Just saying.
are there any colleges that accept people who do good in chess
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One does not play good, one plays well. And which is not spelled wich.
Just saying.
Just saying.
Do they accept NASCAR scholarships?
Apr 6, 2018
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#24
EndgameStudier wrote:
I think this whole game scholarship stuff is ridiculous. Someone gets a full scholarship just for being great at one game, where a student may work his ass off in high school getting good grades and he maybe gets a BS one-third scholarship? what a joke
Great schools will give scholarships to exceptional students, good schools will give scholarships to great students... In general the people who win non-academic scholarships are further above their peers in their area than those who win academic scholarships. That being said.... sports teams and fraternities create alumni loyalty that turns into donations.
jbolden1517 wrote:
EndgameStudier wrote:
I think this whole game scholarship stuff is ridiculous. Someone gets a full scholarship just for being great at one game, where a student may work his ass off in high school getting good grades and he maybe gets a BS one-third scholarship? what a joke
Great schools will give scholarships to exceptional students, good schools will give scholarships to great students... In general the people who win non-academic scholarships are further above their peers in their area than those who win academic scholarships. That being said.... sports teams and fraternities create alumni loyalty that turns into donations.
Wrong, its true sometimes, but people who study chess 24/7 and don't do much else won't be able to function as well in school. Why should someone who wants to be a biologist and studies hard be given a third scholarship, when a guy who just happens to be good at a board game gets a FULL scholarship?
Apr 9, 2018
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#26
EndgameStudier wrote:
jbolden1517 wrote:
EndgameStudier wrote:
I think this whole game scholarship stuff is ridiculous. Someone gets a full scholarship just for being great at one game, where a student may work his ass off in high school getting good grades and he maybe gets a BS one-third scholarship? what a joke
Great schools will give scholarships to exceptional students, good schools will give scholarships to great students... In general the people who win non-academic scholarships are further above their peers in their area than those who win academic scholarships. That being said.... sports teams and fraternities create alumni loyalty that turns into donations.
Wrong, its true sometimes, but people who study chess 24/7 and don't do much else won't be able to function as well in school. Why should someone who wants to be a biologist and studies hard be given a third scholarship, when a guy who just happens to be good at a board game gets a FULL scholarship?
There were a lot of statements I made I'm not sure which you felt was "wrong". Depending on how you count there is somewhere between 2.5-3m kids applying to higher education throughout the system. The kid who wants to be a biologist and studies hard is say the 100,000th best student. The kid who gets a chess scholarship is the 15th best player in chess among that group. Now obviously most kids don't study chess while almost all study biology... But those are the sorts of differences you are talking about.
People who study chess 24/7 and don't do much else have terrible grades (assuming they even graduated high school) and aren't the ones who get scholarships. The ones who do are saly the ones who spent 2-3 hrs day for 10 years studying chess and also have solid grades.
I was good at both school and chess, not "gifted" at either though. I got mainly mid to high 80 grades and my rating is in the mid 1500s. I used to play chess for several hours a day and I've been playing for 10 years now/ Luckily, due to the excelsior scholarship, all the city and state colleges where I live are FREE NOW anyway.
Chess and School I think are a bad mix. Chess teaches you to think completely logically. School teaches you to think very illogically.
A top-tier college would be selective about its applicants knowing the difference between "doing good" and doing well in chess, unless you propose to play for charity, and even if they don't offer a chess scholarship, you can still pick up some money on the side chess hustling in the student union.
Apr 10, 2018
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#30
godsofhell1235 wrote:
MintWarrior wrote:
how do you know i am young ( you were close i am actually 11)
Doing good means you're like a superhero. The opposite of evil. Good is an adjective or noun.
Doing well means you're satisfactory or accomplished. Well is an adverb.
Most people don't really care, they know what you mean, but @EndgameStudier was just pointing out your title has grammar issues, so if you're talking about going to college you'll need to improve your English. So I was saying maybe not, maybe he's a kid
Reminds me of "Zoolander":
I dont see how people have all this time for school and chesd when 10 hours of the day u sleep
Well talk to every gm
Everyone needs 8-10 hours sleep. I can see you are one of the hippie millenials who thinks sleep isn't important. Explain how people can easily fast for 3 days, but it is nearly impossible to stay awake for 3 days, if sleep is SOOO vestigal?
I was talking about the school part
Somebody already mentioned UMBC. Some of these colleges are indeed quite selective to whom they give chess scholarships. Some of these schools take their chess quite seriously. Here are the actual requirements for UMBC.
https://chess.umbc.edu/scholarships/
I was talking to endgame I get jokes man
You seem to be a well guy, but I'm afraid that is not enough
Look who’s the one talking
Sleep is more important than school also. Kids need 10- 11 hours of sleep minimum daily. Health is top priority in life. Not A, THE top priority in life
UMBC. They’re known for chess, and most recently, for being the first 16 seed to ever beat a 1 seed in college basketball.