Gates Millenium Scholarship 2011-2012

<p>Wabashbound:You can send me a private message also, but it will take me until Friday to annotate on your essay. I’d be able to give it back on Saturday at the earliest.</p>

<p>borkborkbork: You cand send me another if you want, it will take me until saturday though…</p>

<p>jla7903: The you are on a very good track!</p>

<p>Jsea11: You should write about your internship experience. Like NYSP2010 said, its very unique(which will give you points). Also, since it is something that requires maturity, it allows for you to expand on topics of how it has helped you mature, see the world in a different perspective or even given you insight into what you will be doing in the future. You can talk about how you are applying what you learn in the classroom outside of the classroom.</p>

<p>NYSP2010: I do have one question;</p>

<p>Every forum I have read stops after everyone (or mostly everyone) gets accepted into the second round. How competitive/hard/stressful is the second round?</p>

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<p>I’ve never thought of that before, D has never been asked for yearly documentation of any kind. I’m thinking that pell grant eligibility may be verified by your UG institution to GMS each year, but I can’t be sure of that. You should call Gates and ask, and could you please post the answer?</p>

<p>NYSP2010: </p>

<p>For this essay: “Other than through classes in school, in what areas (non-academic or academic) have you acquired knowledge or skills? How?” Would it be acceptable to talk about my job and the life skills I’ve learned? Also, I attended a seminar that discussed historical topics. Is that also acceptable to use? And what about museums? Could I talk about that?</p>

<p>Thank you so much!</p>

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<p>I think that is an excellent topic!</p>

<p>how will we find out if our nominator and recommender have submitted their stuff? will they notify us about it?</p>

<p>^aziangirl
on your application, there is a tab all the way at the end labeled “status.” You can check it from there.</p>

<p>Thank you GA2012MOM!</p>

<p>SORRY NYSP2010. I was typing fast. Thank you for all your responses :).</p>

<p>I live in California, and my parents have not received their IRS papers to do income taxes in the mail. Do you know when we’ll probably get the papers because I need to use my parents 2010 IRS because they were unemployed and if I use 2009 I wouldn’t qualify for the pell grant :(Will I make it in time perhaps?</p>

<p>Ok so Question</p>

<p>where it says “Enter High School”</p>

<p>I have two different High Schools</p>

<p>High school A I’ve attended from 2008-current
B I’ve attended from 2007-2008, but it still required a graduation date.</p>

<p>Should I just put the last day I attended there as my “graduation” date??</p>

<p>GAMOM, I will definitely ask/post answer :)</p>

<p>For Honors/Awards, do nominations for things like Questbridge and National Honor Society count? </p>

<p>Is it true that they never eventually ask to verify community service/leadership/awards once selected as a finalist?</p>

<p>Please forgive me if this post is long/in the wrong thread.</p>

<p>Should I bother applying with this scholarship? Stats are listed below:</p>

<p>Stats:
Race: Black
Ethnicity: American born, Haitian background.
Hopefully majoring in: Biology</p>

<p>SATs (highest scores): 630 CR, 470 M (I know, I know), 500 W. ACT: Scores not available yet.</p>

<p>Class Rank: 12/120 (from 06/2010, after the marking period ended in Nov., I think it’s higher… it better be… hopefully)</p>

<p>GPA: 91 unweighted. On a 4.0 scale: 3.7 (from 06/2010)</p>

<p>ECs: Chapter VP for Junior Statesmen of America (nationally student-run political organization);
Homeroom Rep. for Student Gov’t.;
Student at SUNY Downstate Medical Center taking college-level general anatomy and physiology classes;
Internship with the Geriatrics Psychology center at Downstate socializing with an Alzheimer’s patient;
National Honor Society.</p>

<p>APs: U.S. History, Literature (junior year), Language (senior year). APs have recently been offered in my school about 5-8 years ago, from my knowledge, and I’ve taken all that my school currently offers.</p>

<p>Other college-level classes: Pre-Calc (with credits received from school partnership with St. John’s University, along with AP Language); *Student at SUNY Downstate Medical Center taking college-level general anatomy and physiology classes.</p>

<p>*Note: I wrote about the SUNY class twice, because it’s an after school activity, but we do have tests and transcripts.</p>

<p>Please be honest. Brutually even, but with constructive criticism. Thank you.</p>

<p>^Yes, apply. You meet the requirements, so why not apply?</p>

<p>@LocoArts, hopefully I’ll finish some before then.</p>

<p>I too want to know how they choose their finalists (second-round). How many would you say get accepted, provided that they are Pell-eligible and their cumulative GPA remains above a 3.3?</p>

<p>thanx borkborkbork!!!</p>

<p>Rosary94: You make a really good competitor</p>

<p>Everyone: What schools are you guys applying for?
What are you planning to major?</p>

<p>borkborkbork: ok…cool. Good luck!!!</p>