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Eugene McDermott Scholars Program UT Dallas Due 12/12
The Eugene McDermott Scholars Program at The University of Texas at Dallas is one of the nation’s most generous and selective undergraduate merit awards.
Valued at more than $250,000 (out-of-state) or $150,000 (in-state), the scholarship includes tuition, stipend, study abroad and professional development funding.
McDermott Scholars have:
- Interned at Google, Amazon, JPMorgan, U.S. Supreme Court, NPR, NIH and CERN.
- Gone on to Harvard, Yale, MIT, Stanford, Johns Hopkins and Cambridge.
- Won Fulbrights, Goldwaters, NSF Fellowships, Udalls, a Schwarzman and a Gates Cambridge.
- Worked at Microsoft, McKinsey, Texas Instruments, the White House, United Nations, NASA, Cleveland Clinic and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
The scholarship includes:
- Tuition and fees.
- Book stipends.
- $1,400 stipends each month of the year.
- Up to $12,000 to study abroad.
- Up to $3,000 for career-oriented support.
- Cohort travel to Santa Fe, NM; Austin, TX; and Washington, D.C.
- Network of professional staff, faculty, alumni and cohorts.
The award provides an essentially debt-free college education with benefits valued at more than $250,000 (out-of-state) or $150,000 (in-state) over the four-year term.
Deadlines: December 12, 2019