George H. Nofer Scholarship for Law
Direct application
Eligibility
About this scholarship
Full-time law students at an accredited U.S. law school with bilateral moderate-to-profound pre-lingual hearing loss (diagnosed before age four) who use listening and spoken language as their primary communication mode may apply through the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
AG Bell awards up to three George H. Nofer Scholarships of up to $5,000 each per year. Prior recipients may reapply in later years of law school if they completed at least nine credit hours in the prior academic year.
Applicants submit an application with audiogram results, proof of law school enrollment or acceptance, and other supporting materials. Hearing loss must meet the sponsor's Pure-Tone Average threshold in the better ear.
The scholarship honors George H. Nofer's service to AG Bell and his contributions to law and deafness research and education.
Essay questions
What else to submit
- Application
- Audiogram dated within the past 24 months or cochlear-implant programming report
- Proof of law-school application, acceptance, or enrollment
- Official transcripts
- Three letters of recommendation
- Applicant essay
- Leadership statement
- Statement about dealing with challenges from hearing loss
- Bilateral moderate-to-profound (moderately-severe to profound) pre-lingual hearing loss diagnosed before 4th birthday; unaided PTA of 60dB or greater in better ear (cochlear implant recipients automat
- Uses listening and spoken language as primary mode of communication
- Accepted at or enrolled full-time in an accredited law school for the academic year
- Audiogram (within last 24 months) for hearing aid users, or cochlear implant programming report for implant users
- Verification of application/acceptance/enrollment in the law school
- Official transcripts (undergraduate for rising graduate students; graduate for 1st/2nd year graduate students)
- Three letters of recommendation from three different individuals (max two single-sided pages each; at least one from a professor)
- Application submitted online as a single PDF to scholarships@agbell.org by the deadline
- Prior recipients may reapply in later law-school years if they completed at least nine credit hours in the prior academic year.