Endowed Scholarship Question

ash316mom
Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:18:04 +0000

Sent the email with the questions about the alternate list for the Endowed Scholarship and this is part of the response I received…"At this point, the alternate list for Endowed Scholarships is not ranked. Because different scholarships have different gender and geographic criteria for the awards, we wait to rank students until an award becomes available. For example, it would do you absolutely no good to be the first alternate if a space for the Watson Scholarship opens up because that award is restricted to NC Residents. You are an alternate for two of our awards: the Georgeo Scholarship ($7500/year) and the Susan Scholarship ($12000/year). The number of alternates awarded each year varies. Some years, I am able to award 10+ to alternate students, sometimes only a couple.

I will be honest, the current alternate pool is deep but it has to be. We started out with approximately 220 alternates on Friday. I just checked my list at lunch today and we are down to 180. The reality is students will continue to drop off quickly as we approach the May 1 deadline. By the end of April, I am usually lucky to have 20-30 students left in the alternate pool. In my experience, alternate students who are willing to stay with us until that May 1 deadline generally have the best odds of receiving one of the awards. That said, I also understand how hard it is to wait to make your college decision, especially when your friends are talking about where they are going in the fall and have everything settled. We did not phone interview every alternate student, so that means that you are certainly in the priority pool we will consider if and when the opportunity arises."

Hope this helps