Does anyone know if the Ingram Scholarship Admissions committee has access to your regular Vanderbilt admission essay? The essay prompts both are about community service so I wanted to use some of the same parts.
thanks
Why not call and ask? My D went to Vandy, and their financial aid office is great.
Hi Kelsmom! (we were contemporaries as Vandy parents).
climb2thetop, in my opinion, your essays need to be totally distinct. The standards for being selected for a merit scholarship are very high. Your regional adcom may flag you for consideration --and your main applicant essays are part of that rationale. Your essay for the Ingram should be a distinct essay. You can certainly reflect on the same community service you wrote about before but go after a whole new angle.
Assume that your entire regular application is something that they can all read on their laptops while also looking at your Ingram essay. If you are RD you can switch things up and use a core essay other colleges are getting in a new edited version for the Ingram…and write a new subject core essay for your General App.
If you are going RD, you may need an extra essay in the mix to switch up and re-slant for various college apps and scholar apps.
I applied last year and they said all the merit scholarships had access to and looked at your regular app
Thank you!
stvea349 did you win?
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/ingram/apply/highschoolapplicants.php
“Be advised the Ingram Scholarship Program does not read applicants’ Common Apps or supplemental admissions materials as a part of the evaluation process.”
Nope but I did get the CV @climb2thetop
But if the website says that now I would definitely listen to that and not my info from the past
Just to clarify: For Cornelius Vanderbilt & Chancellor’s scholarships, the website says the whole application + scholarship essays (and letter of reference for Chancellor’s) are considered. For Ingram, just the scholarship essays + recommendations are considered (not your general Vandy application).