Dear Norlin Scholar Applicants:

Welcome to the Norlin Scholars web site! I hope the site answers all your questions and encourages you to apply to the program. As you can see, the Norlin Scholarship is directed toward a wide variety of students—students who think broadly and deeply about their education, with a love for all types of learning

Norlin Scholars can be from any major, but the commonality amongst the students is a love of learning exhibited by intellectual curiosity, a creative and open approach to discovery, and a commitment to intellectual, personal and professional growth.

Each class has been selected from more than 350 highly talented, high-achieving applicants from diverse backgrounds and with diverse disciplinary interests from Colorado and elsewhere. Because the Norlin community is an interdisciplinary academic neighborhood the program offers students a rare environment in which they can converse across the disciplines with like-minded individuals. In fact, student-to-student interaction is one of the most important enriching experiences available in the Norlin Scholar community.

You've established yourself as a student who's serious about your education based on your prior academic and creative efforts. We now invite you to apply for a Norlin Scholarship and to evolve as a scholar in a very different setting: that of a comprehensive research university. The expectation is that you'll engage your studies outside the classroom as much as within, that you'll explore your areas of interest from a number of different perspectives— possibly interdisciplinary ones—and that you'll collaborate with others in our scholarly community by applying your academic learning in practical ways. In other words, you'll become a scholar-citizen!

Norlin Scholars fall under the umbrella of Special Undergraduate Enrichment Programs (SUEP), a constellation of programs providing enrichment and other academic activities for motivated students. SUE Programs include Boettcher Scholars, Norlin Scholars, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) and Top Scholarships. Please do take a look at these other opportunities and see what CU-Boulder has to offer students like you. If, after perusing our site, you think you fit the Norlin Scholars profile and want to participate in a challenging adventure at CU-Boulder, I invite you to apply and wish you all the best in your academic career.

I look forward to meeting you!

Sincerely,
Joan Gabriele, Ph.D.
Director, Special Undergraduate Enrichment Programs