<p>So, anyone heard anything about this scholarship yet? From past years, it seems to have been around this time that the letters were sent out. Also, is a 4.0 UW GPA definitely necessary to even be a semifinalist?</p>
<p>^D1 hasn’t heard anything yet. 3.99UW/4.15W, 36 ACT, 2400 SAT, decent EC’s but nothing spectacular, IS student. Curious to see if she hears anything.</p>
<p>Nothing is “definitely necessary” to be invited (I don’t believe there are any stated minimums) for this scholarship.</p>
<p>However, since only the top 50 admitted students are invited, it is most likely that they have tippy-top stats (perfect to almost-perfect GPAs, SAT/ACT scores, ECs etc.).</p>
<p>D is a 2010 recipient.</p>
<p>Congrats to your daughter karkri! She must be one extraordinary person!
And wolverine, I have very similar stats as your daughter (near perfect GPA :/), so I’m waiting anxiously for this too!</p>
<p>bump? 10 char</p>
<p>I think I saw someone get the invite in the scholarship forum so…anyone else heard back yet? :)</p>
<p>Anybody hear from Shipman yet? I doubt that I got it, but just want to know if it’s definitely not a possibility.</p>
<p>A couple posters reported in posts that they had received the invite…I have no knowledge what weekend the interviews will occur (or if they already occured, the weekend is generally in March.)</p>
<p>that person’s daughter got a 36 and a 2400…? really? because less than one tenth of one percent of students got a 36 on the act this year and 176 girls out of the 2 million students who took the test got a 2400 this year… and she did both? does anyone else realize the probability of this? why lie about this stuff on the internet</p>
<p>^If you’re referring to my daughter MrBlue…she did indeed get a 2400 on her SAT and a 36 on her ACT. In fact, she got a 36 on her ACT twice. She took it independently at the beginning of her junior year and then again in the spring of her junior year when her High School has all students take the test. I certainly hope you’re not questioning her or my integrity, or the effort she’s put into her school work for the last 4 years. And to answer the question posed in the thread…no, she has not heard anything as of yet regarding the Shipman scholarship.</p>
<p>They very strongly correlate. Skepticism is understandable when it comes to high testing scores without proof, but i’d be shocked if someone with a 2400 wasn’t capable of getting a 36 or someone with a 36 being nowhere near capable of getting a 2400 (albeit with some possible luck in the mix)</p>
<p>MrBlue, you are assuming that the scores are independent, which they of course are not. A person capable of getting a perfect score on one test is much more likely to get a perfect score on the other test.</p>
<p>I realize the scores are not independent. And I wasn’t questioning whether someone was capable of getting a perfect score on either, obviously people are capable. I was just saying it is incredibly difficult, does require luck whether you acknowledge it or not, and is something a lot of people (probably too many) say they have done on this site. Apparently I have been too skeptical though. Good for her, she must be brilliant.</p>
<p>Umm, just found out that whoever hasn’t gotten an invite isn’t going to get one. The deadline to RSVP for the weekend was the 11th. Congrats to whoever is attending!</p>
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