<p>I never said the Alumni scholarship was on an invitation only basis, I said that was for the Regents scholarship. ANYONE could have applied for the alumni scholarships so that 2800 number is meaningless and only shows that you have 55,000-2800 lazy folks who either didn’t bother or didn’t know about the scholarship.</p>
<p>Just because you perceive that one must jump through more hoops to finally get an alumni scholarship doesn’t mean that it is on par or competitive than a regents scholarship- regents are prescreened from the very start in terms of who is allowed to be considered, and then their whole application are taken into account to make the final decision of who gets the scholarship, or else only the top of the top percentage of applicants would have just received the scholarship instead of asking for additional LORs/essay.</p>
<p>In the past 3 years, the only change in the perks of the Alumni scholarship has been the priority enrollment, which is the topic of this thread. First, Alumni scholars were never promised outright priority parking. It has always been with the stipulation that they had to be some faraway commuter student to get priority parking points. Regents scholars have always been promised parking. Nothing changed there, and there was no misrepresentation or change of terms of the alumni scholarship.</p>
<p>The renewal of funding for the alumni scholarship was always based on the stipulation that you fulfill a min amt of community service- you entered into that contract and that was the specific terms of this scholarship. You should already know that the money is not without strings attached because you willingly signed on to it.</p>
<p>Priority housing was something for athletes, disabled people, and people working in housing as an incentive. There’s nothing about priority housing on the terms of the Alumni scholarship online. The regents scholarship doesn’t even say they get priority registration, only that they are guaranteed 4 years of housing (although they have been getting a priority sign up slot, but this was not in the terms of the scholarship). There’s no breach of terms here either.</p>
<p>All the changes ocmom listed predates the 3 years that her daughter had the scholarship for. Had she read the terms of the scholarship, she would have realized the only difference was the priority enrollment, which again is the topic of this thread, and as the Daily Bruin article has already explained, the only groups left retaining priority enrollment status are the ONLY groups with legitimate reasons to do so.</p>