An Outside Scholarship Question

Colleges and Universities A-Z Washington University in St. Louis
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<p>All right. So, i have a question for you WashU hopefuls or perhaps undergrads.</p>

<p>I am applying for the "IHS Scholarship Program" and, in the application, I need to put down the "Name of college or university in which you are enrolled, accepted for enrollment or have a current application of enrollment:" and later it has a space for "If you are in the process of applying for more than one university, please list the names of the other institutions:"</p>

<p>How do you think I should handle this? First, what should I list as the "main" school and, second, should I list all schools that I have applied to or only ones that I am really interested in attending? Furthermore, the scholarship is full-tuition, so how do you think the cost of the school will affect the committee's decision?</p>

<p>Any suggestions or questions are much appreciated; thanks!</p>

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<p>I have two thoughts about this. The first one would be just to list them in your order of preference, and I would do that if you’re confident in your application.</p>

<p>The second would be to list one of your least expensive options as the “main” school and your more expensive options as the others, even if you don’t think you’ll decide to go to the “main” school. This makes you look like a “cheaper” scholarship whether or not this is actually the case. (I did the opposite of this when applying for a fixed-amount scholarship, it asked for 3 schools I was applying to so I put the most expensive three in order to make my financial need look greater.) I would probably do this, if just to err on the side of safety.</p>

<p>Disclaimer: I haven’t applied to a scholarship like this, so take this with a grain of salt.</p>

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<p>Okay, thanks so much for the input, lafayette! Lol, I guess most people don’t know what to do with this question, so I will for sure wait until I get word from my GC, but she hasn’t responded to the email yet! That’s why I posted this, to get some input. </p>

<p>Okay, so, let me be more specific just for the sake of it. My top 3 schools are Stanford, WashU, and Duke (from which I haven’t heard anything, although I did get a pretty nice note from the liaison to Native applicants at Stanford). I am thinking of putting Stanford as number one and then list WashU, Duke, Northwestern, and UW-Seattle for the others because those are the ones I am seriously interested in and I don’t need to put UW-Madison down because I just got a full tuition scholarship there (I’m not trying to brag, I’m just really excited! ;)). Does this sound like a reasonable plan? </p>

<p>On a side note, this is an Indian Health Service Scholarship Program (that’s what IHS stands for, if you were wondering). Stanford is highly regarded in the Native community (well, is it not highly regarded anywhere?) and it also has a wonderful engineering and just general science program, which is really what IHS is looking for. That’s why I’m thinking they might look at that as the “main” school positively. I’m just brainstorming now though…</p>

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<p>I think that sounds reasonable too, certainly showing ambition in your choices can’t be a bad thing. But I would wait until your guidance counselor tells you something since that is their job and not mine :)</p>

<p>Good luck, btw!</p>

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<p>Okay, I’m having a bit of a conversation with (3) WashU admissions people right now and their answers are driving me completely insane!! It’s nothing bad, but I’m just wondering if you guys can shed any light to their responses (it’s all via email, by the way). </p>

<p>All right, so I am applying to something called the Indian Health Service scholarship program and it says the following (and I quote) on the website,“A copy of a letter of acceptance from Washington University in St. Louis (MO) (note: it only says this because I put WUSTL as my #1 choice) - or - proof of application to a health professions program. If you are in the process of applying to more than one school, please include Proof of Application for all schools to which you are applying.
The letter of acceptance or proof of application you send must:</p>

<ul>
<li>Be on school letterhead.</li>
<li>Be current and dated.</li>
<li>State that you are currently enrolled for the semester in which you are applying for scholarship.</li>
<li>State the program in which you are enrolled.”
I never got anything on actual letterhead or anything from WashU, so I just emailed my admissions counselor (who I’ve been talking to quite a bit) to see if I could get something (I did the same thing for Duke and the admissions director just wrote something up saying I have applied to Pratt and plans to purse BME and med school, etc.) so I thought WashU could just do something similar. </li>
</ul>

<p>However, my counselor forwarded the email onto another counselor (I think just because they are so swamped right now?) and this lady said, "Dear blah, </p>

<p>Greetings from St. Louis! We appreciate your continued interest in Washington University. </p>

<p>We will be mailing out decision letters by April 1. The decision letter will be dated and on University letterhead. In the meanwhile, you can check your online application status for updated information. </p>

<p>Best,
blah."</p>

<p>I just responded saying I didn’t need an admissions decision but was just looking for something small (like the letter the man from Duke wrote up). </p>

<p>Then, I got an email from ANOTHER counselor (the director of admissions??) and this is what she said (I got this a few hours ago), "blahblah - </p>

<p>Greetings to you from Washington University in St. Louis. </p>

<p>You’ll have something from us by your deadline. </p>

<p>Thanks. </p>

<p>Nanette."</p>

<p>and the other counselor wrote another email saying something similar, and it came just a few minutes ago! </p>

<p>haha, I have no idea what this means!!!</p>

<p>Can anyone make sense of this?</p>

<p>Help! hah. It’s nothing bad I’m sure, I’m just curious how others take this.</p>

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<p>Maybe they knew decisions were about to be posted…</p>