Chances for AB Scholar (full ride)

Ouroboros313
Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:56:00 +0000

Yeah, it’ll help with getting in.

I never said it was fair with who gets these scholarships. The ones I know are the children of academics, so they already have ties to a university and generally have a leg up on everyone else. Not a lot of people have publications pre-college precisely because not a lot of people have the opportunity to do real research. That’s just the world we live in.

These types of scholarships are given on an absolute merit basis, so it isn’t relative to the situation in your life. Some people start off with more advantages than others. These types of scholarships are to reward those who actually did something with those advantages rather than just party and be generally lazy. Financial aid is to help the people who had no access to those advantages.