<p>Can anyone explain this program to me? Is it very selective, and are students chosen only from the engineering crowd?</p>
<p>The scholars program is 3 different programs (Kluge, John Jay, and whatever th engineering one is). It is selective.</p>
<p>About how many JJ Scholars are chosen each year?</p>
<p>there aren't many scholars selected each year so if you were selected, feel honored, candlefungus</p>
<p>I feel incredibly honored. Wow. </p>
<p>Wikipedia (untrustworthy, I know) says 1% of admitted are JJS. Is this about right?</p>
<p>Honestly...the scholars thing is a complete load of bs. I'm one...and it's nothing. It's basically one of Columbia's tricks into getting you to attend. And that 1% rate is a complete fabrication...I know dozens of them.</p>
<p>Oh, I see. Well, this is one of the key factors in determining whether I will attend Columbia or another Ivy, so that's why I ask.</p>
<p>it's not an engineering thing. CP Davis scholars are the engineering ones. CC kids can be John Jay scholars, Kluge scholars (URM), or Global scholars (international students). The benefits are somewhat vague, but include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Preferential treatment in financial aid, within the bounds of what they're legally allowed to do. I got a bunch of loans converted to grants.</li>
<li>Access to lots of cool events and speakers that come, some in very personal settings. You can even request a speaker and they'll see if they can get them.</li>
<li>Invitations and free tickets to shows, plays, and other performances</li>
<li>Enhanced assistance and sponsorship with fellowships (Rhodes, Fullbright, Truman, etc)</li>
</ul>
<p>so it's not like they shower you with money and give you kickass housing and a personal masseuse, but it's better than a hit in the head.</p>
<p>Was the Scholar program able to broaden your network and to get you some important contacts?</p>
<p>yay i got it too</p>
<p>I can help.. from group e-mails, I know that there were about 40 JJ scholars in my incoming class at Columbia. So 40/1000 = 4% of CC. As far as % of admits, hard to say because it's hard to guess how many JJ scholars enrolled at other schools.</p>
<p>I got an email which stated that there are about 100 scholars in each class.</p>
<p>maybe that's all types of scholars? or the number admitted? or did it say just john jay? if not, they've increased the number since my year</p>
<p>I don't know, but there seem to be a TON of them this year. This topic never used to come up, but now it seems everyone is a scholar.</p>
<p>It almost seems like it's just a ploy by Columbia to increase it's yield.</p>
<p>John Jay and Rabi are the only two very selective scholar programs. John Jay is especially prestigious; every John Jay scholar I know is amazingly bright, with many of them being high school valedictorians...etc.</p>
<p>Yeah, get advice from admitted or current students at Columbia, not bitter students who got rejected.</p>
<p>Rabi is in a completely different league than John Jay.</p>
<p>C08, yes it referred to ALL the scholars.</p>
<p>i think this particular website has a lot of selection bias in who posts here. most everyone who bothers to take their obsession about college admissions online and share it with the world, is probably more well-prepared and considered than the average applicant. not surprisingly, a much greater percentage get in to the most selective colleges (like, in this case, Columbia). And probably a higher percentage of those get special things to entice them to attend.</p>
<p>more importantly, if you get admitted and you're told you're a john jay scholar and you don't know what that means, where are you going to go for the inside scoop? The admissions office? No, you'll probably try to find something online. And we are that something, here. A bunch of the people asking about the scholars program are new users, who probably just showed up to ask that.</p>