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Ryan Peters
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  • Class of 2016
  • Baldwinsville, NY

Ryan Peters Receives SUNY Oswego Scholarship

2012 Jul 19

SUNY Oswego has awarded merit scholarships to more than 600 incoming students, including Ryan Peters of Baldwinsville. He received a $2,000 Merit Award. The award recognizes past academic achievement and potential for success.

Peters, from Charles W. Baker High School, has reserved a place in the incoming freshman class for the fall semester. Classes will begin Aug. 27.

The awards recognize students' past academic achievements and potential for success. Outstanding first-year students entering Oswego are offered $17,600 Presidential Scholarships ($4,400 a year for up to four years), $5,000 Deans' Awards ($1,250 a year for up to four years) or $2,000 Merit Awards ($500 a year for up to four years).

The awards are part of more than $3 million in merit scholarship money offered at SUNY Oswego. These funds are in addition to the more than $75 million in need-based grants, loans and work-study awards that SUNY Oswego students receive annually.

Admission to SUNY Oswego is competitive. U.S. News named it among the "Top Public Regional Universities in the North" for 2012, the Princeton Review and USA Today named SUNY Oswego to their 2012 list of 150 "best value" colleges and universities in the nation, and the Princeton Review included Oswego in its 2012 college guidebook "The Best Northeastern Colleges."

A 151-year-old comprehensive college in the State University of New York system, Oswego enrolls more than 8,000 students in its College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; School of Business; School of Communication, Media and the Arts; and School of Education.