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Impact Statement
Impact statement for 2011-12 campus-wide Great People Scholarships
Profile
| First-generation students | 41.0% |
| Number of scholarships awarded | 518 * |
| Average award | $4,459.68 |
Residency
| Wisconsin | 68.0% |
| Non-Wisconsin Residents | 32.0% |
Academic Year
| Freshman | 29% |
| Sophomore | 30% |
| Junior | 21% |
| Senior | 20% |
Ethnicity
| African American | 13.1% |
| American Indian | 1.7% |
| Asian American | 6.4% |
| Combodian Laotian Vietnamese | 1.0% |
| Cuban | 0.2% |
| Hispanic | 6.0% |
| Hmong | 10.8% |
| Laotian | 0.6% |
| Mexican-American | 8.7% |
| Puerto Rican | 2.7% |
| Vietnamese | 1.0% |
| White | 46.3% |
| No Response/Not Specific/Other | 1.5% |
Areas of Study
Campus-wide Great People Scholarships reach every field of study at UW-Madison. 63 percent of Great People scholars are currently undeclared. The remaining scholars are spread over a diverse range of areas from art to social work.
| Agricultural and Life Sciences - all departments | 4.0% |
| Business - all departments | 2.5% |
| Education - all departments | 5.0% |
| Engineering - all departments | 11.0% |
| Natural Sciences | 2.5% |
| Nursing - all departments | 4.0% |
| Other | 8.0% |
| Undeclared | 63.0% |
* This profile is based on self-identifying information provided by the scholarship recipients and released by the Office of Student Financial Aid as of 10.31.11.