Leadership Award Questions

[Truust]

<p>Are there any other real benefits to this award other than the actual sum of $2,000?</p>

<p>Also, this sort of confuses me:
"Your application ranked within our top tier of scores, and as such, you have qualified to automatically receive this scholarship without going through the interview round."</p>

<p>But the email also says:
"The Leadership Award is the largest non-academic merit scholarship on the UC Berkeley campus and one of the most prestigious."</p>

<p>I'm grateful for receiving it and all, but if it's not an academic scholarship, why did I get it for just getting high scores? Seems pretty unfair.</p>

[totalcaprice]

<p>This is just speculation…I don’t know what it means by “non-academic”, since it says merit too, they probably just evaluated your application against others, and yours probably scored enough points (maybe a points system for leadership, extracurriculars?) to meet the threshold to receive the scholarship. </p>

[Truust]

<p>Oh okay.</p>

<p>Are there any actual benefits to having this though, other than the 2k? </p>

[totalcaprice]

<p>You could put it under awards in your resume section, not going to help much, but an award is still an award so it’ll still look good </p>