<p>Hello All,</p>
<p>I was wondering if Plan II gave out any scholarships ($3-5k similar to EHP) this year?</p>
<p>Thank you,
Psy</p>
<p>I received a $40,000 scholarship from Plan II based on merit and having satisfied specifications made by the donor on the type of person they wanted their money going to.</p>
<p>thanks for the prompt reply, those 40 Acres scholarships are fairly small in number (10-14?), right?</p>
<p>Are you aware of smaller (and perhaps more easily obtained) amounts? </p>
<p>Congrats again on P2 and your scholarship!</p>
<p>-psy</p>
<p>I have seen a parent mention in the past his kid got some amounts (5k per year?) as a plan II student just before or after starting the program.</p>
<p>I also received 10,000 per year (40k) total. I have not heard from other plan 2 students about smaller amounts but I have heard of 5k departmental scholarships and other 10,000 merit scholarships.</p>
<p>Thanks to all for your responses.</p>
<p>While I have you here, maybe you can help with one further question: does studying under Plan II help with class selection priority? </p>
<p>Our last name starts with an “S” so we’d be in the last group, and reading posts on chaos that is class registration, it seems like getting classes is a huge challenge.</p>
<p>Would being in EHP or BHP and PII mean the vast majority of your classes are easily registered for?</p>
<p>Thanks for any ideas on this,
Psy</p>
<p>Yes. Being an honors students means you get one of the awesome honors advisors. I met mine a month or so back and he told me that honors students will not have any issue getting into their classes. Plan 2 classes are reserved specifically for plan 2 students so those won’t be too difficult, but even normal classes have priority slots for honor students.</p>
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I’m not sure that last part where “normal classes have priority slots for honors students” is accurate. My daughter is in BHP and she has had to register for “normal” classes during her allotted registration time. If the course she wanted was full, she had to waitlist just like everyone else.</p>
<p>Did she give her honors advisor a call? My friend who is a year above me is a health science honors student. He had some family issues and couldn’t make it until the last orientation nd was wait listed for nearly all his courses. He called Mark, the health science advisor, and in 30 minutes he was in all of his first choice courses. That might have just been an anomaly then but that is my understanding of how one can expodite the wait list process.</p>
<p>Your friend had extenuating circumstances, it seems. On the whole, BHP advisors at least do not pull strings to get students into non-honors courses. Again, your anecdote seems like an anomaly.</p>
<p>Okay, thank you for clearing that up. I apologize if my original statement may have caused some confusion for the original poster.</p>
<p>It looks like try to luck out on orientation :)</p>
<p>No worries, in fact it is nice to know that in emergencies they can pull strings for a student in genuine need.</p>
<p>Cheers,
Psy</p>