<p>Congrats to all the recipients. Good job! You all deserve it. We didn’t get the mail so that means we are moving on.</p>
<p>So far I have not gotten anything in the mail about DHS. That would be my only way to go to Tulane. I am sad that that opportunity is gone for me now. However, I am using National Merit for a full-ride+ to the University of Alabama. Congrats to everyone who got the scholarship! At least I can still go down to the great city that is New Orleans! See you this coming weekend at Mardi Gras!</p>
<p>Just got my DHS letter! It’s so nice! And the letter was really personalized 
So happy, and by the way, this did not reflect on my Gibson account (still isn’t), so I really thought I wasn’t going to get it. </p>
<p>So for all you people who found nothing online, maybe letter’s going to come first :D</p>
<p>kaitlin, that’s great! Congratulations.</p>
<p>Just curious - are all DHS recipients thus far, also recipients of the Presidential Scholarship?</p>
<p>kaitlin01 You got your DHS letter on Sunday?</p>
<p>Nope, Monday. Yep, I got the Presidential first. </p>
<p>@FC - Thank you sooo much! I couldn’t have done it without you :D</p>
<p>Oh, sure you would have, but you are incredibly kind to say that.</p>
<p>arisamp - That is an excellent question. Or put another way, is anyone that has won the DHS not also a recipient of the Presidential merit award?</p>
<p>33dmjjm - kaitlin is international, that is why she did not receive it until Monday (and why her post says 5:07 AM on my screen, lol).</p>
<p>My S was a presidential scholar.</p>
<p>arisamp-
I think its a reasonable assumption that since the DHS is a scholarship for top students with top scores/GPAs etc, that they would have already been offered the top merit award prior to the DHS selection. It was true for my DS. The only possibility might be if an applicant got their college application in at the last minute and the acceptance hasn’t been offered yet. I have no clue if anyone has ever been offered the DHS before their Tulane application was processed completely. I doubt it, but, as they say, ya nevah know…</p>
<p>jym - I think the source of arisamp’s question is there has always been curiosity if a Distinguished Scholar recipient ($22,000 this year) “has a chance”. That has been asked a few times on here, and in PM’s. Probably you have gotten some of those too. I have always replied similarly to the way you did, that given the number of Presidential winners that apply for the DHS vs. the number awarded, it seems unlikely that a Distinguished Scholar would win, or at the very least the odds are long. But certainly it is hard to say for sure, and I hate to discourage anyone from trying when I don’t know for sure. Below Distinguished Scholar I feel pretty confident in saying they would be wasting their time.</p>
<p>Have you heard of a Distinguished scholar recipient winning a DHS, FC?</p>
<p>I have not yet, I don’t think. If someone told me they did last year or the year before, I have forgotten, but I don’t think anyone told me that. Of course, the absence of data doesn’t disprove the possibility! I agree, it is a long shot at best.</p>
<p>I know a girl who just got the DHS and was a Distinguished scholar</p>
<p>I have in my head the notion that in the past someone with the scholarship just below the Presidential won the DHS. I dont know if it was from old threads or some other source but its definitly something fixed in my head. It was one of the reasons we went ahead and applied for the DHS even though I thought my daughter was on the low end of the Presidential winners stats.(at least in terms of SAT scores.)</p>
<p>So there we have it. I might have had that in the back of my head too, malaml. That is why I was being cautious.</p>
<p>I think probably the important thing to know about this is (as FallenChemist and others have said) that its a merit based scholarship. I think they probably take say the top 100 or so applicants in terms of SAT and ACT, class rank and GPA. Some will be very close and thats prob where the project comes into play, as a way to distinguish between the “lower” candidates. Since no one knows what those “bottom” stats are going to be, there really is no choice but to give it a whirl. After the results came out, people started posting that they won(for the first time on this forum…I always wondered who those thousands of “views” were from) and with a little checking I could see the incredible stats. If there were 100 like that that applied, my feeling is that my daughter was never really in the running. This is not to sound like sour grapes. Just the way it probably played out.</p>
<p>Has everyone–winners and not–heard back from Tulane about the scholarship? I’m starting to worry that they never received my application because I recently realized that I never got a confirmation. Not noticing that until now may make me deserve to not get it, though…haha</p>
<p>They do not send a confirmation about receiving it I don’t think. I am sure they got it. You can call your admissions counselor if you want to be sure. The letters that notify the non-winners take longer than the overnight packages that are sent to the recipients.</p>
<p>my daughter has not received a ups package (darn!) but has also not received any information either via email or on her gibson account.</p>
<p>she had been thrilled to have been accepted and with a prez no less (yahoo!) but she did an enormous amount of work putting the dhs package together and i am just a wee bit surprised she had not had any “official” notification.</p>
<p>that said, still all good.</p>
<p>be well</p>
<p>dad of daughters</p>