Does applying for the Danforth Scholarship increase my chances of admission?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Washington University in St. Louis
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I applied ED to Wash U as an international applicant. I also just recently applied for the Danforth Scholarship. Will this increase my chances of admission? I know that Wash U cares a lot about displayed interest, and I have visited twice and interviewed, so I’m hoping that this counts.

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Yeah I had a question on this - do the admission reps read your scholarship essays or is it another group of reps that read your scholarship essays separately.

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I don’t know how it works now, but Danforth finalists were nominated by school counselors and you don’t apply to it unless there was an actual nomination.

The Danforth Scholarship is reserved for students at the top of their high school class with the highest standardized test scores as well as outstanding achievement outside of school. So it’s goong to be extremely competitive.

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I seem to remember that Danforth nominees have been rejected outright so it doesn’t necessarily help in admissions.

OP, I would suggest that you apply to Ervin or Rodriguez as they seem to be more of a target given your ECs/current grades.

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@Hamurtle, the nomination process is gone for the danforth scholarship this year to make it more accessible

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@Hamurtle, the Danforth is also based on community service as well, and they had nothing mentioned about high standardized scores nor grades

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@D.Mat1234 I was also wondering the same thing, but i remember on the application that it said that they will refer to your application for admission, so I assume that they will look at it

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Does anyone know if the same people will read all of your essays if you apply to all 3 scholars programs? I justed wanted to know if I could write about the same topics in response to different scholars essay prompts.

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Wondering the exact same thing!

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^^ did anyone find an answer to this

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@junseo6 @PoeticApogee @aatd2 Though they may be the same committee looking at the scholarship applications, your application is only being compared with other applicants for that specific scholarship, so I don’t think having similar essays multiple times would affect your chances. If there is something you wrote in one essay for one scholarship that you didn’t mention in another scholarship essay, you may be worse off. So I think it’s better to just write similar essays as amazing as possible