How hard is it to get a scholarship?

guineagirl96
Fri, 24 Jun 2016 12:38:25 +0000

Applying ED doesn’t affect your chances at UR at getting merit aid, at least for the Richmond Scholar. I know multiple Richmond Scholars who applied ED, including one of my fellow Artist Scholars from my year, and Ive met a fair number of finalists who also applied ED (and then received presidential instead since they werent selected as scholars). We, as scholars, are specifically told that so we can tell prospective students (since this is something that UR does that a lot of schools don’t). In fact, ALL students that apply ED I are automatically considered for the Richmond Scholar.

I believe the same holds true for presidential scholar, but I’ve never been told that explicitly. Unfortunately, I don’t know anything about any ED specific scholarships.

And as far as the above claiming that the presidential scholar is a diversity award- that’s simply not true. It is straight merit and objective stats for it tend to be equal if not higher than Richmond Scholars (with the exception of Oldham scholars). The only diversity award I know of is the Oliver hill scholar and you have to also be a Richmond scholar to get that (iirc- I’m unaware about whether finalists for the Richmond Scholar that aren’t selected can become Oliver hill scholars).