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USAToday
Thursday, February 17, 2005
COVER STORY
USA TODAY’s 2005
All-USA College Academic Team:
Compiled by Tracey Wong Briggs, USA TODAY
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USA TODAY Names 2005 ALL-USA College Academic
First Team
All-USA Team Soars
Scholars combine achievement and service 1, 6-8D
The team of 20 was selected by a panel of
judges from more than 600 students nominated by colleges and universities across the
United States. Judges considered grades, leadership, activities and, most importantly, how
students extend their intellectual talents beyond the classroom.
Scott MacIntyre – First Team
Arizona State University 
Home: Scottsdale, Ariz. Age: 19
Major: Piano Performance
GPA: 3.97 Graduating: May
Career goal: Recording artist, concert pianist, composer
Pictured: At the grand piano
Accomplishments: Legally Blind since birth, MacIntyre entered Arizona State’s
honors college at 14 and has soloed on the piano with the Phoenix Symphony six times;
performed hundreds of charity concerts as pianist, vocalist and songwriter; scholarship
piano study at Universitat Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, and Boston University
Tanglewood Institute. Butterfield Young Artists Competition winner; YMCA Youth in
Government program "Outstanding First Year Senator;" Marshall Scholar.
-Grade point averages are calculated on
scale in which a 4.0 means all A’s.
He is one of 20 students named today to the
All-USA College Academic Team, USA TODAY’s student recognition program. The 20
members of the First Team receive trophies and $2,500 cash awards as representatives of
all outstanding undergraduates. Forty students are named to the Second Team and Third
Team.
"It’s gratifying to be able to recognize the promise and passion of a new
generation of students who are determined to make a difference," USA TODAY editor Ken
Paulson says. "We salute their hard work and envy their future."
The winners represent excellence in a variety of disciplines, from psychobiology and
engineering to political science and the humanities. But as varied as their talents are,
they share the ability to extend their scholarship beyond the classroom to make all kinds
of connections in the world at large.
"We look first for the very best scholars, and then we look for individuals who
really extend themselves beyond the classroom," says judge Tim McDonough, director of
public affairs at the American Council on Education. "Each of these individuals
applied their academic talents to benefit others in a unique and impressive way."
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