<p>suemag, </p>
<p>Yes it is a beautiful campus, I told my kids I was going back to school and I was going there. Idyllic environment. Too bad it didn't have the sciences my daughter wanted, or she would also have applied. She fell in love with it last year when we went to look. Im sure your daughter will get in, and best of luck to her.</p>
<p>Maybe the school had a number that matched her profile and they wanted more different types.</p>
<p>Thanks CBK!</p>
<p>I am familiar with Quinnipiac. Ds goes there and my other two were accepted. You must apply very early--all my kids applied in October. They routinely waitlist/deny stellar applicants because they fill the class so quickly. </p>
<p>A friend of mine just took her son there for an info session and tour (last week) and they were told to complete the online app in the summer and make sure to start the transcript request process from your gc as soon as school starts in Sept. Recs should be secured in junior year and essay should be done over the summer. You would not know any of this unless you visited early in the process. </p>
<p>This school is becoming very popular--makes one wonder why they continue to use rolling admissions.</p>
<p>I want to add that I don't think needing finaid is a problem in this case as my youngest will have 2 siblings in college and she was given a decent scholarship. I don't have the finaid package yet, though.</p>
<p>Well dd just got waitlisted! Letter said they had over 15,000 aplications by Nov1st!!!! yikes!</p>
<p>IT was a safety school for her but one she was very interested in especially after her interview. They called in additional adcom in to meet her so she was very excited. It is not the end of the world but she is a little disappointed.</p>
<p>OMG--I think we all knew it was going to get tougher, but safety schools becoming reach schools is harsh.</p>
<p>DD waitlisted. </p>
<p>She was deferred. </p>
<pre><code> The m/f ratio at Quinnipiac is 39/61. My not-too-wild guess is that this is the factor behind those decisions more than concern about yield. Unfortunately, it may be true that safeties are particularly hard to predict for female applicants.
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<p>Yup. That's why D decided to set her sights on five sister schools. She applied to three; admitted to all; chose her dream school.</p>
<p>She saw which way the horse was running and decided on this strategy herself. The education is stellar and the women brilliant (and the men she has classes with. -- All participate in partnerships/consortiums though perhaps Wellesley's is not the strongest.</p>
<p>My son is a frosh at QU (he loves it!). He applied early (Oct.) in his senior year, which one MUST do at this school. A couple of his friends with higher GPAs and SATs, who applied in December, were wait listed. It is a "situation of timing" at QU.</p>
<p>I'm planning on holding D2 under house arrest this summer until common app and essays are finished and ready to go in October!!;)</p>
<p>Silly me! I thought applying Dec3 WAS early !!!!! I had NO IDEA that early for rolling admissions was OCT. Live and learn. I willl be more prepared for dd2</p>
<p>My d applied to the PA program at Quinnipiac in Oct & did not get in with a 2000 SAT and excellent ECs, her grades in general were above their averages.. The Admissions Counselor said it was because of a C+ in Honors Chemistry in her sophomore year, which had been a B/B- average until her finals, for which she studied like crazy, overdid it I think, panicked and did terribly. She was pretty confident of getting in so we hadn't given too much thought to the other schools and now she is struggling with making a decision. Just a word of caution to future applicants, every grade counts!</p>
<p>I know a young woman with similar stats who was also deferred from Quin.
She had flirted with applying at the Ivy level, but actually sent applications to a bunch of less selective LACs in the Connecticut-New York area. Has in hand, two acceptances, an acceptance to the honors program at a popular state U, a January admission to a nice LAC in Massachusetts and a whole handful of waitlists to places like Connecticut College and Skidmore.</p>
<p>With QU having rolling admissions it seems most likely that this was the problem. Once a program is filled with admits, future applicants are deferred regardless of their qualifications. That's the way it typically goes.</p>
<p>So be warned. If applying to a college with rolling admissions, apply as early as possible and make sure all material needed for the complete application is also in as early as possible.</p>
<p>My son applied late Nov 07, his SAT's & GPA were lower than stats cited in original post, and he checked need FA. He was accepted and offered top $ dean's scholar award (as published on the school website). </p>
<p>Maybe it was gender, maybe it was geographical diversity (we're not from Boston or NYC metro areas), maybe it was his intended major (communications), maybe it was his EC's, maybe it was an unexpectedly larger pool of applicants, maybe the admissions counselor had a visceral, negative reaction to your friend's daughter's essay? Though originaloog's ideas seems quite likely.</p>
<p>Who knows? The whole process is puzzling to me. </p>
<p>It seems like she'll do well wherever she ends up in the fall.</p>