<p>All right. So, i have a question for you Stanford hopefuls or perhaps students. </p>
<p>I am applying for the "IHS Scholarship Program" and, in the application, I need to put down the "Name of college or university in which you are enrolled, accepted for enrollment or have a current application of enrollment:" and latter has a space for "If you are in the process of applying for more than one university, please list the names of the other institutions:"</p>
<p>How do you think I should handle this? First, what should I list as the "main" school and, second, should I list all schools that I have applied to or only ones that I am really interested in attending? Furthermore, the scholarship is full-tuition, so how do you think the cost of the school will affect the decision? </p>
<p>Any suggestions or questions are much appreciated; thanks!</p>
<p>Any input is appreciated; I thought I’d get a lot of help on here! Sorry if it’s just a bother.</p>
<p>Ah, could someone please help me with this?! My college counselor isn’t responding to her email either, so if anyone could at least give a little input, I would be very grateful…certainly mathboy you know something about this?!</p>
<p>hah, it’s really not that desperate…I guess I’m just used to almost immediate response here on CC. ;)</p>
<p>Hey dpatzz – I actually did have this exact question once, and my answer is that it probably doesn’t matter – take your best guess for the “main” one. If you can fit all the other schools for the list of the “other schools,” might as well, right – just to be safe. </p>
<p>The time I had a dilemma was really when they said “say where you’ll be attending,” and I had no clue where I would be, so I guessed – it so happens, I guessed correctly.</p>
<p>haha, I totally guessed that you would have run into this type of thing; thanks! </p>
<p>I think I am going to put Stanford first because it is where I really want to go and, hey, perhaps I’ll guess correctly like you did. And I think I’ll put down all of the schools that I am really interested in attending (including one that I have already been accepted to). </p>
<p>And, though I know this is hard to answer, but do you have any ideas about how they will think of the cost of your “main” school? For example, Stanford is around 50K whereas a school like St. Olaf would be about 20K for me (because I am going to get about 16K from them). This is a full tuition scholarship so I don’t want to be out of the question just because I put down a really expensive school. However, I think they will see potential in an applicant who has such high aspirations, I just don’t know. I’ll wait for my GC’s opinion, but it’s just helpful to get opinions from as many knowledgeable people as possible. Thanks!</p>
<p>Yeah, unfortunately I’d really have to “get inside” their heads to see if they’ll be, for instance, less likely to finance someone who’s going to a costlier program. I guess the only way I could suggest to figure this out is to see if you can find out who got the scholarships earlier – if it tends to be people from less costly schools, there’s a clear message being sent, given lots of costly programs also carry extraordinary prospective students worthy of the scholarships, right. </p>
<p>If I were you, I’d just put Stanford down if that’s your strong feeling – my instinct tells me that they probably get plenty of good applications from people wanting to attend top private schools, and unless they explicitly have a history of turning these people down, which would in the first place be shady, I’d just leave the best guess on there.</p>
<p>Okay, sounds good, thanks!</p>