<p>My son will apply this year, he is a senior in HS, OOS, NY. 7 AP, all honors, 30 ACT, 1260 SATS. Will be retaking both. Band all through HS, part time job. NHS, Spanish HS, SADD, Key Club. Lacrosse. what are his chances for admission, and possibly scholarship?</p>
<p>ACT’s nice, but they will still want to know his GPA, w/uw.</p>
<p>I forgot to add that, GPA UW 90, weighted 92 . thanks.</p>
<p>You’ll certainly be admitted and get some merit money, how much will depend on lots of things. Unfortunately, you’ll have to wait a long time to find out.</p>
<p>Thanks for your reply. He is undecided about his major, but in the future, might want to apply to medical school, so we are thinking a medium size university, with a good amount of majors because he is undecided at this point, with good pre med advising. He is also applying to Bing, Clemson, University of Maryland, Vtech, JMU(my older son is there) UNC, maybe UVA and Cornell. I visited UDEL with my older son in 2008. We liked it, but he ended up not accepted, so is at JMU, which worked out well, because he loves it and is doing well.</p>
<p>My daughter just started at UD. We cannot cannot say enough good things about it so far. As far as your son goes he would certainly be accepted, maybe even into honors which is a really nice program. He would likely get some merit, maybe in the $4-8k range per year, although I am really speculating and basing it on my daughter and one other student both who got more than that, but have higher stats. I would not have much hope for UVA or UNC. He is not even close for an OOS student. Cornell is iffy. Hope this helps for perspective. My advice is apply to lots of schools so that the are lots of options when the time comes. Lots of things happen in that senior year that cause them to change their minds. What sounds like a plan in October can be a long forgotten mEmory in April.</p>
<p>Thanks for the responses. We are being realistic about UNC UVA and Cornell. Admissions decisions can be so unpredictable, and for boys, sometimes the admissions bar is different, depending on the schools. So, we will see. So, good to hear your daughter likes UDEL, so far. Like I said, when we visited in 2008, with my older so, we liked it a lot. Don’t remember the dorms much, how are they? Also, we didn’t get a chance to poke around the town, when we went, so we are going back to visit in September.</p>
<p>Dorms are ok…nothing special. My daughter is in the honors dorm and it is coed on every floor, clean, wireless, with hall bathrooms that seem acceptable. The rooms are adequate in size. </p>
<p>The outstanding feature of UD has been the almost uniform level of positivity from everyone we encountered…students, faculty, administration, parents, alums, parents of alums, etc. I literally could not find anyone who had anything bad to say other than it is not ranked as highly as schools that rank higher…dah. </p>
<p>For my daughter, UD started out as a super safety school, but as the search went on it kept rising on her list. In the end it came down to william and mary, university of Richmond, wake forest, and villanova. Just aver noon at “Day for accepted students” she said, I don’t want to disappoint you, but I want to go to UD". I was very happy on so many levels, but mainly because she had arrived at that decision after a rigorous process. </p>
<p>I would say, if UD is a serious contender for your son, spend some quality time there. It really is different. I sort of fell like there are schools that individually score higher on the key attributes, but it is hard to find a school that scores so highly and constantly across so many attributes. In fact, in our search, only UVA fared better across the board, but alas, she only got wait listed there. Having said that, UD’s proximity and access to DC, Philly, Baltimore, NYC, and the beach, meant a lot to my daughter. Finally, newark’s mainstreet just adjacent to campus is one of the nicest off-campus college town downtowns that we encountered.</p>
<p>Thanks for you reply. I don’t know if it is a serious contender for him, but we are going to a tour, at the end of September, and will see from there. My older son is at JMU, and we have visited many times. I hope this son is not of the opinion that every school will be like JMU. The dorms my older son was in were beautiful, clean, large, AC, two students in each bedroom, two bedrooms with an adjoining bathroom. So, no hallway bathrooms, in that particular dorm. 4 boys, sharing one bathroom. I would love him to go to JMU, but he wants his own thing. I do like UDEL, and from what I remember, it has a lot of similarities to JMU.</p>
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<p>That’s exactly like the dorm (George Read) my son was in his freshman year at UD. It’s a longer walk to classes than some of the other housing, but the bus service is excellent: [Independence</a> Complex](<a href=“http://www.udel.edu/has/independence.html]Independence”>http://www.udel.edu/has/independence.html).</p>
<p>While i would encourage everyone to weight freshman housing very lightly (or not even at all) in making their college choice, I will say that several schools and articles make a strong case for the traditional dorm (non-suite) for freshman. The argument is that the traditional dorm hall experience creates a stronger sense of community and camaraderie and builds a stronger social base for the remainder of their years at that school. Makes sense to me, and it sounds like that is the case for my daughter one week into it, but everyone is different thankfully…</p>
<p>They develop friendships and bond no matter what. My D was at a college that has all freshmen (and most upperclassmen) in suites, with no hallways; whole entryways became friends. Come to think of it, my college experience was like this as well, and it was no barrier at all to making lots of friends.</p>
<p>For S, there was plenty of socializing in the George Read halls. Independence complex dorms are just like ‘regular’ dorms in that the rooms are set up along long hallways - the only difference is having the shared bathrooms between two rooms rather than the big communal bathrooms. S did housing selection for this year in a group of 40(!)</p>
<p>like I said, everyone is different, but like Booklady, they usually advocate/defend what they experienced themselves…that is just human nature. Also, be careful, plenty of kids do not bond socially, and that fact is often cited as the primary mode of failure for freshmen.</p>
<p>Still, I would say that unless there are extenuating circumstances, I would heavily discount the dorm situation in selecting a college. Most healhy humans are highly adaptable and will thrive regardless.</p>