| I am a soon to be a Robertson Scholar at UNC. I think it's a program that everyone should apply for and eventually accept. The benefits are simply amazing (with a capital A). At UNC you get paid tuition, room and board, meals, three summers of travel and community service, a $3,000 stipend for laptops, and dual access to Duke (meaning up you take up to half your classes there versus the regular policy of just one course at the sister campus). At Duke you get full tuition. The value at UNC is estimated around $125,000 (out of state) and at Duke around $140,000. Duke also offers other merit scholarships like the Angier B. Duke (attracts science/engineering type people who are Siemens and Intel Westinghouse finalists), Benjamin N. Duke (North Carolina students only I believe), Reginaldo Howard (I believe African Americans), and the University Scholarship Program. One of my friends is going to be a A.B. Duke student next year. I turned down Yale and Swarthmore to accept the Robertson (just_forget_me declined the Robertson for the big H). Btw the Robertson tends to be more of a leadership, community service based award. (as a side note I think it will be a matter of years before the type of students who were named Robertson scholars will become the countries next top business, civic, and political leaders. Just give it time folks and wait and see) |