@jpsulsuldagdag One thing I just thought of which can boost your Sims' chance of getting accepted for distinguished degrees, if you ever have it come up where you are concerned about it and really want the sim to get a distinguished degree, is if you have the parents in the played household, they can use their phone to give a boost to the chances.
Sims who are famous can use their fame to give a child a boosted chance and sims who are alumni can use their alumni status to boost a child's chance. There may be other parameters which also give the phone options but those are the two I can remember off the top of my head. You can find the options on the cell phone menu of the parent/gaurdian Sims under the 'career' section.
Also, not related at all to Distinguished degrees, but is something I didn't figure out until I'd played several Sims through University is that you can apply for scholarships again after a Sim has already been at Uni for a while. So if you re-apply each term for scholarships, as their skills increase while attending, you could get more scholarships than you originally started with.
