<p>Can anybody tell me approximately when UA will begin accepting online applications for Fall 2011 enrollment?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>pretty sure you can get this one taken care of over the summer!</p>
<p>Around August 1, the application should be online. Once you file it, contact your student’s guidance counselor so that a transcript can be sent.</p>
<p>Actually, if things stay true to last year’s timeline, it would be closer to July 1st. D applied on July 3rd but then didn’t send her transcripts till July 25th or so because she was away for 3 weeks. She got her acceptance letter on August 5th. I suspect that if she’d had her transcripts sent earlier then she would have gotten her acceptance letter earlier too.</p>
<p>Thanks, everyone! Just a few more months of patience required!</p>
<p>Bamamom2be - we are in the same boat. My d is going to apply as soon as the application is available this summer. Have you visited yet?
We have not, but will be going on a little tour this summer. We are going to do Auburn, Vanderbilt, & Alabama in a 5 day window. Should be fun.</p>
<p>Yes, we took part in a campus visit organized through the National Alumni Association on April 30. It was wonderful! Before the day was half over, dd had decided she was ready to move on campus the next day.</p>
<p>I would also like her to do campus visits to UAB, Birmingham Southern, and Vanderbilt. (I went to Vandy for 2 years until scholarship money didn’t keep up with tuition costs.) Her schedule during the school year (academics, band, youth orchestra, church) makes it very difficult to schedule those visits. I’m hoping we may be able to get some done this summer.</p>
<p>uab is going to be the oddball in that group, but is a very good school. Depends on what she wants of major in and what types of programs she wants ie sci/tech honors, chem scholars etc. My son will be going to uab so if any questions feel free to pm me</p>
<p>oh btw, uab has instant admission decisions…take a transcript with you, fill out app and by the end of that day (tour) you can have a decision</p>
<p>UAB isn’t under very serious consideration for undergrad, but that’s her top choice for grad school. (She wants better music options at her undergrad school.) She wants to get a Ph.D. in genetics, and UAB has a wonderful biological sciences department tied very closely to their medical school and cancer center.</p>
<p>if she wants grad school, there are great programs that offer undergrad research starting freshman year at uab.</p>
<p>That’s one of the reasons I want her to go down and talk to the UAB biological sciences professors. The only campus she’s seen so far is Tuscaloosa. She may be so thrilled with it only because of the novelty of it being her one and only campus visit so far. I want her to be able to make some comparisons to other campuses. Then she can make an informed decision about which school will be the best fit for her.</p>
<p>make sure you arrange a visit with Dr Tucker of the sci/tech honors program. wonderful person and she can tell you about the different programs and research opportunities, if you arrange it ahead, also call Andrea Johnson who could help set up meetings with bio profs. Another person to maybe meet with is Michelle Gould who runs the honors programs. If she is interested in med school it has an early acceptance program but that is very selective (about 10 people selected). It also has an NIH MD/PHD program… phd and med school paid for while receiving a stipend of about 30K per year as well. UAB also now has a stem cell institute, I think it is Dr Townes that runs that.
UAB is not your typical campus, but does have an incredible, new student center, (rock walls, pools, fabulous equipment), brand new dorms but not your idyllic campus. its urban in the middle of b’ham.</p>
<p>Birmingham Southern had our favorite adcom after Jami Gates. It ended up being #2 on the list, but D2 really liked it (it was one of the few schools that we took her with us to see.) Very friendly staff & professors.</p>
<p>Suggested to S that he apply over the summer, but he said his essay will never be ready. Does UA use the common AP? I was trying to find it, but it wanted me to log in. If he has stats good enough for Honors does he really have to write the essay of all essays? It would be less stressful for Sr year if he had an acceptance in hand to start the year I think. I don’t think anyone he knows is applying to a rolling admission college, so he was thinking December to finish his essay.</p>
<p>The Alabama application is not Common Application. There is no essay.</p>
<p>The essays came with applying to the Honors College for University, International or Computer-Based Honors, and even so, those essays are short.</p>
<p>If he wants a scholarship, then he needs to apply before Dec 1st. That’s the scholarship deadline.</p>
<p>No essays for the school application. The app is so easy, takes like 3 minutes. A parent could easily do it. </p>
<p>For the University Honors Program, the essay is NOTHING…just a simple paragraph introducing himself. It has no bearing on acceptance. Acceptance is by stats.</p>
<p>The only time essays really matter is if you’re applying for CBH or UFE.</p>
<p>Good to know, that will help a lot. I think he should apply to CBH, but I understand that’s very, very competitive. Is the essay for that due at the same time or later?</p>
<p>The CBH application and essay are not usually due until early January. Do encourage him to apply. It’s a great research program.</p>
<p>S has some free reports from College Board that expire, can I send one to 'Bama now if they are high enough, or should I wait until he applies? If he doesn’t need to wait for SAT2s and AP’s that should be ok, or not?</p>
<p>Send one of the SAT reports to Alabama, since he plans to apply there. The school does not require SAT IIs, and as for APs, if he takes them again next year and decides to go to Alabama, he can just make on his form to send them there.</p>