Coca Cola Scholar
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Anonymous
| My DC got an email that she is a Coca Cola semifinalist. She is a senior with plenty of service hours. Her UW GPA is 4.0 and W GPA is 4.37, SAT 1500. Is this recognition something she should send as an update to her 'early' schools? |
Anonymous
| Never heard of it. |
Anonymous
| Why not? |
Anonymous
| It can be a great recognition depending the schools she's targeting. |
Anonymous
| Looks like $20k scholarship for 150 kids |
Anonymous
| Interesting. I've never heard of it. Pepsi had one that my DS applied to but the awards all went to URMS. |
Anonymous
| we are a Mountain Dew house. period. I would reject this garbage. |
Anonymous
LOL Well, the Pepsi application was a total waste of time. |
Anonymous
| Very high honor! Your daughter should be proud of herself. It's a great cohort of young leaders and academic rockstars. Recently elected mayor of Boston, Michelle Wu, was a Coca Cola Scholar back in the day. |
Anonymous
| Just read the bios of some of the CC scholars. Wow, some really impressive students! |
Anonymous
| Yes. It's a big thing. |
Anonymous
| My DD is a junior, how do you apply? Does the school nominate? |
Anonymous
| Is this a need based or merit scholarship? |
Anonymous
Merit and leadership/EC. I think leadership and EC probably weigh a lot. |
Anonymous
You apply yourself. I think the app will open next August for your DD, who will be a senior next year. |