Presidential Scholars Award - You get to meet Obama?

[Gaddafi]

<p>I have been consistently hearing about this Presidential Scholars Award from intelligence; just how difficult is it exactly to win this award? What would be the requirement for someone living in suburban California to win? I am interested in this award because I hear you have the opportunity of meeting the supreme leader of the democratic state if you win, which has always been one of my greatest desires...</p>

[originalthought]

<p>For southern Cal, you need an 800M/800CR in one sitting to be considered (or be an artist at large). Then you essentially need enormous success in some other area besides academics or be an IMO-type. </p>

<p>So, essentially you need the ECs that would get you into HYPSM alongside 1600 on the old SAT (note: the cutoff is stringent for the SAT. In meager Ohio, I received a 1590/1600 one sitting and was not considered).</p>

[enfieldacademy]

<p>this is what the website says…</p>

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By age 17 these astonishing young people have mastered multiple languages, worked for NASA and the Air Force Research Lab, played with the New York Philharmonic, conducted cancer research, issued scholarly papers, placed in most major national and international competitions, and launched their own companies. They go on to attend the Nation’s top colleges and universities, and to exercise their gifts on behalf of our country and the world."

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[Twizzle]

<p>So basically you can’t be human.</p>

[littlemissmeera]

<p>I got 770/770 and don’t want to retake.
Sigh.</p>

[HarryJones]

<p>I think you guys are missing the point of this thread.</p>

[mrdude108]

<p>^ I think they are too.</p>

[Gaddafi]

<p>I have a few more questions. Will having took the SAT more than once for the 1600/1600 count against you? Are your grades/transcript factored in the decision? What’s the deadline for the 2011 program?</p>

[Twizzle]

<p>Gaddafi, you sly dog. Secret services have been notified.</p>

[SchieffenPlan]

<p>i lol’d in real life</p>

[Saugus]

<p>Which real liberal wants to meet Obama anyway? I’d much rather meet Howard Dean or Russ Feingold, not some corporate caver who squandered a large majority (and is a product of affirmative action.)</p>

[daretorun]

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Gaddafi, you sly dog. Secret services have been notified.

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<p>OMG just died laughing.</p>

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I’d much rather meet Howard Dean or Russ Feingold, not some corporate caver who squandered a large majority (and is a product of affirmative action.)

What’s wrong with being the product of affirmative action? You can not deny that Barack Obama is very intelligent and certainly deserving of his many successes. He worked hard, and if you consider him a product of affirmative action, if anything, I think he would be a success story.</p>

[karaokemachine]

<p>Sounds prestigious, but that description sounds slightly elitist to me…</p>