<p>Denied Eminence Scholarship e-mail, ACT 35, gpa 4.4, national merit, take honors classes at OSU as post-secondary.
Looks like OSU loosing us, the best. See ya OSU</p>
<p>I didn’t get it either. I had decided on OSU before even hearing if I got an interview, so this sucks. I hate saying that too, but it does suck.</p>
<p>Yes, we live in Ohio.</p>
<p>Rejection is a bummer that I’ve had to deal with a lot lately. It does suck! From what I saw on Friday at the dinner and am reading here, the 75 competitors are all at the top of their class and deserved the fellowship. Everyone I met at the dinner was so cool and very smart. OSU’s pool of contestants is too big–there are too many people who lose out. I don’t know how they choose 25 out of the 75 candidates It must come down to the interview because everyone seems to be a 35-36 ACT and NM and 2300 SAT. </p>
<p>Everyone seemed super qualified, but they said they only have $ for 25 fellowships.
That’s where the bummer is. I wish money grew on trees. :-(</p>
<p>No eminence here either. I wish there was a “2nd prize” scholarship. Son offered $5000. It’s goodbye to OSU for him. But congratulations to the winners!</p>
<p>CollegeBoundCA, were you offered the scholarship?
Also, everyone else, if you were not accepted into the program, where are you going to school? Did you receive other scholarships elsewhere?</p>
<p>I received the scholarship with a 34 ACT and 4.13 GPA. I live only about ten minutes away, so I am not sure I will be attending. I am currently deciding between OSU, Michigan, and Virginia Tech.</p>
<p>Congrats GrayishWater! And good luck in making your decision - I’m sure you will choose the best school for you. </p>
<p>My son did not win the scholarship either. His qualifications were similar to the ones previously mentioned - I think that’s pretty typical for this outstanding group of students. Anyway, he is still considering his options; too bad there wasn’t some sort of intermediate scholarship for just being selected a finalist. Anything to step up from the Maximus level which doesn’t really reflect the accomplishments of this qualified group.</p>
<p>This wording on the Eminence Scholarship application gave my husband and I pause.
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<p>Emphasis mine.</p>
<p>We were confused about the implications of the words in bold. Do any of you have any insight into what OSU might mean by this?</p>
<p>Since our daughter wants to make good money, she thought this was not the right avenue for her.</p>
<p>Hmm… Aren’t they trying to appeal to students who are excited/curious about learning just for the love of it, and not only concerned about which program or major has the highest starting salary? Sounds more in line with the traditional lib-arts approach that smaller schools take. I would imagine also that a larger percentage of the fellows go on to grad school, and this is the same type of angle a lot of the grad programs take when recruiting students. Your take is as good as mine, but maybe you’re reading too much into it?</p>
<p>I have known several students who have received this scholarship–all with outstanding test scores and GPA’s. What they really seem to be looking for are those students who will go on to seek and receive highly respected post-grad opportunities–Fulbright, Rhodes, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall and Carnegie Scholarships–these students will receive extra mentoring and guidance in preparing for applying for these opportunities–besides being skilled leaders, they need to be comfortable speaking in front of groups–they need to be able to make a lasting impression on those around them. It is highly prestigious and desirable for a University to have their graduates earn these impressive honors, and Ohio State has made a very conscious effort to increase their visiblity in this area.</p>
<p>The committee’s selection criteria is a joke. I know my friend’s D was rejected though she was admitted to Harvard last year. My son got into Yale and is not even in the finalist for an interview this year. It is either a joke or all the candidates to OSU Eminence are so good that my son and my friend’s daughter are disqualified!</p>
<p>The kids that I know that received this scholarship also were accepted at various Ivy League schools, as well as Stanford and MIT–and I know many, many that were accepted by Ivy League schools that did not receive the Eminance Scholarship. It is much, much more difficult to receive this scholarship than to be accepted by an Ivy League–the one’s that I know have been very special people, not just good students. When you say that the committee’s selection criteria is a joke, what exact criteria are you referring to?</p>
<p>a friends kid was just awarded this scholarship and so i wanted to see what people were saying on the thread. Wow. What a lot of sore losers. i am sure you are sad that you or oyour kid did not get the award but that does not diminish the kids who won. just last month you were hoping your kid won. Do you see on the website that there are only 20 or 30 kids selected for this. so yes, that makes it harder by the numbers to get in to than harvard or yale or mit or wherever you are complaining about. since they accept thousands of kids into their freshman programs. but this is not just a seat at the school it is a special program with resources and stuff going on that makes it even more exciting than just the scholarsh college program.
