Do You Know Any Coca-Cola Scholarship Winners? The Winners were Announced this Week

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Anonymous wrote:Those are the top schools for winners? They must be top students, what does it take to win?

They basically pick 150 of the best all-around students in the country, similar to what USA Today used to do with All-Academic Teams in the country. This year there were 91,000+ applicants to get the final 150 winners - an acceptance rate of 0.15%.

The year my son competed they picked almost exclusively students of color.

Provide the year so I can verify.

+1 the girl I know who won and who’s going to Duke next year is white. The girl from DC is also white.

“The year my son competed” so not THIS year.

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Anonymous wrote:Those are the top schools for winners? They must be top students, what does it take to win?

They basically pick 150 of the best all-around students in the country, similar to what USA Today used to do with All-Academic Teams in the country. This year there were 91,000+ applicants to get the final 150 winners - an acceptance rate of 0.15%.

The year my son competed they picked almost exclusively students of color.

Yeah, that's believable.

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Anonymous wrote:You need a ton of volunteer hours for Coca Cola, Elks etc. it is a tremendous accomplishment

Out of curiosity, what is conserved a ton of service hours? How many hours?

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It's a big honor, and is also known to heavily weigh service hours as a primary component of qualification.

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Anonymous wrote:You need a ton of volunteer hours for Coca Cola, Elks etc. it is a tremendous accomplishment

Out of curiosity, what is conserved a ton of service hours? How many hours?

I believe most of the winners have 500+ hours by the time the apply

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Anonymous wrote:Those are the top schools for winners? They must be top students, what does it take to win?

They basically pick 150 of the best all-around students in the country, similar to what USA Today used to do with All-Academic Teams in the country. This year there were 91,000+ applicants to get the final 150 winners - an acceptance rate of 0.15%.

The year my son competed they picked almost exclusively students of color.

Provide the year so I can verify.

+1 the girl I know who won and who’s going to Duke next year is white. The girl from DC is also white.

“The year my son competed” so not THIS year.

Coca-Cola wouldn't have done that any year, doesn't matter. They just take the best applicants, they don't have any quotas

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I kinda hate it when rich private school kids get these big-name awards when they don’t need the money *sigh*
Winning is a function of their access, connections, and $$$

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Anonymous wrote:It's a big honor, and is also known to heavily weigh service hours as a primary component of qualification.

This seems right. On the Coca Cola site they list scholars with ACT scores of 23 and 24 but with 500 and 1000+ service hours.

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Anonymous wrote:I kinda hate it when rich private school kids get these big-name awards when they don’t need the money *sigh*
Winning is a function of their access, connections, and $$$

Yep. Poor kids aren’t *volunteering* 500 hours, they’re *working* 500 hours.

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Anonymous wrote:I kinda hate it when rich private school kids get these big-name awards when they don’t need the money *sigh*
Winning is a function of their access, connections, and $$$

Yep. Poor kids aren’t *volunteering* 500 hours, they’re *working* 500 hours.

100% Coca-Cola is targeting UMC kids who push themselves very hard. Still great candidates but not necessarily the ones that need scholarships the most.

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There is a kid from WJ!

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My dd went her year + went to Princeton. It was a wonderful opportunity. She has met people from all over the country from the program-- all types,- rich, MC and poor, urban, rural, black, white, hispanic, private school, public school, homeschool. The application had a lot of categories to check. We are very grateful!

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Anonymous wrote:Those are the top schools for winners? They must be top students, what does it take to win?

They basically pick 150 of the best all-around students in the country, similar to what USA Today used to do with All-Academic Teams in the country. This year there were 91,000+ applicants to get the final 150 winners - an acceptance rate of 0.15%.

The year my son competed they picked almost exclusively students of color.

Provide the year so I can verify.

+1 the girl I know who won and who’s going to Duke next year is white. The girl from DC is also white.

“The year my son competed” so not THIS year.

Coca-Cola wouldn't have done that any year, doesn't matter. They just take the best applicants, they don't have any quotas

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Yes, just a lie. Lots of impressive kids there.

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Anonymous wrote:My dd went her year + went to Princeton. It was a wonderful opportunity. She has met people from all over the country from the program-- all types,- rich, MC and poor, urban, rural, black, white, hispanic, private school, public school, homeschool. The application had a lot of categories to check. We are very grateful!

You’ve been posting this for 10 years.

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Anonymous wrote:Yawn, all kids from rich suburban high schools

Not really, most states are represented so there's a good chance the scholars from Kansas, Montana, etc. aren't rich

The high schools represented in those states are the richest ones in those states.

I saw a kid on the list who is in my nephew’s class at their public high school. The school, in a “flyover” state, is under 2% low-income students.

That’s fair, oftentimes having the time to actually do a lot of service is a product of wealth anyways. It’s weird the scholarship is rewarding those that help others instead of rewarding the people who are usually recipients of help and need the scholarship $$ more. It’s definitely a strategy for coca-cola to increase their PR and build connections with future top leaders and scholars who might view coca-cola favorably regardless of their actions in the future

Bingo.

Otherwise why all the focus on kids going to the top five schools—and no focus on kids who can’t afford to work for free. Elite award for the elite.