Alumni Distinguished Scholorship Competition

fa-la-la-lena
Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:14:05 +0000

Bearsbeets, there is a cost to attend (I believe last year it was $65, including the test, food and lodging for one night).

I did take the test last year; impossibly hard (combine every single AP test in existence and the curriculum still wouldn’t cover all the test questions). Of the 1100 students who took the exam last year, ~120 got some sort of monetary award, ranging from thousand dollar scholarships to full rides.

d101parent, as far as letters go they seem to come out in waves. So it might be towards the end of November/beginning of December that your son will be invited by letter (which is almost a guarantee, as he is in both honors/professorial assistantship). The competition is in the first two weekends of February, I believe