Presidential Scholarship

Matachines
Sun, 28 Sep 2014 16:21:06 +0000

There’s no sure way to tell if you are going to get it or not, but for these scholarships ECs do not matter at all. It’s all stats (these scholarships, aside from being great, attract high stat students to Fordham which helps the school’s look.) I know a couple of Presidential scholarship people and their ECs weren’t that impressive. Basically, if you have great, Ivy/top school level SAT/GPA, apply to Fordham. You’re bound to get good money. Maybe things changed from 2012 though.

I got the Semifinalist one, which requires you to be a National Merit Scholar (which I was), A or A- average (which I got), and apparently the top 1-2% in your class (which I was definitely not). So I guess that one is used to attract National Merit Scholars to Fordham.