<p>Also, if NHRP eliminated the 1/4 ths, then the cut off for the top 5000 would fall even more. So, I doubt that would add more automatic scholarships from any school. I remember seeing a memo coming from Auburn or UofAlabama last year, that tried to restrict scholarships to National Hispanic scholars with scores greater than 210. So, I do not think it was a question of how much hispanic a scholar was for these universities. I think it was a question of whether they could handle the rigorous courseload.</p>
<p>I wonder if the cutoff is the top 5% (rather than top 1-2%) is so they hope to capture more students who are mostly ethnically Hispanic. </p>
<p>If they required students to be at least half Hispanic and then took the top 2500 or so of those, then perhaps more schools would offer the scholarship.</p>
<p>Some schools tried to implement a req’t that NHRPs also had to have at least a 32 ACT or 1400 M+CR SAT, but again, I think the problem was that too many who had those additional req’ts weren’t really adding to diversity because they weren’t that ethnically Hispanic. </p>
<p>If the goal is to further ethnic diversity at a school, then awarding to students who are mostly White Europeans isn’t going to provide that.</p>