Cincinnatus Scholarship

taxguy
Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:19:54 +0000

applesnbananas, the kids and the parents have their own separate programs. I can’t speak for the kids but can share with you the programs that occured about two + years ago.

It was a full day affair. We were put in giant room and given a general overview of the school and its programs. We were then broken up into sections who rotated among the various presentation.

One presenation was by current students from various schools describing campus life and and the academics. They were also there to answer any and all questions from parents.

There was a program on diversity and one cut skit involving kids who had some drug probelms or roommate programs, showing solutions that they should use to overcome or deal with these problems.

We also had a program at your child’s school of interest where we were given a lecture by the school on their programs. Each school such as DAAP, Arts and Science, Engineering, Business, Criminal Justice etc. has a program for both the kids and the parents on the expections of the school. They also had plenty of time for questions and answers.

The school also fed us for lunch,which was one of the worst meals that I have had. I couldn’t believe how bad lunch was.

There were other programs too that escape my recollection.

Overal, other than lunch. it as a very good, informative session.

As for the kids, they had math placement testing and , if they didn’t submit an essay for English placement,they had to write one there. I think that essay is a big factor in awarding the scholorships.

However, overall the reasons why one student gets a higher scholarship than another is very mysterious. To this day, I can’t figure that out,which makes the whole scholarship process rather strange.

Moreover, from what I have seen, there isn’t much of a corelation beween the top winners and performace in college. My daugher’s roommate won a founders award. Her roommate boyfriend did even better. Both did poorly in school while my daughter is probably in the top 10%-15% yet got the minimim award. There were several other cases of kids who won more than the minimum award doing poorly in school and some cases where they did well. There just didn’t seem to be any corelation.