Is being nominated for the Morehead-Cain Scholarship a good selling point as an academic honor on your college applications, or might this turn off schools other than UNC, or even worse - hurt admissions?

If it’s helpful, my oldest was in for Morehead, Park and finalist for Robertson. They did not include any of them on their applications that were school specific, they did include being a Coca-Cola Semifinalist. It was only to that round during applications and they didn’t make it further anyway. Don’t know if it was right or wrong to do, but they had a slot open, and did well enough with admission. Good luck to your kid, I think doing the extra scholarships really helped with quality of regular decision supplementals.

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