Presidential Scholars

Applying to College
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<p><a href="http://www2.ed.gov/programs/psp/2011/candidates.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www2.ed.gov/programs/psp/2011/candidates.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>List is up!</p>

<p>I'm a bit curious why I'm not up there. There are two girls from my school who are, and I know my SAT is better than theirs. I know that since I'm a guy I'm in a different category, but I didn't think the difference would be that big between guys and girls. Even if I don't get it, i can claim guys are smarter than girls (at least in Louisiana).</p>

<p>I emailed the people about it, but seeing how its midnight I won't find out what they say until tomorrow, haha.</p>

<p>Congrats to everyone who got it though.</p>

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<p>Are the candidates based solely on scores or is the application part of it as well?</p>

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<p>Candidacy at this stage is solely based on SAT or ACT converted to some scale.</p>

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<p>Not really familiar with this program. With only 40 per state, it pretty much requires 2400/36, no?</p>

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<p>^^Yes, pretty much, but it’s 1600, they only count CR + M</p>

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<p>Apparently not, unless you’re from some huge or super-competitive state like California. My cousin got Prez scholars a few years back there though.</p>

<p><a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/sat-percentile-ranks-composite-cr-m-2010.pdf[/url]”>http://professionals.collegeboard.com/profdownload/sat-percentile-ranks-composite-cr-m-2010.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>^So looks like around 1570 for females and 1590 for males, depending on state of course. Interesting.</p>

<p>Really stupid way to identify the nation’s best students. Typical Department of Education.</p>

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<p>How else would you do it on a national scale? There are only 2 nationwide standardized tests for high schoolers…</p>