My son has the Haslam Leadership Scholars, Chancellor’s Honors, & Cook Grand Challenge Honors(engineering) under his JUST FOR YOU tab in his applicant portal. Just did a Quick Look at all 3 and I’m not seeing letter of recommendation requests for any of them. My son included the letter of recommendation with his UTK application because it’s one more personal thing to set you apart as long as you’re fairly certain the letter is positive. I don’t know if that’s the right move or not but that is our assumption. Chancellors’s looks like it has 2 essays, Haslam has a video plus a resume upload and Cook Grand has an essay. I hope this info helps. I am not familiar with how detailed the process goes for each of these honors programs past the initial application stage so there could be further requirements down the line, not sure. Good luck to your student!
Mine has the Haslam Leadership and Chancellor’s Honors applications too. Do you know if these are the only means to a merit scholarship, or are there others awarded without requiring additional applications? Mine is applying for nursing and is not sure she wants to add honors requirements on top of an already rigorous major.
There is an auto scholarship, The Volunteer scholarship, with amounts depending upon state residency and test score, minimum UTK GPA 3.8, which appears in your portal after they get your STAR report. There are other scholarships as well but this is the most common auto one. These amounts say based on the 2024/2025 year so I guess we’ll have to wait and see if amounts remain the same for this year’s cohort.
Thanks for this!!
Thank you! My daughter did attend some kind of honors info session where they did say there would be another LOR for honors but who knows? Things at UTK are changing rapidly and there have been many changes in honors.
Yes! My daughter’s guidance counselors just brought this change in ACT policy to the attention of the kids this week so this is a change and it is pretty significant for those kids going for the next level scholarship who thought they had all year. But, as you say, it’s not an unreasonable position, just a change.
This is good to know, thank you!!