your browser to download this form).

How and Where to Submit Application Materials

All the application materials must be submitted by email to:

[email protected]

Application Deadline: January 14, 2024

The status of the scholarship application will be notified to each applicant shortly after the application deadline, and again after application material has been reviewed, respectively.

Recipients will be required to attend the scholarship award ceremony sometime between May and June, 2024.

Recipients will be required to provide CAAM with a recent color portrait photo for news report and one-page biography about what goal or aspiration you hope to achieve with the help of the CAAM-Stanley Chong Scholarship.

The recipients will automatically become members of CAAM with good standing after turning 18 years old; one year CAAM membership will be offered to their parents will become members of CAAM as well.

好消息: 一年一度的Minnesota中美联谊会(CAAM)Stanley Chong 奖助学金申请开始啦!家住明州在读的十二年级华裔学生 (美国公民或永久居民)都可以申请。申请截止日期是01/14/2024。 详细信息可以参考明州中美联谊会网站(https://www.caam.org/scholarships/)

Scholarship Recipients in the School Year of 2022 - 2023:

English News Report on 2022 - 2023 CAAM-Stanley Chong Scholarship Award Ceremony by China Insight

English Name Chinese Name High School Accepted College
Andrew Bai 白珂岩 Summit University of California at Berkeley
Sunny Cai 蔡珊珊 Wayzata University of Wisconsin at Madison
Ethan Chen 陈登杰 Minnetonka Northwestern University
Zeqiyun Chen 陈泽绮芸 EastView University of California at Berkeley
Jerry K Cheng 程康毅 Woodbury Carnegie Mellon University
Brian Hu 胡博睿 Eden Prairie University of Minnesota in Twin Cities
Ryan Jiang 蒋培涵 Edina Harvard University
Emily Leung 梁曼晴 Edina Dartmouth College
Tammy Liu 刘丽珍 North High University of Minnesota in Twin Cities
Renjay Teo 张仁杰 Shakopee University of Minnesota in Twin Cities
Buo-En Wee 黄博恩 Maple Grove University of Minnesota in Twin Cities
Lynn Wilcox 牛希望 Highland Columbia University
Nathan Wu 屋内森 Wayzata University of Pennsylvania
Evelyn Yang 杨    琳 Edina University of Minnesota in Twin Cities
Steven S Yang 阳思达 Wayzata Duke University
Rachel Zou 邹瑞祺 Mouns View University of Minnesota in Twin Cities

Scholarship Recipients in the School Year of 2021 - 2022:

English News Report on 2021 – 2022 CAAM-Stanley Chong Scholarship Award Ceremony by China Insight

Chinese News Report on 2021 – 2022 CAAM-Stanley Chong Scholarship Award Ceremony by Minnesota Times

SN English Name Chinese Name High School
1 Ava Chen 陈思慜 Minnetonka High School
2 Zhou Benson 民冬州 Minnetonka High School
3 Charlie Chen 陈嘉理 Roseville Area High School
4 Kaelyn Chen 陈凯伦 Mahtomedi Senior High School
5 Kevin Dai 戴乐乐 Wayzata High School
6 Shi-Wei Kong 江思伟 Maple Grove Senior High School
7 Julianne Mason 安子灵 Cretin-Derham Hall High School
8 Anna Wang 王安娜 Edina High School
9 William Walker 周威廉 Minnetonka High School
10 Chris Yan 李    韬 Mounds View High School

Scholarship Recipients in the School Year of 2020-2021:

News Report on 2020-2021 CAAM-Stanley Chong Scholarship Award Ceremony by China Insight

SN English Name Chinese Name High School
1 Hannah Buss N/A Buss Homeschool
2 Huan Chen 陈欢巧 White Bear Lake Area High School
3 Leo Cui 崔征路 Mounds View High School
4 Richard Gu 顾    博 Wayzata High School
5 Claire Ku 辜靖慈 Wayzata High School
6 Echo Grey Qing Nelson N/A Eagan High School
7 Sydney Peng 彭雨荞 Mounds View High School
8 Bryanna Shao 邵悦然 Wayzata High School
9 Cynthia Shao 邵奕然 Wayzata High School
10 Jason Wang 王若阳 Irondale High School
11 Claire Wilcox 惜    静 Highland Park Senior High School
12 Issac Wu 吴宇晨 Edina High School
13 Joey Wu 吴友中 South Washington Country School
14 Kelly Wu 吴格格 Prior Lake High School
15 Andrew Yang 杨    洋 Wayzata High School
16 Dylan Yang 杨宇函 Eden Prairie High School
17 Kelly Zeng 曾辰欣 Wayzata High School
18 Xiaoxin Zeng 曾筱昕 Jefferson High School
19 Audrey Zhou 周宇琴 Wayzata High School

Scholarship Recipients in the School Year of 2019-2020:

News Report on 2019-2020 CAAM-Stanley Chong Scholarship Award Ceremony by Minnesota Chinese Life (Chinese version)(link)

SN English Name  Chinese Name High School
1 Andrew Cheng 程康瑞 East Ridge High School
2 Leora Derechin N/A Hopkins High School
3 Ana J. Dolny 佳    欢 Washburn High School
4 Kevin Gao 高    乐 Eden Prairie High School
5 Natalie Ku 辜晨歆 Wayzata High School
6 Brian Lin 林训生 Wayzata High School
7 Matthew Liu 刘浩文 Mounds View High School
8 Daniel Ren 任卓航 Lakeville North High School
9 Xinze Tan 谭欣泽 Wayzata High School
10 Jiayang Tang 唐嘉阳 Eagan High School
11 Amy Wang 王艾米 Edina High School
12 Iris Xu Wang N/A Wayzata High School
13 Emily Yang 杨乐颖 Wayzata High School
14 Lucy Yang 杨    璐 Edina High School
15 Xinyue Yin 尹欣悦 Minnetonka High School
16 Mina Zhang 张明娜 Wayzata High School
17 Shihang Zhang 张世航 Irondale High School
18 Tony Zhang 张海潮 Blaine High School
19 Aunika Zheng 郑雨沁 Mounds View High School

Scholarship Recipients in the School Year of 2018-2019:

SN Name
1 Summer Ahern
2 Preston P Chan
3 Jedidiah Chang
4 Lucas Chow
5 Jade Kim Diep-Ha
6 Katherine L Hardie
7 Anna M Kasper
8 Shi-Ning A Kong
9 Esther Kuah
10 Bridget Lai
11 Carlos Lares
12 John Lei
13 Paul W Liang
14 Ian C Lim
15 Li F Liu
16 Frank Lu
17 Lauren Moy
18 Paige Moy
19 Elizabeth Anne Lixing Pirjevec
20 Mingyue Tan
21 Buojing Wee
22 Austin Wu
23 Ethan F Wu
24 Michael Daiming Xia
25 Jeremy Yeung
26 Jonathan Yeung
27 Tianmao Yuan
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