College Honor Scholarship for 2014?

uchicagoalum
Tue, 07 Jan 2014 17:48:34 +0000

The high value one’s are not related to financial aid in the sense that well off students are eligible. The three people I knew who had them all had at least one HYPSMC college offer, were STEM leaning on paper (people who hit graduate level science courses by their junior year), and I believe made Phi Beta Kappa (or certainly came close). All went on to ultra elite PhD or MD programs. The college is buying talent, plain and simple. It can be a good way to grab kids who show a ton of talent in pure math, for example, but would rather attend a comprehensive university vs. Cal Tech or MIT.