Johnston Scholarship

Colleges and Universities A-Z Washington & Lee University
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<p>What is W&L looking for when they award this scholarship?</p>

<p>I assume that academics and test scores are important, but what else is essential to getting the award? Leadership? ECs?</p>

<p>Would I be competitive with these stats?</p>

<p>Junior this year at a Newsweek top 20 school, USNWR top 10 school.
GPA: 4.0 Unweighted (our school does not assign weight)
ACT: 33 (retaking with hopes of a 34)
SAT IIs: Taking them in Math II, Bio, and Literature
State of Residency (if it helps): Michigan
Class difficulty:
9th and 10th: All honors courses, all considered "pre-IB". I took AP Calc AB in 10th grade, received a 5.</p>

<p>11th: Full IB course load. 3 sciences: IB Bio, Chem and Physics. IB SL Math, IB Lit, IB History, IB Spanish, and TOK. Dual enrolled for a statistics class at a local university first semester.</p>

<p>12th: Courses will stay the same.</p>

<p>Academic Awards:
Top Science Award
Summa Cum Laude</p>

<p>ECs:</p>

<p>MUN club president, many awards in MUN</p>

<p>Spanish Honors Society (Officer)</p>

<p>NHS </p>

<p>Science Olympiad Officer (Experimental Design is so much fun!)</p>

<p>Youth Symphony (next year is my 5th year, I'm the principle horn player)</p>

<p>Volunteer Work</p>

<p>Student gov (secretary for three years)</p>

<p>100ish hours of volunteering at nursing home</p>

<p>Youth Leadership Project: Investigated problems related to poverty, hunger, and
homelessness on a local and international level for the course of the year. It was thought inspiring.</p>

<p>Will be attending TASP this summer (Telluride Association Summer Program for Juniors)</p>

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<p>Um, you should probably figure out the name of the scholarship before you apply for it</p>

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<p>Oops, no ‘t’ in “Johnson” lol</p>

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<p>Haha, that is exactly what I was about to say. Becoming a “JOHNSON” scholar involves much more than just great academics and extracurriculars. They have the interview process to find students who can be true leaders in the school and community.
Good luck!</p>

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<p>Also, just FYI, W&L doesn’t assign much credit for IB tests, so you might want to take the AP tests in all your subjects as well (this is actually true of several different schools).</p>

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<p>^ It looks like they assign about the same amount of credits for AP classes as they do for IB classes, which is rather ridiculous because IB courses are 2 year courses and AP courses are only one year courses.</p>

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<p>to answer your question, yes you have a shot, but write great essays. the most important thing i discussed in my interviews was my essay, and I ended up winning it</p>