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2023 Application

  • Welcome to the Blount (pronounced blənt) Scholars Program Online Application. Although this will easily be the most fun you will have in connection with your college search, you may want to give the application the once over before starting. This will enable you to save your responses in advance in a word processing program, which is always a good idea with web submissions. Not trying to get all in your business, or anything. Just making an observation....

    Once you've entered your responses, replete with machine-tooled witticisms, in the form, you must remember to hit the "Submit My Completed Application" button at the end to finalize things. Partial applications will not be saved.

    Ok, so the application has three sections:

    • Section One - Pedestrian but nonetheless necessary biographical data--name, contact information, GPA & test scores, etc.
    • Section Two - In which we try to get to know the person behind the myth. This might include: querying you about your preferences, passions, prejudices, and peeves; asking you to inhabit hypothetical scenarios or imaginary worlds; having you write a little poem; requiring you to translate a prose passage from Susquehannock into Urdu.

      Ok, the thing about the translation was a gag. We do ask you to solve some differential equations, though.

      Ok, the differential equations bit was a gag too. Loosen up, will you?

    • Section Three - Wherein we wax curious about how Blount might fulfill your educational quest and how you see yourself fitting into the program.
    Now get busy. And remember: if you're not having fun doing this application, you're living wrong.
  • Section One

    Just the facts.
  • Section Two

    ♫ Getting to know you, getting to know all about you...♫
    Please run with the following prompts. How long should responses be? Totally up to you--there's no minimum or maximum length.
  • Accepted file types: jpg, jpeg, gif, png, pdf, doc, docx, txt, Max. file size: 5 MB.
  • Section Three

    The Fit
  • Drop files here or
    Accepted file types: jpg, gif, png, pdf, mov, doc, docx, txt, Max. file size: 5 MB, Max. files: 2.
    • Almost done! Simply check the reCAPTCHA box above and hit the submit button below to complete your application. Otherwise, you will have to fill out the entire thing again.

      “But how can a program committed to diversity and social justice discriminate against robots?”, you ask? Actually, we don't. The reCAPTCHA is just for the bad robots: corporate spyware, denial of service attacks by competitor universities, foreign governments trying to tamper with Blount's application process. But benign, curious robots that are clever enough to pass the Turing test are welcome in the program.

      How good would a bot have to be in order to fool us, i.e., to be as good as one of our applicants?

      Insanely good.

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