Matthew Miller, SRA & Dr. Laura Miller Endowed Scholarship

The Miller’s met in 1988 at WIU while both working at Aurelio’s Pizza, pursuing degrees in History (‘92) and Psychology (’92).

Matthew has been a Real Estate Appraiser since 1993 and started what would become Rally Appraisal in 1998. Rally Appraisal has 22 locations in 6 states which are Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and Wisconsin. Matthew is designated as an SRA member of Appraisal Institute and received two Alumni Achievements Awards from Western Illinois University.

After graduating from WIU, Laura pursued her Doctorate of Chiropractic graduating from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1997 and had been a licensed Chiropractor in the State of Iowa since that time.

Downstate Illinois is currently underserved by Real Estate Appraisers in many areas and this can be a very satisfactory career path in terms of both quality of life, and economic opportunity. It is also one that flies under the radar and most people are not aware of it or how to purse it as a career path. The scholarship is intended to help interested students purse this career path or other Real Estate fields through WIU. Rally has many WIU graduates currently on staff in locations in Illinois, Iowa and Missouri.

CRITERIA & ELIGIBILITY:

• Freshman, Sophomore, Junior or Senior
• Declared Major in Business, Finance or Accounting
• Minimum cumulative 2.5 GPA
• Home geographic location in the following counties: Adams County, IL, Alexander County, IL, Bond County, IL, Boone County, IL, Brown County, IL, Bureau County, IL, Calhoun County, IL, Carroll County, IL, Cass County, IL, Champaign County, IL, Christian County, IL, Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Clinton County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, DeKalb County, IL, DeWitt County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Fayette County, IL, Ford County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Fulton County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Greene County, IL, Grundy County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Hancock County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Henderson County, IL, Henry County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Jackson County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Jefferson County, IL, Jersey County, IL, Jo Daviess County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Kankakee County, IL, Kendall County, IL, Knox County, IL, LaSalle County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Lee County, IL, Livingston County, IL, Logan County, IL, Macon County, IL, Macoupin County, IL, Madison County, IL, Marion County, IL, Marshall County, IL, Mason County, IL, Massac County, IL, McDonough County, IL, McLean County, IL, Menard County, IL, Mercer County, IL, Monroe County, IL, Montgomery County, IL, Morgan County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Ogle County, IL, Peoria County, IL, Perry County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Pike County, IL, Pope County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Putnam County, IL, Randolph County, IL, Richland County, IL, Rock Island County, IL, Saint Clair County, IL, Saline County, IL, Sangamon County, IL, Schuyler County, IL, Scott County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Stark County, IL, Stephenson County, IL, Tazewell County, IL, Union County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Warren County, IL, Washington County, IL, Waynee County, IL, White County, IL, Whiteside County, IL, Williamson County, IL, Winnebago County, IL, Woodford County, IL,
• Preference given to a student pursuing a real estate track
• Scholarship is renewable for a second year if the student meets all criteria and has chosen the real estate track.