Scholarship Application
Tigertail Virtual Museum

 

"I don't have the money to help the Tigertail Virtual Museum, but I want to gain all the member privileges for free."

In response to several comments that were not phrased quite as clearly as the one above, we decided we will give six-month courtesy memberships to deserving applicants. We call these scholarships. Who is deserving of a scholarship and who is not is the right of Tigertail Associates to decide; there is no fairness involved in the decision, and the decision is final.

You may wonder at all the relatively personal questions asked below. It helps us figure out what sorts of things we can and can't do in the museum—as well it gives us demographic data so that we can go to funding organizations that might help us. We would love to have all this information from our regular members, but we felt that they were giving to help us and we should keep our intrusion on them to a minimum.

There is a saying: Beggars can't be choosers. So if you want a free account then there are things you have to give up. This information is what you give up. Note that if your request doesn't look reasonable or is inconsistent then it is our option to throw it in the round file. One of our staff really reads the form and makes a decision on what they see. You can always make comments on this process in the essay, somebody will read them.

Now don't be irritated it is your choice.

If you want to apply for a 6 month free TVM Scholarship—fill out the following form.

"I think I'll pay the $25 and join the TVM support team."

"No thanks ... take me back to the Museum, I'll settle for small images."

TVM Scholarship Application Form

 

First Name: * Middle Initials: Family Name: *

Address: *
   
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Sex: *     Year of Birth: *    Occupation: *

 If you are related to a School or College/University fill out this section.

Relationship to School:

School Name: , School Type:

School Location City:   State: Country:

If want to use this site to help with class work, tell us which class: .

If you are a doctor, lawyer, or in business, you should be ashamed of yourself.
Check this box to show you are:

Demographic Information:

Family Income.

Number of people who live together with you in a family unit (include yourself)

Number of working TVs in the home or apartment.

Number of working Computers in the home or apartment.

Number of different phone lines(numbers) that connect to your home or apartment.

Access to the Internet. Download Speed:
(If you have Internet access describe it; if not select the place where you usually do your browsing).  

A little 200 word, multi-line (English language) paragraph describing yourself and why you need a scholarship:

 

E-mail address:             *

E-mail address (again): *

Note! We will mail you after your application has been processed. If this email address doesn't work, you won't
get notified. Your email address will also serve as your user-id to access the extra material on the
Tigertail site.

We have some museum scholarships that come from people who wish to help some category of applicants ( e.g. art students or poor people in New Jersey). Not all the information you give us directly may be enough to make a scholarship available. We will use information from your paragraph to try and match you to an outside scholarship. If you do match one of these scholarship categories we will send you email telling you who the donor was and how to thank him. We will also tell him your name and email address and give them a copy of the paragraph you wrote describing yourself and why you need a scholarship. With this he can contact you through email.

I don't want to be considered for a outside scholarship.
If you check this box we will only consider you for a Tigertail Associates scholarship.
However only 50 Tigertail scholarships are given each week.

Don't reveal my name, email address, or my location to the sponsor.
We will send them the paragraph you wrote in any case, so don't include
anything in your paragraph you don't want a sponsor to see.
(If you clicked the first box, whatever you do here is meaningless.)

* Indicates a field that must be completed in the form.

The Fine Print:

All the information including your little essay becomes the property of Tigertail Associates. On our part we promise that all personal information that we get from your application will be used: to make decisions about your application, for our records, to limit access to adult material, or to contact you if there are any problems. We may occasionally use your information to inform you of changes to the website or to tell you about new policies we may institute. The statistical summaries of information we collect may be used at our discretion, for example to provide information to possible funders; personally identifiable information will not be disclosed to any third party. We certainly will NOT sell or release email lists of our members. We hate spam as much as you undoubtedly do.

2004-05-31