Tehillah Wilson
  • chemistry
  • Washington, DC

Tehillah Wilson receives Merit Scholarship

2015 Aug 12

SUNY Oswego has awarded a Merit Scholarship and a Destination Oswego scholarship to Tehillah Wilson of Washington. The award recognizes past academic achievement and potential for success.

Wilson reserved a place in the incoming class for the fall semester, majoring in chemistry. She last studied at Friendship Edison College Academy, and was scheduled to begin classes Aug. 24 at Oswego.

SUNY Oswego honored more than 800 incoming freshmen with merit scholarships. Outstanding first-year students are offered $18,800 Presidential Scholarships ($4,700 a year for up to four years), $6,000 Deans' Scholarships ($1,500 a year for up to four years), $3,000 Merit Scholarships ($750 a year for up to four years) and, for outstanding students from outside New York state, Destination Oswego scholarships of $5,000 to $8,000 a year.

The awards are part of about $5 million in merit scholarship money offered at SUNY Oswego. These funds are in addition to the more than $80 million in need-based grants, loans, work-study and scholarship awards that SUNY Oswego students receive annually.

Admission to SUNY Oswego is competitive. U.S. News Media Group counts SUNY Oswego among the top public regional universities in the North for 2015, and the Princeton Review includes Oswego in its 2015 college guidebook "The Best Northeastern Colleges," as well as its 2015 list of "best value" colleges and universities nationally. Kiplinger's also named SUNY Oswego a Best Value College for 2015.

A 154-year-old comprehensive college in the State University of New York system, Oswego enrolls about 8,000 students in its College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; School of Business; School of Communication, Media and the Arts; and School of Education.

Visit oswego.edu for more information.