President's Scholar Question

G.P.Burdell
Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:47:18 +0000

It actually works the other way. They accept the “obvious accept” students (e.g. 30 ACT, 3.8 UW GPA), then those students are sent to the PSP for consideration (so you’re in before they ever even consider the scholarship). They only reject the “obvious reject” students (e.g. 25 ACT, 3.2 UW GPA), and everyone else goes into the deferred pile.

So there’s really no negative to applying early. If you are rejected early, you would have been rejected regular admission anyway. If you are deferred, you get the same consideration as everyone else in regular admissions.

Realistically, what you’re proposing doesn’t make any sense either. The PSP students are roughly the top 0.5% of the admissions pool. Why would Tech reject someone just slightly worse than the top 0.5%?