Unversity Scholar Stats

OxalisWombo
Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:51:06 +0000

5k scholarship winner. I’m probably about average (if not just a bit above average) by UChicago standards: 3.94 GPA, 34 ACT, a couple French awards + National Merit. The criteria for selection, as stated above, are not clearly defined, and the selection process itself is sort of arbitrary.

If my information is correct, scholarships come in 5k, 10k, and full-tuition sizes (15k too, maybe? Can’t remember). If I can get a 5k, you can too, but don’t be bummed if you don’t, because, once again, the awards are given rather arbitrarily. Remember that the nation’s top students are in the application pool; don’t expect a full-tuition scholarship, of which only a handful are given, if you don’t seriously match up to any one of the nation’s top scholars (or you aren’t LeBron James).

Be interesting and be a person the adcoms think would flourish in the academic environment here.