Real Estate Apprentice Hits new Record of 3,593 Applications 171 Make it Through to Second Round
Kansas City, (PRWEB) July 31, 2005
Fran White with Reece and Nichols, Mission @ 75th received notification that she was in the top 5% of applicants competing for a grant from the Real Estate Apprentice™ Foundation.
The Real Estate Apprentice™ Foundation announced that after careful review of the 3,593 applications received for Season II, the top 5% (171 applicants) have been selected to move to the second round. The evaluation of applicants’ essays was based on communication and salesmanship skills, entrepreneurial spirit, uniqueness and integrity. From the second round of applications the top 50 will be selected to move to round three. Each applicant in round three will have a one in two chance of making it into the semi-finalist group, which is then forwarded to The Foundation Judges http://www. realestateapprentice. com/judges. cfm (http://www. realestateapprentice. com/judges. cfm) for final examination.
The RealtyU® network of schools (http://www. realtyu. com/ (http://www. realtyu. com/)) garnished the lion’s share of round two contestants with a total number of 133 out of 171 while other, mainly online real estate schools, nabbed 38 of the spots. The Top 10 RealtyU® Schools included: Barney Fletcher RealtyU® in Atlanta (23), Champions School of Real Estate in Texas (18), IFREC Real Estate School in Orlando (14), Hogan School of Real Estate in Arizona (14), Polley Associates in Pennsylvania (12) Career Education Systems in Kansas and Missouri (9), Armbrust Real Estate Institute in Colorado (9), Middleton Real Estate Training in Michigan (7), Pro Ed in South Dakota (5) and Howard Perry & Walston Real Estate School in South Carolina (4).
According to the Deputy Director Dr. Martin Oliver, “The Real Estate Apprentice Grant is the only national non profit public benefit corporation created to enhance and improve residential real estate agents and to raise the standards and levels of professionalism for the real estate industry in general”.
The Real Estate Apprentice™ Grant awards 20 bi-annual grants totaling $250,000 per year. Two Grand Prize Grants are valued at approximately $75,000 each and eighteen Finalists grants are valued at $5,000 each. Finalists are selected through essay questions and interviews and are judged by a panel of industry leaders, authors, business professionals and top producers. The Apprentice mission is to assist newly licensed real estate agents entering the industry in overcoming the fears and obstacles associated with beginning a new career and to facilitate the development of top producing sales people by providing quality guidance, products and services to expedite a successful fast track to profitability. Grants awarded do not require any form of repayment.
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