<p>I got a 2250 in one sitting, 2300 superscored-->> So I meet the minimum qualifications for the Presidential Scholarship. Does anyone know what I will need to boost my chances for the scholarship in SAS? If this helps in any way, I am an in-state student with an A- average with a courseload which is almost as rigorious as you can get in my high school. I can post other information (like ECs), but I do not know if they are taken into account. Thanks so much in advance!</p>
<p>High SAT/ACT, high GPA, high class rank, and complete the essay on the application. That’s really all they are going to look at, honestly. If possible, retake the SAT and try to get even higher. The competition for presidential scholarships has gotten much higher recently, to the point where just meeting the minimum requirements is not going to get you it. I have known people with even 2320 SAT that have not received it.</p>
<p>I had a 2290 one sitting, 2320 superscored, UW 3.98 GPA and did not get it. I was devastated. Turned out to be the best thing that could happen…I ended up in a higher-ranked university with a bigger scholarship than the $10,000 Rutgers NB gave me, and through that university I was able to transfer to an Ivy League and am set to graduate with an engineering degree. Thanks to Rutgers passing on me, I expect (hope?) that there will be many more doors open to me when I graduate than I would have had graduating from Rutgers. Moral of the story: one door closes, another opens.</p>
<p>What did that contribute to this post?</p>
<p>Nothing you found useful, apparently. But maybe others will. My point is, since someone was asking about the Presidential Scholarship, that you can have the qualifications and still not get it, in which case you shouldn’t be discouraged. </p>
<p>I think that ECs do play a part. My son did not meet the minimum suggested SAT (2 years ago) however, he had very high GPA and very good, long term ECs and was offered Presidential. The criteria may vary between schools as he got different offers from each school he applied to.</p>
<p>Scored 2270, ranked #1 in my class Of 378, Weighted GPA was 5.4 and had plenty of EC/Volunteering etc. I too was disappointed that I did not get Presidential, I did receive Scarlet. Kind of sad that the Scarlet is only 3500. </p>
<p>The SAT cutoff is probably dynamically raised as more and more higher-stats people emerge (limited # of scholarships)</p>
<p>although ^njparent you should have definitely appealed that, you should have at least gotten trustee or something 10k+</p>
<p>I did appeal, was told “it was extremely competitive” That was all they could do, to which I thought, Bull… I have seen soo many kids getting the trustee’s with a lot lower. Really has been a disheartening experience, seeing that merit generally takes a back seat to a lot of other “politically correct” thinking. TCNJ offered less, which was really eye opening… and then when they found out he was Valedictorian, they upped the offer 1K.</p>
<p>When did he have all of his materials submitted? Also, if you are implying that the merit scholarships take into account ethnicity, sex, or other factors, then you are deluding yourself. There’s simply way too many people that are qualified but not enough scholarships.</p>
<p>Received notification of scholarship in Jan, so paperwork was in back in Nov easily. I am not implying that merit scholarships take anything into account, I am simply stating the whole experience has really left us with a bad taste,. I concur, there simply are not enough scholarships for merit, and that is what we found at most of the private and non private schools. I do question why, when I read a number of other posts out here, students with significantly lower scores were offered a lot more money. But it’s behind us now, nothing I can change.</p>