<p>I do well in HS because I love what I do: taking many of the classes that I like and participating in some activities that I love. I don’t even take a full senior course load, nor do I have tons of actitivities. I don’t think about how much scholarship I would get if I put in this much amount of work into my daily life. I work for myself, for my future and for… fun and fear, but definitely not for SMU. If SMU gives me any scholarship, they do it because they would like to build up a certain kind of class. To make it round, or square, to balance the races or diverse the regions, to teach the liberal arts or to train the engineers. That’s their call. They don’t owe me anything. Nothing. Nada. So, in the generous spirit of the Christmas season, I’d like to say thanks, SMU. If I ever decide to go to your school, I owe you a big one. And I promise I’ll give back to you someday, some way. I am not going to whine about how much you should give me, nor am I going to waive my hands with the big, bold, red entitlement banner. But, I admit, I’ve kept praying for more money to come. I need them. However, if I can afford, I’ll go. If I can’t, there are my state schools. I am not a God given gift to you, SMU. There are a lot more brighter, more hard-working, more accomplished 18-year old students than me.</p>
<p>^AMEN to that, derien! I couldn’t have said it better myself. That is EXACTLY how my family feels about such things! So refreshing to see our perspective here in print! :)</p>
<p>Good luck to you in the process, derien! :)</p>
<p>While I find both of your post above admirable, I also find them somewhat naive. A student (regardless of who they are or how wealthy their family may be) who works very hard during high school on academics and also accumulates massive amounts of EC’s deserves as much scholarship money as they can get. Schools compete for top academic students (thank goodness not just for athletes) for a reason and one way they do this is to pay for some or most of a well deserving student’s education at their institution. But hey, if you folks can afford to have a “take it or leave it” mentality with a total cost of $160K+, you are much better people than me…</p>
<p>I’m actually confused, Derien, about what is going on with your post. Haha.
In my case, I’m super involved, do tons of community service (actually about 200 hours so far), am in a lot of classes, did well on my tests, etc, but it was all for me. I didn’t do those things because I was thinking “Oh hey, i bet I can get more money if I take this class/do this activity!!” It was for me. Why can’t doing all of that be for me?</p>
<p>^northtexas i agree!</p>
<p>ANYWAY</p>
<p>I have a question about Provosts! I cannot find it on the website or any info about it. What exactly does it mean? How many people get it? Stuff like that. I know that some scholarships mean going to certain events etc. But what does this one mean overall???</p>
<p>northtexas and KollegeKid,
In our case, we certainly can’t “afford” to have a take it or leave it attitude. Like so many people here, my son cannot afford to attend SMU without major scholarships.</p>
<p>We just don’t feel “entitled” to those scholarships. We’re grateful for every dollar offered. If, in the end, SMU does not deem him worthy of those scholarships, then he’ll go somewhere more affordable… with no hard feelings.</p>
<p>We do HOPE he’ll be awarded enough scholarship money to attend SMU. So, I totally understand that everybody is hoping for more. Of course we all are.</p>
<p>But I truly do not feel like my son “deserves” the money. In no way is he entitled to it over any other “deserving” kid. SMU gets to choose who gets the money – and lots of kids are “qualified” for it. This is the way my whole family feels – for this kid, and for the kids who preceded this kid.</p>
<p>It’s interesting that you would call our position naive. I think it’s more aware. :)</p>
<p>KollegeKid,
On the Founders’ Scholars thread, johnangle said that SMU changed the names of all the scholarships. I guess that’s why we’re all having trouble looking into them.</p>
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<p>This thread is supposed to be about the actual provosts scholarship, not scholarships in general. Please keep your comments to being about the provosts scholarship or stet another threadfor your argument please!</p>
<p>I asked Johnangle to write in here about it but he said this thread had gotten annoying and off topic so he dIdnt really want to to.</p>
<p>Please keep to the subject matter!!!</p>
<p>Also received Provost. Received Cox BBA Scholar, too, so far.
Stats: ACT 35 (Math 36, English 35), GPA 4.1 (not a lot of AP’s at my school), many service/academic awards, love my volunteer work. Accepted at other well-respected schools, so waiting for a clear view of the bottom line, financially-speaking. Very grateful for SMU’s generosity.</p>