Reilly Prize Application

All students accepted into the Reilly Five-Year Engineering / Arts & Letters Dual-Degree Program are Reilly Scholars and, through the generosity of the Reilly Endowment, gain access to five years of full eligibility for financial aid. This is administered through the Notre Dame Office of Financial Aid and includes “preferential packaging” – a heightened effort to provide students with grant rather than loan assistance – during the final years.

This year, fifth year students are eligible to apply for the Reilly Prize, which recognizes and honors students’ personal excellence.

Prize Amount: $5000

Eligibility: All current fifth-year Reilly Scholars with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher who will graduate as Reilly Scholars this year.

Selection criteria:

Commitment to the Reilly Center mission of “science and technology in the service of human dignity and the common good”

Special embrace of the spirit toward conversation, integrity, and “constructive and critical engagement with the whole of culture” that define the Notre Dame mission

Academic achievement

Extracurricular achievement

Application process:

To apply for the Reilly Prize, applicants must submit all application materials to ageltzer@nd.edu by end of day on March 8 2024. Late applications are not accepted.

Application materials:

Completed application form (Required)

Resume or CV (Required)

Letter of recommendation from any person who can speak well to the qualities that make you a strong candidate for the Reilly Prize (Optional)

Reilly Prize Application

Name:

NDID:

Student number:

Email:

Major (A&L):

Major (Engineering):

Supplementary majors or qualifications earned or in progress:

GPA:

Most important extra-curricular involvements (list no more than five here; you may include others on your resume);

Short response 1:

Describe an important relationship you have formed, an important social experience you have entered, or an important encounter with other ways of seeing the world that you have pursued during the past four years. Choose one that illustrates “in some way” why and how you engage the Reilly Center mission. (500 words)

Short response 2:

Describe how you understand dignity and/or the common good, and describe one way that your work, inquiry, and/or experience has developed this understanding. (500 words)

Short response 3:

Describe how you understand your unique identity, and how your pursuit of two disciplines via the Reilly Program has helped you know and develop this identity; you might, but do not have to, include a reflection regarding who and what you aspire to “be” or “do” following graduation. (500 words)

Additional information:

If you have additional information, an extenuating circumstance, or a notable accomplishment that (1) justifies your selection as a Reilly Prize Winner and (2) you have not been able to include elsewhere in this application, please describe it here. If not, it will not be poorly received if you leave this section empty.