Scholarship Program
The Ethiopian Ministry of Education forbids ICS Addis from enrolling Ethiopian students who pay tuition, because the school does not follow the Ethiopian national curriculum. The Ethiopian students enrolled at the school are allowed by the Ministry because they have citizenship in other countries, because their parents are in upper management at the school or because they have been learning outside Ethiopia and cannot reenter the Ethiopian school system.
Since the early 1990s, ICS Addis has offered four 4-year scholarships every year to rising ninth graders from schools throughout Addis Ababa. The scholarships are need-blind and are based on merit. The selection process begins in April with applications from the top students from public and private middle schools around the city. Applicants take a three-hour exam in reading, writing and mathematics. The top eight or ten applicants are invited for interviews with ICS faculty the following weekend. The students' parents are interviewed by current or former scholarship students' parents, to learn about the family and to give them more information about the school and what they might expect by accepting a scholarship. From the pool of interviewees, four students are selected. ICS's scholarship program allows the school to ensure an Ethiopian presence in the high school, with top academic students who add to classrooms, sports teams, community service clubs and other extracurricular programs.
The Scholarship Club hosts an Ethiopian Food Sale once or twice every year. The sale includes the traditional foods of Ethiopia; both fasting and non-fasting. Besides the food sale, the Scholarship Club also hosts a garage sale every year. These are funding programs, created to help the Scholarship Club financially.
Almost all of the ICS scholarship students go on to win full scholarships at universities in the USA. Scholarship students have been awarded four year scholarships to Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Vassar, Davidson, Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Amherst.
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