<p>Hi,does anybody know what is the essay topic for last year?
Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>Wait, I looked one more time, and they are listed by city based on zip code. We do have one from our local public h.s. I oddly feel better.</p>
<p>Three kids from S's school are on the list. I'm not sure what their scores were but the state only has 750,000 people. The GC said a 35 (and possibly a 34) ACT would get you on the list.</p>
<p>My S had no interest in continuing with the application last year. Not a big fan of that particular shrub :) But meeting Obama??? I'm sure he would have done whatever possible to win the thing! </p>
<p>Since the test scores are essentially equal, the award seems to depend a lot on being a truly outstanding student academically, as well as distinguished by amazing activities or service, and recommended very highly. The school has to complete pretty extensive forms, so my S's school didn't especially encourage the 6 or 7 nominees to pursue the award. It was pretty obvious who would win, so most of the other kids bowed out rather than do all the work.</p>
<p>Send a letter noting that your son just received this prestigious award, attach a copy of the award letter and mark on the front of the letter: application addendum for (name of son) for class 0f 2013!!!! Spread the good news!</p>
<p>If a student is named a Presidential Scholar, does the trip to D.C. count as taxable income? I've looked and looked at the web site and cannot find anything about it. So many colleges have their own awards with the same name that a general web search was not too helpful.</p>
<p>I suppose an email to the Presidential Scholars program will be in order, if the answer does not appear here. Thanks in advance.</p>
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I suspect it would not be. Last year DS and I were flown to D.C. for the Prudential Spirit of Community Awards. That trip was not considered taxable income.</p>
<p>Hmmm...I'm on there with a 35 ACT and a 1530/2330 SAT. ??? Clearly I won't win...but I'll end up doing the application anyway - nothing like another few essays for a day of fun!</p>
<p>But I'm the only one from my city - I must have barely just made the cutoff; I know one of my friends got a 1520. :(</p>
<p>@ghotifish, they look separately at the top ACT scores and the top SAT scores. You probably qualified based on your ACT total. If you add up the sub-scores (excluding writing), you had either 141, 140, 139 or 138. The equating between ACT and SAT, for the purposes of the Presidential Scholar Awards, sets 1600 = 141, 1590 = 140. It might help Minnesotans in future years if they knew your ACT sum of scores.</p>
<p>Happy to see there's one from our HS.</p>
<p>yay my name is on a list!</p>
<p>do you think that the fact that my twin is also a candidate will hurt me? we have similar grades, activities, etc. we do have differences in our personalities and all, but i feel like they're going to think our applications are redundant =/</p>
<p>Sweeeeeeet.</p>
<p>If your name is on the list, everyone starts from scratch from here. Kind on like a track meet where you got into the final heat. From here on, it's what goes into your application. How much do you (and your school) care about trying to be the one of your gender who is the top person from your state? (fine arts students are different) If you only have great scores, don't bother. If you are also one of the top kids in your state in some catagory, fill out the whole 8 page thing and make sure your counselor will do her part.<br>
Only one boy and one girl from each state is a "scholar" ... plus some who are kind of "at large scholars" because of fine arts talents.<br>
Way cool for the kids who get to do it. Not anything colleges care about.</p>
<p>Adding - don't blow it off if some kid in your school (or your state) has higher stats.</p>
<p>From here on, stats don't matter. It's all the rest of what you have done.</p>
<p>OK so DD got the official mailing yesterday and I logged on and pulled down the application (all 14 pages of it). Huge number of essays which vary in length from 1/2 page to 2 full pages. Actually seems to be more work than any of her other applications. She's game, however, so I guess that's what is on the agenda for the next few weekends.</p>
<p>If a student is named a Presidential Scholar, does the trip to D.C. count as taxable income? I've looked and looked at the web site and cannot find anything about it.</p>
<p>That sounds like a question for a tax expert, not anyone who "feels" it should or shouldn't be taxable.</p>
<p>I got in, as did 4 or 5 other people from my school. I don't think I'll bother with the next step in the process though, as it seems like quite a bit of work (one of my friends told me the app is 12 pages long?!?!) and I probably wouldn't get it anyway, lol.</p>
<p>edit: I stand corrected by post 56. Even better...</p>
<p>Should I be worried that I haven't received anything yet?</p>
<p>...EIGHT from our school. And since it's Iowa, a lot of us (probably most of us) had the chance to meet Pres. Obama and stuff during the pre-caucus campaigning. It might still be worth it though ; )</p>