Application Process

(1) The student must apply to TSAC for the graduate nursing loan by the established priority application date as required by TSAC. (2) First priority shall be given to renewal applicants received by the priority application date. (3) Second priority shall be given to applicants who provide satisfactory evidence to TSAC that they expect to enter a full-time teaching position in a Tennessee nursing education program immediately upon completion of their master’s or post-master’s degree program and who ap- ply by the priority application date. (4) Third priority shall be given to applicants who provide satisfactory evidence to TSAC that they expect to enter a part-time teaching position in a Tennessee nursing education program im- mediately upon completion of their master’s or post-master’s degree program and who apply by the priority application date. (5) Fourth priority will be given to applicants who provide satisfactory evidence to TSAC that they expect to enter a full-time administrative position in a Tennessee nursing education pro- gram immediately upon completion of their master’s or post-master’s degree program and who apply by the priority application date. (6) Fifth priority will be given to applicants who provide satisfactory evidence to TSAC that they expect to enter a part-time administrative position in a Tennessee nursing education program immediately upon completion of their master’s or post-master’s degree program and who apply by the priority application date. GRADUATE NURSING LOAN-SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM CHAPTER 1640-01-03 (7) Sixth priority shall be given to applications received after the priority application date. Ap- plications will be awarded based on the date of receipt. (8) Applicants shall be grouped according to the priority assigned to their application. Should available funds be exhausted before all eligible applicants have received an award, appli- cants in the lowest priority grouping for which funds are available shall be distinguished by the date of receipt of their application by TSAC and awards shall be made to those applicants with the earliest dates of receipt until all available funds are expended.