NCAT Extraordinary Opportunities

NCAT Extraordinary Opportunities (NCAT EO) is a unit in the Honors College that helps 杏吧原创杏吧原创 State University's undergraduate students, graduate students, and alumni, regardless of Honors College membership or current merit scholarship status, learn of and apply for nationally competitive and prestigious scholarship and fellowship programs.

These programs, which are branded at 杏吧原创杏吧原创 as "extraordinary opportunities" or "EOs," are external to 杏吧原创 and they span a wide range of experiences and typically have in-depth applications. Incoming students who are looking for tuition-related funding internal to 杏吧原创 should first contact both the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships and their academic department and/or College.
- Scroll all the way down after reading to view a list of 70+ highlighted EOs below and click on the hyperlinked names to start learning more.
Most EOs are fully funded, and some also include stipends. The funding is typically connected to one or more of the following: undergraduate and postgraduate degree programs (sometimes at a specific institution), internships, international programs and activities, servant-leadership development, language programs, and independent projects and research.
The oldest and most well-known of these EOs is the Rhodes Scholarship, which was created in 1902 and allows for at least two years of postgraduate study at the University of Oxford for people who meet the . Many EOs, as well as some undergraduate four-year merit scholarships, are modeled closely on the Rhodes Scholarship and at least one of its criteria.
Only a few EOs, such as the Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships and the Fulbright US-UK Summer Institutes, have very high GPA minimums (3.700).
- A very high GPA will not compensate for a lack of engagement outside the classroom.
- Other EOs may request minimum GPAs of 3.000, and there are several that do not have a minimum GPA.

There are two categories of EOs: those that require endorsement (about 10-15) and those that do not require endorsement (55+).

Endorsed EOs require candidates to first apply in the campus competition to gain nomination, or endorsement before they can apply in the national competition. Applicants should therefore put their best foot forward for the campus competition. Campus application deadlines for this endorsement may be anywhere from four weeks to four or more months before the national deadline.
Non-endorsed EOs do not require this campus vetting process, and applicants should also allot at least four weeks before the national deadlines for non-endorsed EOs.

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