NHS Scholarship Winners 2009 College Choice Report

NHS Scholarship Winners 2009: College Choice Report

The NHS Scholarship Program presents awards annually to 150 outstanding seniors from chapters in all 50 states, D.C., and overseas. At least two winners are chosen from each state – more from states with the largest number of chapters. We present to you the following information regarding the 2009 winners.

In-state v. Out-of state.

• 51.3% of the students chose to attend a school out of state
• 47.3% chose an in-state institution
• 1.3% did not identify their choice.

Public v. Non-public Post-secondary Institution Choice
Based on a separate survey of scholarship winners for 2009 where 70% of the recipients responded, our scholarship winners looked to non-public 4-year schools with slightly greater frequency than our public institutions:

• Public, 4-year school: 44.2%
• Non-public, 4-year school: 54.8%

Top 13 Choices:
The following schools admitted multiple winners of the NHS scholarship for 2009:

Harvard: 6
University of Virginia: 5
Yale: 5
Brown: 4

The following schools admitted 3 of our 2009 winners (listed in alphabetical order):

Brigham Young
Columbia
Emory
Georgetown
Notre Dame
Princeton
Rice
University of Pennsylvania
University of Wisconsin-Madison

These 13 schools received a total of 29.3% of the 150 national winners for 2009.

Questions on the content of this brief report can be sent to nhs@nhs.us.