1. Echols Scholars Program
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The Echols Scholars Program in the College of Arts & Sciences draws together a diverse community of students united by their potential for significant intellectual engagement at UVA and beyond. Because of their deep curiosity and intrinsic motivation, Echols Scholars enjoy flexibility in their academic requirements in order to pursue their individual scholarly interests. Echols Scholars participate in unique communal programming to cultivate academic, social, and cultural development. Participation in the Echols Scholars Program forms the cornerstone of a lifetime of learning, citizenship, leadership, and personal growth in a rapidly changing world.
2. Congratulations and welcome to the Echols Scholars Program!
The Echols Scholars Program is designed to cultivate learning, leadership, citizenship, and personal growth by allowing complete control of your academic ...
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3. History of the Echols Scholars Program - The University of Virginia
The Echols Scholars Program was created by the University of Virginia Faculty Senate in 1960. At the time, the University Faculty were eager to create an ...
The Echols Scholars Program was created by the University of Virginia Faculty Senate in 1960. At the time, the University Faculty were eager to create an Honors Program in the rapidly expanding College of Arts and Sciences. The University had grown rapidly in the 1950s, largely due to the influx of Second World War veterans enrolling under the G.I. Bill. Peer universities had reacted to a similar explosion in student numbers by creating innovative programs; the University of Virginia sought a similar goal by a unique solution. Rather than create a purely financial merit scholarship, or an entirely new honors college with its own faculty and courses, the Faculty Senate decided upon a model which would provide ambitious academic privileges to students while retaining them within the College of Arts & Sciences. Additionally, the faculty decided upon the common living environment in order to provide for community and regular interaction among the Scholars.
4. About the Echols Scholars Program | Undergraduate, U.Va.
May 28, 2024 · The Echols Scholars Program is predicated upon the Jeffersonian ideal of freedom of inquiry and the development of critical thought.
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6. Three R-MA Graduates Head to UVA as Echols Scholars
Three Randolph-Macon Academy seniors have earned spots in the coveted Echols Scholars Program at the University of Virginia: Eva Bogdewic, Johnny Wong, ...
RMA proudly announces three graduates becoming Echols Scholars at UVA, highlighting their academic achievements and future potential.
7. Welcome - Echols Scholar Alumni
“The Echols Scholars Program is predicated upon the Jeffersonian ideal of freedom of inquiry and the development of critical thought.
“The Echols Scholars Program is predicated upon the Jeffersonian ideal of freedom of inquiry and the development of critical thought. It offers special opportunities to undergraduates in the College of Arts & Sciences whom we believe are among the University’s most intellectually curious, broad thinking, and self-motivated students and its most avid learners. As a member of the Echols Scholars Program you will join a select group of students who are offered unusual academic freedom, creative opportunity, community, and attention that will assist in achieving your academic and career goals.”
8. Should Echols be a dealbreaker? - College Confidential Forums
Feb 14, 2018 · Echols isn"t as big a difference at UVa as full-fledged honors colleges are at the schools that have them. My spouse was an Echols Scholar (35 ...
I am rather disappointed I did not get Echols (as I felt my scores, GPA, and extracurriculars were up to scratch) and it has made me begin to reconsider if I am good enough. Wondering if it is still worth it without Echols and how impactful it is on normal student life.
9. Echols Scholar--Is It Worth It? - Hoo Stories: A UVa Student Blog
Feb 5, 2010 · The Echols Scholars program is just that--a scholars program not a scholarship program. There is no money or grant inherently tied to the title, ...
I have to admit that one of the biggest selling points for me in choosing UVa was that I was chosen as an Echols Scholar. For those unaware...
10. Echols scholars - University of Virginia - College Confidential Forums
Jan 22, 2014 · After researching Echols, I've read that it's generally the top 5-6% of applicants at UVA and these scholars receive 1st choice signing up for classes.
Hi,
I received an email today saying I was accepted to UVA as an Echols Scholars. After researching Echols, I’ve read that it’s generally the top 5-6% of applicants at UVA and these scholars receive 1st choice signing up for classes. Besides signing up for classes first, is there really any other advantage to Echols? How prestigious/competitive/good/hard to get into is Echols?
Thanks!
11. UVA Echols Scholar vs. Vanderbilt - Wall Street Oasis
Mar 26, 2020 · I have heard that UVA places better, but I am drawn to Vanderbilt's prestige and selectivity (and the fact that it is a private school).
I am a senior in college and have been accepted at Vanderbilt and at UVA as an Echols scholar (Echols scholars are about the top 5% of accepted UVA students, are exempt from the
