<p>And in my third post today I shall explain how scholarship recipients are selected and how being EA doesn’t matter in a nicely numbered list.</p>
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<li>Scholarship recipients are chosen from the pool of admitted applicants. Admissions counselors pick some people they think should be considered for scholarships, and these applications go to a faculty committee. These people review the suggested apps and choose scholarship winners and which scholarship (full tuition or third tuition) the applicant receives. If you are an EA applicant, you get a scholarship notification in a lovely folder when the regular decision kids get their admissions decisions. If you are a regular decision kid, you will be notified of a scholarship if you receive one WITH your admissions decision. There is no “Sorry, you did not get a scholarship” letter for EA kids, unfortunately.
Which leads me to…</li>
<li>EA. I was EA and still got a scholarship. Don’t freak out. If they want you to have a scholarship, it doesn’t matter if you’re EA or RD. Your name will go in the pile and sent to review by the committee if they want it to be, and being EA gives no advantage/disadvantage over being RD. Your midyear report goes in to the final package of your application regardless of whether you are EA or RD, I think, so they will also have your midyear grades.</li>
<li>That’s it for now.</li>
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