Unversity Scholar Stats

MD_Mom_1
Mon, 11 Jul 2011 09:38:32 +0000

I was certain my daughter would get something from Chicago, but she did not. She looked great on paper and was and is a really fine young person. IF she had it to do over again, she would have submitted a portfolio of some kind with her application. Though she had listed that she had had a play she had written produced by her school, she had won her school’s award for the junior reseach paper, she had written the scripts for her teams’ Destination Imagination competitions, it was simply a list that wasn’t as telling as the writing might have been. She also had a perfect GPA and near-perfect SATs–and played the oboe. We did not realize the portfolio was an option.

So my advice–if you do something that sets you apart, submit it. Good luck.



the real percentage is meaningfully higher, since my impression is they don’t award them to students who would be getting significant need-based financial aid anyway. (Under the University’s rules, one scholarship would just substitute for the other.)



I actually called Chicago about this and was told that they do not look at need at all for the merit scholarships. I said that it would make sense to save the university’s money for kids who would not be getting other financial aid and the woman in admissions told me that was not a consideration at all. This was three years ago.