Are you an under-represented minority? Your racial/ethnicity are paired up with your GPA/SAT score for the award. So if you're white or asian, you would need much greater stats to receive the scholarship.
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<p>Comments like that **** me off.
Forget that s/he has completely great stats, has a high ACT and SAT, great ECs and a heavy class load. No, it only matters that s/he's a URM and completely discredits all their hardwork.
Maybe s/he got in because their actually hardworking and it shows, but no that couldn't be a possibility.</p>
<p>those are the only two scholarships listed to be university-wide. now, i could be wrong, ill admit, but i was told that the 25k was only available for the cas applicants. does that make sense? i dont think so, and i do hope that im wrong. but i also havent heard of any people outside of cas getting that scholarship, at least this year (im not very knowledgable about past years)</p>
<p>as for what the maximum for the other schools is, honestly i dont know. i would assume it depends on your financial situation, as many of the packages at nyu combine need and merit. the most ive heard of is around $20,000, which is still very good for nyu, but also incredibly unlikely. ive been told that the average, if you manage to get a scholarship at all, is around $5,000-$7,000 (which, again, doesnt make sense seeing as how nyu lists the average fa package as being a little upward of $19,000)</p>
<p>anyone who knows more about this please feel free to correct me.</p>
<p>back to the URM argument. i find it very hard to believe that they were in the top 90 stat/ec wise in the entire applicant pool. i know that my stat's are much higher than theirs and i have very strong ec's. i'm white. i didn't get the letter. it doesn't meant that we don't think they deserve the scholarship.</p>
<p>Maybe you need to ***** to the school about it. Not here, it's not as if complaining here is going to change anything. At the end of the day, you still won't have the scholarship, and it's nobody's here's fault.</p>
<p>Neither Ph0enix nor jellb9 is "*****ing" about anything. Someone with similar stats was indirectly inquiring about their chances for receiving the scholarship, and Ph0enix was simply informing him/her of the reality of the situation. He/she did not judge this process, and jellb9 even specifically said, "it doesn't mean that we don't think they deserve the scholarship." </p>
<p>Honestly, an absurd desire for PC in not even acknowledging the situation is just as bad as the extreme for the opposite (anti-AA/URM) perspective.</p>
<p>No one is discrediting the achievement of Armani or any other people receiving this scholarship. Congratulations to all of you.</p>
<p>"No, I'm not going to "chill out", if I have something to say, I'm going to say it."</p>
<p>dude, thats all jellb9 was doing too. dont be a hypocrite. no one was trying to start anything. get over it. using these forums for stupid arguments is really immature.</p>
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dude, thats all jellb9 was doing too. dont be a hypocrite. no one was trying to start anything. get over it. using these forums for stupid arguments is really immature
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<p>You're being a hypocrite too. You're dragging this out, when apparently this was over. Quit stirring crap, especially since you weren't involved. Nothing you've said is anymore mature.</p>
<p>just to stop any argument ill throw it out there that im an asian and got the scholarship so i dont think it goes to AA or URM if i had to guess it might be related directly to teacher recs or sumthing because no way my stats were one of the top 80 our of 20,000 applicants who applied</p>