[This thread is mostly about subjective outside scholarships -- not automatic merit awards, etc]
Seriously! It's not relevant.
I get a bunch of messages asking for my high school stats, because I won so many scholarships. But the reality is, no one applicant is the same. Yes, some aspects of scholarship awarding is boiling people down to numbers, but not all. Applicants with the same stats are not equal, because they will not have the same stories. There were plenty of kids with much higher stats than me, who lost to me in competition (and vice versa with kids who had lower stats than me, etc).
I tell you not to focus on other people's stats because those only give you a good representation of like, middle 50 ranges of appropriate scores for a given scholarship. You can find this on most scholarships' sites. It is no secret that most Coke Scholars end up at Harvard, for instance. You don't need to ask for previous awardees' scores to know it's competitive. And more, you're wasting your time, because nothing about matching or exceeding someone else's scores will guarantee (or necessarily even help you) win a scholarship. You will never be the same person as anyone else, even if you match up or exceed them on paper.
There are lots of factors that go into scholarship awarding, and comparing people is not an apples-to-apples game
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