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[Bohdan Oryshkevich <bohdan_oryshkevich@verizon.net>]

Dear Friends:

 

We at the USA/USA Program feel that the intelligent selection of students from

Ukraine for our USA/USA Program is an important responsibility.  We therefore

would benefit from your input and advice in this process. 

 

There are many interesting essays from students from all regions of Ukraine. 

Also, all students have to submit five books that they have read.  This gives us an

insight into what students in Ukraine read.  We are overwhelmed with application

materials and would benefit from assistance in the collation of this interesting information.

 

We invite you to contact us if you are interested in helping us select students for the

USA/USA Seminar 2008.  You can write to us at: info@ukrainianscholarships.org or

phone 1-212-785-4170.  We are conveniently located in the financial district of lower

Manhattan close to multiple subway lines and the PATH system not to mention Express

Buses.  We can arrange for readings on weekends and in evenings. 

 

You will help us select our USA/USA Seminar 2008 students from 164 registered

candidates from all across Ukraine.  The selected students will be competing against

students from around the world (Bulgaria, Korea, Romania, Turkey, Nepal) for

scholarships to many of the world’s best universities.  Our registration is nearly

complete. 

 

We may end up with as many as 170 registrants even though the deadline passed

on June 15.  Of these 170 candidates perhaps, perhaps 130 will submit rigorously

complete applications.  Our information on these students includes the numbers

of years of study of Ukrainian, Russian, English, Maths, and other languages.

 

Our applicants are currently undergoing testing all across Ukraine.  For the schedule

of testing in Ukraine visit our website at www.ukrainianscholarships.org.

 

Our registrants come from 25 administrative regions of Ukraine.  Sevastopol and

Kyiv City are considered separate oblasts.  As always, the number of young women

exceeds the number of men.  The percent of women to men has remained remarkably

stable over the years.  Chernivtsi and Kirovohrad oblasts did not send any applicants

this year.  Chernihiv oblast sent the most with eighteen applications.

 

About fifty of these registrants will demonstrate adequate English language skills

on objective testing.  Thirty eight of these registrants spent at least a year studying

in the USA.  Thirty five as a result of the FSA/FLEX program.  Two as a result of

their mother being a Fulbright scholar.  One as a result of temporary emigration. 

 

When we select students we seek not only to find the brightest candidates but to

create an ensemble that will give back to our program and will play a constructive

role in the world.  This is not an easy task.  We also search for students who have

a specific intellectual interest, passion or ambition or who cannot realize their

talents in Ukraine.

 

Thank you for your attention.

 

Information about the registrations is below.

 

Bohdan A. Oryshkevich

Founder, USA/USA

New York City

 

2008 Registrants

 

Male                 49

Female             115

Total                 164

           

Oblast  

Volyn                4

Zaporizhzhia      5

Crimea            8

Sevastopol       2

Poltava           4

Dnipropetrovsk   13

Kharkiv              12

Donetsk          9

Vinnitsa          5

Rivne                12

Zhytomir            8

Luhansk            2

Kherson          9

Chernihiv           18

Khmelnitsky     8

Kyiv City           6

Sumy            9

Ternopil            3

Mykolayiv         5

Ivano-Frankivsk 10

Lviv                  4

Odesa              2

Zakarpattia       1

Kyiv oblast        3

Cherkassy      2

Total                164

           

Year of Graduation        

2008     42

2009     76

2010     31

2011     13

?          2

Total     164

 

 

Year of Birth     

1990     9

1991     55

1992     54

1993     33

1994     11

1995     1

?          1

Total     164

 

Registrants by City Size

> 800,000                        20

350,000 to 800,000          24

100,000 to 350,000          51

50,000 to 100,000            29

25,000 to 50,000              14

< 25,000                         26