<p>I submitted my app to CLA on October 23, and my app tracker still says "All of your required application materials have been received. Thank you! Students whose complete applications are submitted by the priority deadline will receive their decisions by the end of February. Students whose complete applications are submitted after the priority deadline are considered on a space-available basis beginning in March. ."
I'm getting a bit concerned because one of my friends (with slightly higher stats) applied for CSE in December and heard back in January. Has anyone else not heard back yet? Could this mean that I was denied admission and they just haven't sent me anything yet?</p>
<p>I'd appreciate it if you could "chance me", here are some of my stats
28 ACT
3.3 UW GPA (horrible grades in regular classes freshman year, went to a 4.0 in my sophomore year and now im getting 3.5-3.7 with all honors classes)
56%th percentile (school does not weight grades so they are terribly inflated)
ECs: FIRST Robotics (Department captain), Key Club, Varsity tennis, Hound Pack (my schools version of Link Crew), member of a fairly prestigious orchestra group in my school a few different orchestras in my city.
Hopefully good rec from my Robotics coach
I'm also accepted at UMD already if that means anything.</p>
<p>I applied in september and still have not heard! They said they would get back to me by the end of February :/</p>
<p>I posted this a few days ago on another thread:
"Finally an update I got a call from an admissions counselor last night after I emailed the admissions office. Basically, he told me I was going to be admitted to the university BUT the reason that my application is taking so long is because my first choice was College of Science & Engineering. Since it’s one of the most competitive UMinn colleges, I am borderline. They want to wait until the end of the process to make sure they don’t admit too many students to CSE.</p>
<p>In other words, if you are still waiting on a decision it may simply be because you are on a “wait list” for your first choice college."</p>
<p>Dude, I freaking applied on September 15th and I still haven’t heard back. I have the same exact stats as you and I have three ec’s. My sister applied two years ago with a 3.2 weighted gpa, a 29 act, 0 ec’s, no essays or letters of recommendations, applied after the priority deadline and got in, so if I don’t get in I’m going to punch a wall.</p>
<p>Last year, I didn’t hear back until Feb and got waitlisted. Didn’t hear back again until April, still waitlisted. Then again in May, but got accepted. Now I can sit back and enjoy people freaking out.</p>
<p>@Gman24
what college did you apply for? I have some other friends with similar stats that applied for CLA that haven’t gotten a decision yet either, but everyone I know that applied for CSE has already gotten in. I’m wondering if it has something to do with that.</p>
<p>@Gangplank
haha -_- I’m guessing that this is what’s going to happen to me if I get in at all. what were your stats if you dont mind me asking?</p>
<p>My stats are pretty bad as I slacked through out high school. </p>
<p>HS gpa- around 3.5 I think
ACT- 24, didn’t study at all
No EC</p>
<p>Good thing I brought with me 45 credits from a community college. I did good in math, finished all 4 Calc by the end of high school which really helped. I applied for CSE but got into CLA.</p>
<p>I applied to the college of liberal arts. The only reason I would get angry if I don’t get accepted is that my sister got accepted and she had worst stats than I do except that she had one point higher on the act. If the U of M required essays then I would probably understand, but there is nothing on the application for her that stuck out. It’s a sibling rivalry thing.</p>
<p>It took them exactly four months to get back to me. I feel that they don’t have the right to call these “rolling” admissions when they don’t actually “roll” anywhere but sit on someone’s desk for dozens of weeks accumulating dust.
Anyway, I did get accepted (OOS) but the wait was torturous. FYI, my letter (for CLA) came before the status changed online. Hopefully you’ll hear back soon; if you don’t by the end of February you definitely have the right to give them a stern call.</p>
<p>I don’t think that they ignore applications for months and months and then finally read them. My understanding is that they evaluate applications as they come in and make decisions about all the ones that are obvious decisions. They then send out acceptances to strong applicants relatively quickly. I’m not sure what they do with very weak applicants who stand no chance of admittance. For more borderline applicants they want to wait and see how strong the overall applicant pool is and thus they need to initially evaluate all the applications before they can make final decisions on the borderline applicants.</p>
<p>hey moniixo, did they email you that you were waitlisted or did they send you an email? because i still have not heard back and i’m not sure whether or not i should be checking the mailbox in front of my house or the one on my computer. i mean do they send you an email first??</p>