December 9, 2024 — The U.S. Department of State announced today that it has awarded the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to approximately 1,600 American undergraduate students from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, in the fall 2024 cycle. A second application cycle will be launched in mid January 2025. All scholarship recipients are U.S. undergraduate students with established high financial need as federal Pell Grant recipients. On average, 65 percent of Gilman recipients are from rural areas and small towns across the United States, and half are first-generation college or university students.
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