NYS Scholarship for Academic Excellence

The following criteria which will be used in selecting our nominees for the NYS Scholarship for Academic Excellence must be published by Law:

A high school shall use uniform criteria for the selection of scholarship nominees, applicable to all competing students, such criteria to be in accordance with the requirements of this section:

Method A: Regents test scores

A high school, which, prior to its students’ senior year, has offered to all such students seeking Regents credit at the school either a Regents examination or a single approved alternative assessment (see http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/sar), but not both, in each of the following subjects: comprehensive English, global studies, United States history/government, mathematics B, and in two or more of the following four sciences: earth science, living environment/biology, chemistry, and physics, shall select scholarship nominees on the basis of the following criteria:

The high school shall select their winner(s) by computing a weighted average of the scores on the Regents examinations and/or approved alternative assessments taken by its students prior to their senior year, in all of the following subjects:

The weighing of the scores shall be:

Comprehensive English - weight of three

Algebra 2 & Trigonometry - weight of three

Global studies - weight of one

U.S. history/government - weight of one

Science:

At least two, but up to four courses may be included - weight of one for each course

Individual schools must decide, in the science area, how many sciences to use in the calculation. They must use the same number of science coursesfor all students in the competition though they do not need to use the same courses. (In WP we use 3 sciences.)