Presidential Scholars

Paying for College
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<p><a href="http://www.presidentialscholars.org/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.presidentialscholars.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>How do you know if you're eligible for this scholarship?
Or do you even apply for it?
Is it even a scholarship or just a prestigious award?</p>

<p>I tried finding information on this page, but I had to sift through a lot of reading, and even then I couldn't find specific answers to my questions. I've heard it's a prestigious award that is given to the top 2 students in each state with the highest SATs... but I read nothing about that on the website. Anybody know?</p>

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<p>At the awards ceremony at our high school students were award the Presidential Scholars Awards. They had to have completed 4 years each of English, Social Studies, Science, Math, and Foreign Language to achieve this status. Students received a certificate attesting to their achievement signed by the president (a copy). There is also a middle school presidential scholars award for completing English, Social Studies, Math, Science and Foreign Language all years of middle school. I believe there is a minimum GPA also. DD received this in middle school...we think that is how she got on all the college mailing lists!!</p>

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<p>Try these links instead:
<a href="http://www.ed.gov/programs/psp/select.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ed.gov/programs/psp/select.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://www.ed.gov/programs/psp/faq.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.ed.gov/programs/psp/faq.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Academic Presidential Scholar candidates are the top 20 males and top 20 females in each state with the highest SAT or ACT scores in a single sitting.
They have to write several essays and fill out lots of paperwork. Eventually there are 121 students selected. It isn't a scholarship but rather an honor -- winners are honored at a ceremony in Washington D.C. My son was a candidate last year based on his SAT score but he decided not to apply to be a semifinalist because of the numerous essays required.</p>

<p>There is also an Arts Presidential Scholar program - information is on the websites mentioned above.</p>

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<p>so in NY you would basically have to get a 1600 to have any chance?</p>

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<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"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=26946&lt;/a> </p>

<p>princeton
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=27289%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=27289&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>harvard
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=31960%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=31960&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>stanford
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=30605%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=30605&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>