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, Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) Program, 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