| I was nominated for the Danforth scholarship last year by my math teacher. It's an intensively competitive scholarship that's in my opinion much more advantageous for out-of-state students and give St. Louis high schoolers virtually no chance, although an 04' Senior from my school did receive the scholarship for the record. When I turned in my scholarship, I'm pretty sure I turned it in after the January regular college app. deadlines and as far as I've seen, my counselor did pretty much nothing because all of my transcript and recommendations, etc. they requested were the same ones used by my regular WashU app. When the application was mailed to me, the letter was composed of 1 page of Danforth scholarship information and 1 page of application. The application itself is very short and in sense is a condensed college app. It requests you to write 1 or 2(can't remember) brief essays. There is also a scholarship folder by WashU which lists several number of different scholarships issued by the school. There was one for each schools I think, african american students scholarship, community service, and more. Either case, each are extremely competitive and they receive thousands of applications for several limited number of scholarships. |