Undergraduate Finalists Invited for University Scholars Program
The University Scholars Program has invited finalists to interview with us in early April for undergraduate University Scholars. Domestic students will visit campus April 8-12, 2014 and will enjoy a range of opportunities to experience life as a Duke student both inside and outside the classroom. These students will also participate in group interviews with Duke faculty and current undergraduate, graduate, and professional school University Scholars. Click here for the tentative schedule of events for University Scholars finalists. More details on the weekend for all merit scholarship finalists can be found here. International students will join faculty and current University Scholars for a remote video or telephone interview with extra time allotted to address any of their questions about Duke and the University Scholars Program.
Undergraduate University Scholars are exceptional, creative, academically accomplished students who can profit from an interdisciplinary program and who have demonstrated, through official financial-aid applications, that they need scholarship support to achieve their academic ambitions. They represent a range of personal and intellectual backgrounds and share an excitement for original research, collaborative thinking, and innovative scholarship. Our students come from all over the United States and the world, from as close as Chapel Hill, North Carolina to as far as Nepal. They are engineers and economists, computer scientists and political scientists, philosophers and physicists.
Undergraduate recipients will receive scholarship awards of over $200K over eight semesters that cover the costs of tuition, room and board and mandatory fees. They are also eligible to receive additional “educational enrichment” funding to pursue a unique academic or career-oriented experience, whether a research project, unpaid internship, volunteer service opportunity, or study abroad program.
The University Scholars Program is more than a mere financial award. It is the opportunity to participate in an innovative and dynamic intellectual community that cultivates and celebrates scholarly collaboration and exchange through regularly scheduled seminars, annual student-organized symposia, and informal mentoring between graduate, professional school, and undergraduate students.
Undergraduate University Scholars are also part of Duke’s larger merit scholarship community, housed in the Office of Undergraduate Scholars & Fellows. Click here to read more about OUSF and the vibrant community of scholars at Duke… and what makes being a merit scholar at Duke a unique experience unlike anything else anywhere.
