The Thomas and Elsie Deeley Foundation does not place any restrictions on the choice of schools. Scholarship recipients are free to select any college or university they wish to attend. Our scholarship recipients have attended 15 different colleges and universities.
Number of Scholarship Recipients By School
The chart below shows the colleges and universities selected/attended by our scholarship recipients. It also indicates the percentage of students who have attended each school. Some students transferred to other colleges or spent two years at the Waterbury UConn Branch before moving on to the main UConn campus at Storrs, and they are included in the totals for both schools.
While we do not place any restrictions on the colleges our students attend, it is worth noting that about half of our scholarship recipients attend one of our partner colleges. This is not surprising because we seek to form partnerships with those colleges that most of our applicants are interested in attending.
Scholarship Funding By College/University
The Deeley Foundation has awarded over $2,600,000 in scholarships to students. With the increase in the number of partnerships with colleges and universities, we expect the number of students receiving scholarships and the amount of these awards to increase. The following chart summarizes the value of our scholarship awards by institution.
Profiles of Our Scholarship Recipients
All of our applicants are required to meet the basic criteria to be eligible for one of our scholarships:
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- Community Involvement
- Academic Accomplishments
- Work Experience
- Extra-Curricular Activities
- Financial Need
- College Goals
- Personal Interview
However, the criteria we look for are somewhat intangible. We are looking for someone we feel is going to “make a difference”. It can be a student who has a real passion for something, who demonstrates a unique set of skills (academic and/or social) that is impressive, or who has positively impacted other students.
These intangible qualities transcend simple academic accomplishments. Although academic achievement is a significant factor, it is just one of many. The academic standing of our recipients varies widely. By far, the largest single segment of scholarship recipients is those with a class rank other than the top 10% of their graduating high school class. About twice as many students are in this latter category as is shown in the following chart for all our recipients, including the students still in college.
The chart below shows the types of degrees earned by our scholarship recipients who have already graduated from college compared to their high school class rankings. We find there is virtually no difference in academic success at college between these two categories of students.
As can be seen from the above chart, significant numbers of students have gone on to obtain advanced degrees. Over half of our scholarship recipients have done so, and several have received multiple advanced degrees.
The number of males and females awarded a Deeley Foundation scholarship varies from year to year. However, since our inception, our scholarship awards are about equally distributed between female and male recipients, as can be seen from the chart below:
Locations of The Colleges and Universities Attended
Most of our recipients attend schools in Connecticut and the northeast, but students have also attended schools in states as far away as Michigan and Florida. Here is a list of some of the colleges and universities our scholarship recipients have attended:
Boston College
Boston University
Castleton University
Central Connecticut State University
Coastal Carolina University
Connecticut State Community College
Eastern Connecticut State University
Fairfield University
Gordon College
Hampton University
Marist College
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy
Massachusetts Maritime Academy
Middlebury College
Providence College
Quinnipiac University
Regis College
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Sacred Heart University
Southern Connecticut State University
St. John’s University
St. Lawrence University
Stonehill College
University of Connecticut
UConn Branch of Waterbury
University of Central Florida
University of Rhode Island
University of New Haven
University of Scranton
University of St. Joseph
Western Connecticut State University
Western Michigan University
Williams College
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Here is a map indicating the states where our scholarship recipients have gone to school.
Those students who attend graduate school do so mostly on the East Coast corridor, ranging from Massachusetts to Florida. Advanced degrees have been earned at a variety of colleges and universities, such as Yale University, Fairfield University, Florida State University, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, the University of New Haven, Fordham University, Syracuse University, Central Connecticut State University, Southern Connecticut State University, the University of Connecticut, and Scranton University.