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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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%.

They pick for a variety of considerations. I think they prefer kids with lots of service credits.

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

+1 it’s very leadership/service oriented

There’s a winner from Maryland committed to Princeton

Anonymous wrote:Semi-finalist is amazing too. Congrats to your DD.

+1

Semi-finalist is amazing too. Congrats to your DD.

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

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Anonymous wrote:It's not that surprising that the top 5 schools for the winners are Harvard, Stanford, Duke, Yale, and Princeton. When you take the top 150 kids from 91,000 applicants they're bound to be pretty exceptional.

How do you know those are the top 5 schools for scholars? I wouldn’t be surprised but what’s your source?

It's on the coca-cola website. And a PP said someone on Reddit confirmed over 50% of the scholars went to Harvard, Stanford, Duke, or Yale.

Wow that's incredible. Not to mention the most of the remainder are probably going to the likes of MIT, Princeton, Columbia, Wharton, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:It's not that surprising that the top 5 schools for the winners are Harvard, Stanford, Duke, Yale, and Princeton. When you take the top 150 kids from 91,000 applicants they're bound to be pretty exceptional.

How do you know those are the top 5 schools for scholars? I wouldn’t be surprised but what’s your source?

It's on the coca-cola website. And a PP said someone on Reddit confirmed over 50% of the scholars went to Harvard, Stanford, Duke, or Yale.

Anonymous wrote:It's not that surprising that the top 5 schools for the winners are Harvard, Stanford, Duke, Yale, and Princeton. When you take the top 150 kids from 91,000 applicants they're bound to be pretty exceptional.

How do you know those are the top 5 schools for scholars? I wouldn’t be surprised but what’s your source?

It's not that surprising that the top 5 schools for the winners are Harvard, Stanford, Duke, Yale, and Princeton. When you take the top 150 kids from 91,000 applicants they're bound to be pretty exceptional.

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