Has anyone heard back yet?
Not yet, but does anyone know when they will email?
Haven’t heard anything. I wonder why they added more dates and pushed back the deadline? I heard they had over 3,000 applicants (more than last year).
How many do they hand out in total?
I can’t even hypothesize as to why they pushed back the dates…but I’m kind of glad, because maybe this means a bigger chance of getting the scholarship?
Did anyone get an email?
No but when were you notified of any other scholarships? I was just notified that I received the Maximus yesterday so I’m thinking I may not be notified until February if I’m selected
Did anyone get an email?
Got an email at 3:40 received prominence although I applied after priority date around late November. thanksgiving weekend.
What were your GPA, act, etc. scores, so I can put my chances in perspective?
Congrats @fbi251
@PKR217 28 act 3.7 weighted gpa 3.35 unweighted. Uptrend from freshman year from c’s and d’s to straight a’s with 7 ap classes and the rest were honors. captain of the chess team and started investing club. Top 11% of class 53/412. First generation to go to college and Hispanic.
Great, so what did you write about for your essay?
@frank274323 thank you
@PKR217 about wanting to start a nonprofit to raise awareness of retirement accounts in minority groups and how that would close the wealth gap between minority and the rest of America.
Did anyone else get an email?
i called the office of diversity for some more info because i didn’t get an email! they said they received around 2000 applications and they are half way through reveiwing them. he said that even if you applied by the priority deadline, you could have to wait until march to hear back. he said that yesterdays email was supposed to be sent around 4 pm, maybe a little after, before the next decision date i’ll call again and ask what time they think theyre going to send the emails.
i haven’t heard back yet either even though i sent in my app before november 1st. i am nervous and very anxious, but it is a very big scholarship that they are giving out so it makes sense that they are taking this much time to review applicants, considering that they got so many!!
if anyone does hear back, PLEASE post in this forum because the rest of us are dying to hear back!!! goodluck to you all!
Woah, they haven’t even gone through all the apps? Crazy…
@longhorndreamer great info! Thanks for sharing. My daughter also applied before the November 1st and we still haven’t heard anything and are concerned. Now she did apply and was accepted to the the Scholars program and I’m wondering if it had to work it way through system before making it to the folks in ODI?
Hey everyone, so I got the instate excellence yesterday. Applied 10/30 and accepted sometime in mid December. Good luck to everyone!