<p>I've just been awarded the Braddock Scholarship from Eberly School of Science!!! It cover full room, board, and tuition for 4 years! Anybody else get this?
Here are my stats:
SAT: 2290
ACT: 34
GPA: 4.0, 1/400
Other: National Merit Finalist, AP National Scholar</p>
<p>Good luck to all others</p>
<p>Major congrats!</p>
<p>Lucky YOU,, I'll probably have to pay close to the Full Tuition,, depending on what I get from PSU. I don't think I'll recieve any scholarships.</p>
<p>Son got the Braddock rejection letter today. At least it was a very classy letter, which takes some of the sting out of it.</p>
<p>SAT: 2350
AP's: 13, with two more senior year.
GPA: 3.9uw, 4.6w
Undergraduate research at CMU in robotics, and a CS patent application in junior year.</p>
<p>Sorry, reasonabledad. Your son seems extremely qualified, with higher SATs and research. Just wondering why your son has only 2 APs his senior year after taking 13 the first three. That seems like a little dropoff to me.
I don't know about the letter being classy. My guy just signed it with a giant "N"; that was it.
Good luck to your son. He is certainly qualified and best of luck to all.</p>
<p>There were only two APs left that interested him...so he has been doing college classes online and at a local college instead of AP this year. He had the fun of being a National AP Scholar when he finished 10th grade (only five of those in the nation), so he has kind of gotten what he can get from the AP program.</p>
<p>But congrats to you Maguo1. Do you know yet for sure where you will attend?</p>
<p>And if you could explain your screen name, I'd be interested. I'm afraid I've been speculating on a link to the character from Last of the Mohicans, but that seems unlikely...</p>
<p>Reasonabledad-- where will you son go? Is Penn State now out? He seems EXTREMELY well qualified. Seems like he could go anywhere. My d got in but no word of money yet and we are OUS so we will see...................</p>
<p>He doesn't know yet. We're still waiting for some more acceptances and (hopefully) for some merit awards somewhere. A couple of weeks still to go...</p>
<p>Wow, that is amazing: AP National Scholar as a sophomore. At first I thought the "easy" courseload as a senior might have affected him getting the Braddock sship. But I guess not. He seems to be extremely dedicated to his studies. I'm sure he'll get many great offers. I thought I was really special getting AP National Scholar as a junior, but wow, as a sophomre? That is truly amazing.
As far as my screen name goes, my last name is Guo and my first name begins with a "M". After watching the movie Mr. Magoo, I decided to make my screenname maguo1. Mr. Magoo is also a comic strip character.
I've been accepted to Michigan, U. of Florida, and Wash U. (St. Louis). I recieved a 20k per year sship from UM. Wash U gave me nothing and coming from UF, it is free. I got deferred from Harvard early action. I also applied to MIT (will hear back in 2 hours), Duke, Cornell, Princeton, and Johns Hopkins.</p>
<p>Maguo1 ~ And here I was guessing that your screenname was a phonetic play on words from <em>Mohicans</em> in which you were subtley suggesting that the character Magwa was successful in the end even though he was killed, and that hence he was number one in your view. Too subtle by half, as I now see!</p>
<p>Good luck on your other applications.</p>
<p>Wow, that is a very interesting interpretation. But I'm not smart enough to come up with something as profound as that.</p>
<p>i just got a financial aid reward letter in the mail, and it listed the braddock scholarship, only for about 1,100 dollars though. :/</p>
<p>Eleven hundred dollars? I did not know the Braddock was variable down to that level...in your place I think I would call the financial aid office to inquire (politely) if this is the right number. I think I saw on another thread that you are really short of cash: it can't hurt to call and make sure, as long as you are cool and polite...</p>
<p>Yeah, I think somethings wrong, conjeniality.</p>