<p>How difficult is this?</p>
<p>excellent gpa and SAT scores are very helpful for this. i know a few banekker keys, and a lot of them had perfect gpa's and high SAT's, but almost not EC's, so i dont think that affects it as much. oh, and be a minority. if you're white, its a lot harder to get. black or hispanic is a plus, asian and white not so much.</p>
<p>Im interested in this as well. I have a 2310 SAT I, a 4.00 GPA and two 800 SAT II's (US History and Math II). I am white however. How realistic are my chances for the Banneker Key?</p>
<p>No shot. You need 2400. Sorry. Seriously, what do you think?</p>
<p>A couple people who got it posted their stats in this thread (including myself) <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=164975%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=164975</a></p>
<p>It really is a sweet deal if you get it.</p>
<p>Yeah, my math teacher told our class what a good deal it was, but she said it was really hard to get. If I got that, I would probably go to UMD. But it looks really competetive, so who knows. Thanks for the link btw.</p>
<p>I go to Maryland...</p>
<p>there are 200 B/K scholarships. 170 go to in-state kids.</p>
<p>If you're instate, you probably have to be >90th percentile...(if you're white). If you're outstate, you have to be really really good.</p>
<p>They ask about 350 people to come interview for the 200 spots in March. Everyone not awarded a B/K is offered the Presidential Scholarship.</p>
<p>Hmm...wow, I didn't know the in-state, OOS division was that harsh.</p>
<p>I know a bunch of kids with that scholarship...It's an amazing deal, some people have turned down schools like Columbia, Cornell, and UPenn for it.</p>
<p>^and Stanford. :)</p>