Stats for VP/Provost scholarship>

billikens
Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:04:02 +0000

Last year when I applied to SLU I got the VP scholarship as my initial scholarship before applying for and receiving the Presidential Scholarship. The VP Scholarship is initially 16,000 per year but they ended up increasing my scholarship and many others because they had extra money in the endowment last year (judging by the post that said they got 17,000, I’m assuming this is the case this year, as well.) So I ended up getting 17,000 per year. I had a 3.97 unweighted (my school never weighted GPAs) and a 32 on my ACT. With any score over a 30 on the ACT and I believe either a 3.85 or 3.9 unweighted GPA you can apply for the Presidential Scholarship. I highly recommend applying for the Pres. Scholarship even though it is competitive. There are 19 of us Pres. Scholars for the Class of '15 (they award a different number each year based on the applicant pool and the endowment, this year they awarded 19.) However, even if you don’t get the scholarship you can get the finalist award if you are a good candidate and had a good interview. And if someone declines to accept the Pres. Scholarship, they do award it to the next-best applicant, which has been the case for a couple of people I know. The Pres. Scholars interview weekends are in February (there are two weekends with about 275 interviewees each weekend) and they have a bunch of stuff that you do before you have your interviews on Saturday (you have two interviews).) You also get to stay with current Pres. Scholars in our dorms, so I hope to meet some of you soon! :)