Many students may not be aware that members of Student Government want to help them get scholarships.

A program started two years ago by a past student vice president for academic affairs matches students to scholarships they are eligible for, and lately has been bombarded with applications.

Jessica Catto, student vice president for academic affairs, said more scholarship search requests have been received in recent weeks than the total received last fall.

Two weeks before spring break, Catto said, 98 scholarship search requests were received and ever since she has been getting more each day. The total for the fall semester was 109, she said.

Catto encourages students to fill out the form.

“Everybody’s eligible for something,” she said.

Senate members have been getting the word out more to the Recognized Student Organizations they attend, Catto said.

Information forms can be picked up in the Student Activities Center, located on the second floor of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union across from Copy Express, Catto said.

The form asks for basic information that will be used to match scholarships through a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel, Catto said. Information includes name, address, phone number, grade point average, year in school, major, minor, ethnicity, high school, home town, home county, activities and if students feel they qualify for financial aid.

Scholarships on the spread sheet are the ones in Eastern’s catalog, and the Academic Affairs Committee last semester contacted the academic departments to see if they added new ones, Catto said.

Catto and members of the Academic Affairs Committee search the scholarships and write down the names and where to go to apply since deadlines vary.

Results are mailed usually within a week or two. However, Catto said results may take longer since so many requests have been received.