Scholarship Day Invitation?

<p>In the past, it has been posted that not many OS get scholarships or invited to scholarship day.</p>

<p>My OOS invitation came in today, so there may be still be hope for everyone. Now I feel like a jerk for applying to Bucknell…</p>

<p>OOS Student–Just got my email today. Any idea if we’re guaranteed scholarships? What happens if we can’t attend?</p>

<p>To the oos guys who got an invitation - do you mind posting your stats?</p>

<p>Have to fill this out eventually anyway</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): Never taken
[</em>] ACT: 36 superscore (35, 36, 35, 36, 9 W); 35 single-sitting (35, 36, 35, 32, 9)
[<em>] SAT II: 780 Math II, 730 Chemistry
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.94
[<em>] Weighted GPA: 4.45 (after midyear reports it’s 4.53)
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/~70
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 Chemistry, 5 English Lang, 5 APUSH, 4 Psychology, 3 European History
[</em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): 6 Chemistry SL
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: IB English HL (includes AP Lit.), IB History of the Americas HL, IB Biology HL (includes AP Bio), IB Spanish B SL, IB Math Methods SL, ToK, AP Calculus BC, AP Physics B
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): I have some obscure awards but they’re fairly solid (state science fair semifinalist, a few creative writing things, and a top-15 finish at a national math tournament in a science category)
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Mu Alpha Theta (Vice President), Chess Club (founder/vice president), Math Team (shared Captain), and Physics Team (Captain) for the school. I’ve done Karate in the past, but I quit after I got a black belt as a freshman.
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: I only have about 400 hours here; half are in tutoring programs for my school and the other are in forms of work-study required for CAS in IB (I’m doing a business-management thing currently and last year I did some supervised math teaching at a middle school)
[<em>] Summer Activities: Homework and being a lazy piece of garbage ಠ_ಠ We’ve done some summer math team competitions, but that’s about it.
[</em>] Essays: My essays were terrible. The writing style was decent, but the content was very counterproductive.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Teacher I’ve known for 3 years
[</em>] Counselor Rec: My counselor knows everyone at our school really well, so I’m assuming it was solid</p>

<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Alabama
[</em>] School Type: Public-- Magnet
[<em>] Ethnicity: Native American/American Indian/whatever
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: $50,000 - $60,000
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM
[/ul]
I applied for Applied Sciences, though I’m thinking of swapping to Chemistry. I don’t know if that plays into scholarships or not.</p>

<p>Well done, SkeezyJ! Good luck with the scholarship! I’m hoping D gets in OOS but not expecting any scholarship offers (but that will probably take UNC out of the running, too- we have several children behind her who need to go to college).</p>

<p>Sorry if I am regurgitating a topic already discussed but what is the % of OOS admitted students who are offered scholarships?</p>

<p>I read somewhere that only 15 invites go to OOS students (we’ll assume 15-50, which doesn’t include Pogue, Robertson, Morehead, or a few others according to the admissions blog). If around 1500-2000 OOS students get admitted each year (looking at the 18% rule and a 52.3% overall yield) you’re looking at roughly a minimum rate of 0.75% and a maximum of 3.3%.</p>

<p>Skeezey, thank you and a congratulations! A well deserved feat indeed!</p>

<p>Congratulations Skeezey and iambenk! S is in OOS as well.</p>

<p>Hope everyone gets their acceptances tomorrow (Friday)!</p>

<p>My ISS daughter received a merit scholarship ($2500 a year) without attending scholarship day, so no invitation does not mean no meirt. She was also invited to the Honors program and some other opportunities. I think the larger merit scholarships are given based on the scholarship day.</p>

<p>Just got notified today through mail. (Wonder why I didn’t get an email). Im an OOS, and I was wondering roughly how many people get a scholarship and wondering if it would be worth flying to UNC?</p>

<p>My son applied RD and we are OOS. Does anyone have a sense of when he might hear about scholarship day? He also applied for the Robertson. I see in threads from previous years that this specific interview notification has been around the 3rd week of February…</p>

<p>When I received my invite, I contacted the admissions dept. to learn more. Only 200 people invited for Feb. 1st and there will be a smaller RD date in March sometime</p>

<p>And gonyyong, the rep. told my counselor that nearly every attendee receives some money but he didnt say how much</p>

<p>Cool, thanks. I think I might as well go.</p>

<p>Got invited to scholarship day! and I’m OOS :)</p>

<p>fashionlover and others,
Yes, Congratulations you are accepted!! My sister went to Scholarship Day in 2006-07? I wrote you earlier, but deleted it because just too much detail. But the day was lovely and impressive on many levels. Everyone got very decent $ and everyone got into the Honors Program! You should celebrate!!</p>

<p>I got nominated for the Pogue scholarship. I was sent an email today. Does that mean I was accepted?</p>

<p><a href=“https://www.facebook.com/groups/4745...group_activity[/url]”>https://www.facebook.com/groups/4745...group_activity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>For anyone interested, this is a Facebook page for those who got accepted! Join so we can all get to know each other!</p>