<p>STRIDE is a really great program. My D has had a great experience with her STRIDE professor. But some profs treat their STRIDE's like slave labor. When you get the list of projects & profs, you might want to ask around for recs or references. The Smith dailyjolt is probably a good place to start.</p>
<p>Hmmmmm... At the risk of sounding stupid (which never stops me) - what is STRIDE?</p>
<p>Dailyjolt? Avoid that place around mid-terms and finals, and just shortly after spring break. Comments on there will turn any prospective away. That's when the real extra estrogen comes in.</p>
<p>LOL, TMP. I think you may be right, though I haven't looked at this site for a long time. D found it useful when checking out STRIDE profs.</p>
<p>TDM, the STRIDE program gets offered to about 35 girls per year. It includes a modest ($2,500) scholarship and a paid research assistant program for your first two years. While not nearly as much $$$ as a Zollman, which is half tuition, it's still a pretty nice honor and opportunity.</p>
<p>has anyone around here been notified if they've been awarded a Zollman?</p>
<p>Does anyone know when Ada Scholars will be notified?</p>
<p>I did STRIDE my first two years at Smith, and would be glad to answer questions about that and Zollman. Both have been really great.</p>
<p>My d. is a STRIDE/Zollman. Smith went full-tilt in making sure they would be able to meet her particular needs, both through the STRIDE (they created a new position, as Research Assistant to the Five-College Opera Consortium), and Zollman (she is taking a senior seminar this term, in her first year.) The STRIDE thing is a very big deal for her, giving her both research and organizational skills (she has to produce a production copy of the score of an opera that currently doesn't exist, and she will be acting as stage manager and liaison between the 5 Colleges), and give her a huge leg up in graduate school admissions should she decide to go that route. None of the other schools she considered (Ivy or LAC) came close to offering that level of opportunity in the first two years.</p>
<p>Intheory, I believe to a near moral certainty that Zollman notifications go out at the same time as the STRIDE's...in other words, they're already out.</p>
<p>Zollmans are highly targeted at students who not only almost walk on water but create the water first. From inside Smith, I've been told that Zollmans usually go to girls they think they might have to "steal" from Ivies and the like.</p>
<p>Zollmans are Ivy shoe-ins (including HYP, if one may be so bold).</p>
<p>Tdm: Ada letters are going to be mailed on Wednesday. I called the admissions office earlier this week and that's the date I was given.</p>
<p>It's nice to see another Ada hopeful around.</p>
<p>do students apply for the stride and zollman schlarships, or are they just awarded to applicants (who get accepted)?</p>
<p>They come as a very pleasant surprise.</p>
<p>i'm just wondering, do they still give merit aid to ppl who qualify for financial aid?</p>
<p>They most certainly do.</p>
<p>Btw, TMP, anent DailyJolt at certain times, I think that Smith should have a t-shirt that says, "All Estrogen, 24/7."</p>
<p>I wouldn't say that my D's STRIDE was a surprise, though one never counts on anything until one has it. We were aware of it and were pretty sure that she'd get it and were entertaining some hopes of a Zollman based on her stats & profile...the advance word was "maybe" and "maybe" it was. I don't know where the floor is but anyone with an SAT above 1550 and the rest of the profile to match should be thinking "STRIDE." </p>
<p>And, yes, thankfully the STRIDE money is deducted from your EFC so that students owe less than they otherwise would by about $4,250 ($2,500 scholarship plus $1750 research assistantship job). But I'd say that the doors opened by STRIDE are at least as important as the money.</p>
<p>I think STRIDE SATs are a bit lower than TheDad suggested...not to knock your knowledge but to give applicants and their parents more hope, I am an 06 Stride/Zollman and I had a 1470. I was in the top decile at my [competitive, public] high school, edited the school paper, volunteered, and had lived abroad as an exchange student. But when I was talking with an admissions counselor the following year, she said it was my essay that really helped (our topic was "if you could spend two weeks in any place--real or fictional; past, present, or future--where would you go and what would you do? I wrote about the town of Whistle Stop from the book/movie Fried Green Tomatoes). IMHO, what was more important was the fact that I'd also applied to Princeton, Stanford, and Oxford and they wanted to 'poach' me. As it turned out, those three schools rejected me, though I did get into Emory and the journalism school at Northwestern.</p>
<p>Stacy, thanks for the info...as I noted, I had no idea where the floor was, could only judge by my D's stats. My D applied to HYS, rejected by all three, but wasn't poached. Her EC & experience range was very narrow: ballet, ballet, and more ballet and her essays (on the Renaissance Faire and her sophomore hs English class) may have been more mundane.</p>
<p>TheDad- I love that slogan!</p>