<p>I'm looking at applying for several scholarships (Danforth, Annika, and either Mylonas, Moog or Lien : I want to major in PNP)</p>
<p>My questions is, do they consider ethnicity as a factor for scholarships?
I'm latino, so I am a URM</p>
<p>If I'm not mistaken, being a URM will help with at least the Rodriguez scholarship. The essay is about diversity.</p>
<p>They do have slight consideration for it. If you are applying for the Rodrigez scholarship though, you may as well apply for the Ervin scholarship as well it is similarly based on leadership, academic and diversity. The two programs work together and sometimes people have gotten both scholarship. I got the Ervin scholarship, and one of my best friends here at WU got both Ervin and Rodrigez. Plus Ervin offers more scholarships than Rodrigez.</p>
<p>Are the amounts for the Rodriguez and Ervin scholorships pretty generous. The tuition and room/board is about $45,000</p>
<p>I like the Rodriguez better, even though they've been pushing me to apply for the Ervin since I'm black. I'd apply to both for the heck of it (it would be fun to get into both!), but I'm just too lazy to find that stupid extra rec for the Ervin one, and coupled with the fact that I like the Rodiguez program's motives and smallness a lot better, I may not apply. </p>
<p>Hope to see all of you at the scholarship weekend! Are you guys applying for the academic scholarships as well? I think I'm doing the Lien one...and the writing one too.</p>
<p>I hope to be there but WHAT and WHEN is scholarship weekend?</p>
<p>It is called Scholars interview weekend and usually takes place over two weekends at the end of March. Different merit scholarships have different weekends. Usually Danforth, Ervin & Rodriguez interviews take place on the same weekend. It is the weekend where finalists for a good portion of the merit scholarships are chosen. WashU invites semi finalists to campus at WashU's expense.</p>
<p>Does anyone know what kind of things former scholars have done in high school to be admitted? I have no idea what I'm getting into.</p>
<p>do you mean admitted or invited to scholars weekend? I know one finalist...state/regional honors...initiated a service project...great scores but not HYPS level...got lucky, hit the target on the essay.</p>
<p>The only way to attend Scholars Interview weekend, is to be invited by WashU. Also, the only way to be considered for the weekend is to apply for one of the merit scholarships, which require a separate application.</p>