Provost Scholarship?

<p>I was wondering, how hard is it to get the Provost Scholarship for OOS students?</p>

<p>I really, really, really want to go to Georgia Tech, especially after visiting and I think I'll have no problem getting in, but scholarship money would make it alot easier to convince my parents to let me go. Financial aid is out of the question so I'd be paying full OOS tuition.</p>

<p>As far as achievement I don't feel like listing stats but basically I'm a better than average student with challenging classes and plenty of leadership experience and stuff like that. I don't think I'll have a problem being accepted, but with the news of GT receiving applications from these outstanding candidates (especially the ones mentioned on CC) I'm not sure if I'm really a competetive candidate for scholarships.</p>

<p>Soooooo, basically I'm looking for general information on the difficulty of getting the Provost Scholarship. Thank You!</p>

<p>Looking at the profiles of the people who have reported receiving the Provost Scholarship, I suspect that one of the goals of that scholarship is to attract URMs to Georgia Tech. In fact, the current Provost has been involved in increasing diversity at GA Tech, so that makes sense. It’s also interesting that the Provost Scholarship seems to be the only one that doesn’t require some sort of interview round to qualify for, which also seems to confirm that the URM criteria (which they would know from someone’s application) is one of the main factors they are looking for. I’d be interested to know if any non-URMs received one. Also, if the scholarship is geared toward attracting URMs, it would be helpful for GA Tech to make that transparent so that kids who are holding out hope for one can be more practical in their college planning.</p>

<p>…I’m so tired of this minority bs. By trying to level the playing field they’ve only made it harder for the average white male…maybe I could try and play the Jewish card.</p>

<p>A good post made bad by irrelevant minority rantings. Anyway, back on topic. I’d be interested to hear from anyone who has won a Provost and detailing what it took. Thanks.</p>

<p>My current freshman DD has one (non-minority). She was not offered it until the first week of May. She had already committed herself to the school a month earlier. Obviously, it was a leftover from someone that chose another school. The really odd thing is she already had a full need-based scholarship that covered practically everything for her. The Provost scholarship simply reduced the other scholarship dollar for dollar. It truly made no difference to her. Seems like they could have given it to someone else that could have really used it. And then they added yet another scholarship in that again reduced the need based one dollar for dollar. Again, it made no difference to DD’s bottom line. </p>

<p>DD had some serious stats going in with good ec’s/leadership. It’s worth noting that she was an afterthought for the Provost.</p>

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<p>Perhaps the first priority for the Provost Scholarship is to attract URMs, and, then, as in the case of your daughter, when there are unclaimed awards, they start to look at other students, particularly those with high stats. My son has very high stats and many other accomplishments and was tapped for the President’s Scholarship, so we thought he would be a candidate for the Provost’s as well (since they are apparently awarded independently), but no. Although I suppose, according to what you’re saying, that he could still be awarded one in the future.</p>

<p>Sorry about the rant but looking for scholarships being a white male has been kind of frustrating.</p>

<p>So back to the Provost, from what it sounds like it’s sort of a random picking.I would also love to hear from those who got it and why they think they did. </p>

<p>Also wondering if they offer other merit based scholarships because so far all I’ve heard about is the Presidents and Provost but from what land64shark said it sounds like her daughter got others as well. I’m really just looking to see if I went to GT if I’d be paying full OOS or not.</p>

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<p>I know there are local alumni scholarships and departmental scholarships, but those are in the couple of thousand dollars a year range–not nearly enough to offset the differential between instate and out of state.</p>

<p>Xettun… Don’t throw in the towel. What are your stats?</p>

<p>Yeah, I wasn’t planning on giving up. Still gonna apply and may even go even if I have to pay full OOS…still cheaper than schools like RPI,Carnegie-Mellon, and Cali schools.</p>

<p>My weighted GPA is 4.12, not sure unweighted but I get almost all straight A’s. Im an Eagle scout, NHS member, will probably be wrestling captain, have done plenty of service work, will be getting a job, will end with probably 8 AP’s, and got a 1940 on the SAT but am taking that again and will probably take the ACT.</p>

<p>I think that pretty much sums it up. I think I have strong stats compared to the average but weak compared to a lot of the kids on CC.</p>

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<p>xettundead - Your gpa looks good. I would take the ACT some kids do a lot better on it and remember that GT super super scores so it can be helpful to have taken both!</p>

<p>■SAT Critical Reading = ACT English
■SAT Math = ACT Math
■SAT Writing = ACT Combined English/Writing</p>

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