One merit scholarship per high school?

madbean
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:30:37 +0000

I think it seems unlikely since each individual major/school at USC administers their own interviews, fills the panels, and makes the determinations for their department’s Trustee scholars independently. I can’t imagine that they then have to check all the other schools (i.e., clas, marshall, sca, thornton, et al) to coordinate such a restriction. Even within clas, for example, why discriminate among students at this elite level? Since USC’s incentive to give out big merit awards is to entice top students to attend, such a concern with sending high schools seems beside their main point. In other words, they are not trying to spread trustee awards around to a lot of HS’s- and these are not in lieu of FinAid or any other consideration.

Sometimes rumors crop up when those outside the system cannot make sense of who gets awarded top honors and who does not. Just my take.