Under the aegis of the program committee, a well-organized procedure for the solicitation and processing of scholarship applications exists. In the 1997-98 school year, some 1050 application forms were distributed to deserving students through 105 network agents, consisting of 68 normal school instructors, 32 primary school teachers, and 5 educators in the People's Republic of China; 720 students submitted scholarship applications.

The program committee established a file for each applicant. Applications were then evaluated in three rounds. The first evaluation was undertaken by college professors who ranked applicants on a scale of 1 to 3, 3 being for the "best applicants," 2 for "fair applicants" and 1 for applicants lacking qualification. The second evaluation was also made by professors, and the final evaluation by committee members. Of the top-ranking students, 257 scored 9 points, achieving "3" in each round of evaluation; and 174 students scored 8 points. Happily, it proved possible to grant scholarships to all of these 361 deserving students.