<p>Here's the link with the information on how the Presidential Scholar nomination works:
<a href="http://www.ed.gov/programs/psp/select.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.ed.gov/programs/psp/select.html</a> This also lists students by state.</p>
<p>Hmmm ... for people that applied, were your essays very formal or college-essay-casualish?</p>
<p>hey, one of the essays is identical to a stanford essay, thats good</p>
<p>yeah...have you guys sent it in already? i'm scrambling, scrambling, scrambling :D</p>
<p>writing my last essay right now, mailing tomorrow or tuesday</p>
<p>Haha, I haven't started yet.</p>
<p>Done. In the mail tomorrow.</p>
<p>I'm sorry for being an ass about this (I've posted this in all forums) but this is urgent:
How long were your candidate essays? did they meet around 1000 words to fill both pages?</p>
<p>**college admissions<a href="%5Bi%5Doriginal%20prez%20scholar%20thread%5B/i%5D">/b</a>
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=26946%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=26946</a> </p>
<p>princeton
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=27289%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=27289</a></p>
<p>harvard
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=31960%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=31960</a></p>
<p>stanford
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=30605%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=30605</a></p>
<p>My candidate essay was ridiculously short (I used my Stanford essay). It fit on the first page with some room to spare.</p>
<p>hahaha :-)</p>
<p>oh my goodness, I've been <em>hysterical</em> the past few days over this stupid scholar app...</p>
<p>it's such a relief for it to be over!</p>
<p>Can you get nominated for ACT scores too? B/c my SAT score was definitely not good enough to merit the nomination I got; but my ACT might have been.</p>
<p>Yeah, that was one nasty application. I waited until the 12th to begin my essays :-).</p>
<p>yeah, you can. me too!</p>
<p>I totally lifted all of my college essays for that app. Probably wasn't the best idea to start it on Wednesday morning... Oh well, I live in an underachieving state, so we'll see what happens.</p>
<p>ugh i have no delusions of winning and all my essays make me wince just from thinking about them. definitely bad to wait until last minute...finished at 5:15 am and had to leave for my flight half an hour later, and i wasn't packed yet. ah me.</p>
<p>I got one for IL and applied. I hope it's a big deal, could be cool.</p>
<p>What if you scored within the zone that qualifies you for this presidential scholar award in past years like when you weren't a senior but a Junior or a sophmore, does that still count when you senior year comes around the corner?
Thanx</p>
<p>Yes.
My friend got a 1600 as a sophomore and got a nomination.</p>
<p>hi guys did anyone make semifinalist? results came out today...</p>
<p>I did... don't really understand the point of the semifinalist stage, since we don't really send them any more info to be evaluated.</p>