Any make it to second round for University Scholars Program?

My son was invited to apply, but it doesn’t appear he made it to the second round. Its disappointing as he not only spent a lot of time working on the essays, but also has a 4.0, lots of extra curricular activities, participated in an engineering build weekend event, is part of the Honors Program and received a recommendation from one of the Physics senior professors. All that and no second round. I’m curious what it took to get to the second round…

@whciv Well my son also had a 4.0 for his first engineering semester, good extracurriculars, and thanks to all his AP classes is already a junior. He didn’t even get invited to apply, so your son should be proud that he was invited.