<p>Our son starts the fall as a Presidential scholar. For those of you still working on test scores make sure and have your student take both the SAT and ACT. Your test scores do not have to qualify on both just one of the tests and some students seem to do better on one than the other. SAT score for our son would have not have qualified for Presidential but he qualified with ACT (SAT was very close). (Hope our younger son can get the qualifying scores during his up coming high school jr year). Living in an eastern state the SAT seems to be the primary focus and test pushed at high school (I believe our son may have been the only student in his grad. class to take the ACT) but we moved here from an ACT state (midwest/great plains) so had our son take both and it paid off.</p>
<p>Other great thing was our son was notified before Christmas break about being awarded the scholarship; just make sure you apply by deadline. Last year it was Dec 4th (I believe our son completed his app on 3 Dec and heard back by the 18th or 19th of Dec). </p>
<p>South Carolina came through with some good offers but it was March and our son had already made up his mind and had started to acquire an orange and blue wardrobe. Clemson notifed us about out of state tuition waiver early but other offers came late relative to Auburn.</p>
<p>War Eagle!!</p>