Berry Scholars?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Dayton
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<p>Just wondering about the program. </p>

<p>I saw it was mentioned in the Fiske Guide, and I was wondering what the program was about/admission criteria/benefits to participating, etc. I know that the honors program has a cutoff at a 30 Act score and 3.6 (or 3.7?) GPA for anyone enrolled, and that meeting these standards is an automatic acceptance to the program, but does the Berry Scholars have such cut-and -dry standards or is it more holistically reviewed? </p>

<p>btw, I am a legacy (double if you count my aunt) with a 31 ACT/2100 SAT with roughly a 3.7 GPA (at least for now...) Would I make the cut for Berry Scholars?</p>

<p>Thanks for your imput in advance, CC world.</p>

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<p>Thought I would bump this since there has been more interest on the UD board recently with Jmeyer51 joining.</p>

<p>Any info would be useful :)</p>

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<p>This was the only info I could find - “Only incoming first-year students who are admitted to the University of Dayton and who meet the requirements of the University Honors Program are eligible to apply to the John W. Berry Sr. Scholars Program. Each year, the program selects no more than 30 entering students from all undergraduate divisions (humanities, arts, social and natural sciences, business administration, engineering, engineering technology, and education and allied professions).” It seems like it’s somewhat holistic. I’ll ask some people who work for me who went there.</p>

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<p>^Thanks so much!!!</p>

<p>Yeah, for many other competitive scholastic programs, there are a few students that drift onto CC and post stats. That does not seem to be the case for Berry Scholars @ UD.</p>

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<p>I think that the current UD freshman are the last class of Berry Scholars. We were given this info by the Honors program department and the website seems to concur.</p>

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<p>That’s correct. I was informed by Dayton that they will be discontinuing the Berry Scholars program. It was not effective for them to have two different Honors programs. They intend to strengthen the remaining Honors program. The large scholarship awards previously given to Berry Scholars will continue to be given to the top Honors program students.</p>

<p>Hope this helps.</p>

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<p>Ouch.</p>

<p>Kinda sad to hear this, actually. Oh well :(</p>

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<p>That backs up the info I just received. There will probably be a top level within the existing program that corresponds to the Berry Scholars, just not called Berry.</p>