i am sure that the kids who graduate with eminence listed on their resume will have bright futures, as will the kids who didn’t get the scholarship, but only if they apply themselves and learn and are NICE instead of chomping on sour grapes all day.
my kids are much younger but if my friends kid has a good experience with this program my kids will surely check it out when they are college age.</p>
<p>to grayish water: if you live so close and don’t want to attend because you live so close, why go to all the trouble to apply to the school, this scholarship, etc? </p>
<p>From a parent who has not gone through this process with my own children, that seems like a lot of work for nothing…can you enlighten me? I’m sure there is some big obvious truth that I am missing, due to my inexperience with the college application process “these days”. Please Help!</p>
<p>For me it was easy since it was a commonapp school, and honestly when I applied I had no idea that I would be accepted. I’m one of those people that when an opportunity like a scholarship is offered I will apply for it regardless of where it is for, which is why I ended up applying to twelve schools.</p>
<p>My aunt also works for Ohio State, and my mom went to graduate school there so they encouraged me to apply, I have also been an OSU fan all of my life, so that is why I applied.</p>
<p>To all those people who said that getting this scholarship is much harder than getting into an Ivy League, I think it is extremely different. While the applicants all have great grades, they alone will not get you in. I was denied from UVa and Washington St. Louis and didn’t even apply to any of the Ivies. I think the selection has much more to do with extracurriculars and the interview. I am just as surprised as all of you are.</p>
<p>Grayishwater, didn’t you submit an additional essay that addressed the Eminence prompt?</p>
<p>Yes I did.</p>
<p>so back to my question…why waste any time applying and writing extra essays if you truly didn’t want to attend? Even with full accepteance and a full ride scholarship if osu is not somewhere you wanted to go…why go through all that? I thought seniors had more important things to do-like party and sleep.
Was osu a backup or fall-back school in case you didn’t get in anywhere else? Did your parents “make you” apply? Are you accepted into some awesome school somewhere else with more $$? Again, maybe I’m just dense but I fail to see the reason to apply somewhere when you have no desire to attend…EVEN IF ITS FREE! 
I had to work for $ to attend college and was thankful that I was able to attend, even if I was working 30 hours/week and didn’t have enough time to study and get the grades I was capable of.
I wish I’d had your opportunities–free school and time to kill. Maybe it’s a generational thing that I just don’t get…someone please enlighten me.</p>
<p>My message is to vaulting
We are not sore looser, trust me me. The only reason we would consider to go to OSU is the scholarship, we are top .5% of of our class, all 75 finalists. We are all OUTSTANDING all 75. I am accepted to Harvard, MIT and Medical program in Northeast Ohio Medical University — NEOMED. Now, make an educated guess, I only have to pay $25,000 at Harvard and with pathetic $5000 Maximus scholarship at OSU, I have to pay $18,000, where do I think I would go?
We do not considers OSU for its value, only for the opportunities around the city - Medical Center, Cancer Research, Children’s Hospital research Institute. OSU does not provide good advising, you really have to jump out of your skin to be noticed here on this huge, moneymaking institution, famous for party and underage drinking - that’s what REALLY they said at the dinner of the finalist. I was laughing like crazy - they admitted themselves that OSU is only famous for the football team. Really, they had to come with some sort of extra scholarship for the rest of 50 who were not accepted. We are out of here, OSU does not deserve to have us.</p>