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By the Numbers
Summer scholars
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) rising high-school
sophomores in the University’s summer 2003 Collegiate Scholars
Program: 78
CPS students who applied: 920
Percentage of participants with GPAs of 4.0 or
higher: 85
Percentage in the top ten of their freshman class:
43
Courses offered, all taught by Chicago professors:
9
Number of students in the most popular course,
Filmmaking: 12
Length of the DVD, in minutes, containing all
the short films made by filmmaking students: 40
Full scholarships awarded to CPS seniors at summer’s
end: 5
Source: Kim Ransom, Director,
Collegiate Scholars Program
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