<p>Please Help!!
University of Delaware is one of my top choices of schools ... Please chance me!!</p>
<p>Senior - PA resident</p>
<p>Taken all College Prep and Honors classes
2 years of Spanish
3 Lab Sciences
Art Classes</p>
<p>My cumulative GPA is an 85% (upward trend). I had a 3.5 my entire junior year with all Honors and CP classes.
Decile ranking is about a 4 or 5 out of 10, so about top 50% of my class!</p>
<p>Classes for Senior Year:
Ceramics
CP Statistics
CP Trig / Pre-calc
CP Civics / Economics
H. Global
H. English
AP Psychology</p>
<p>I should have great teacher recommendations and a really well developed essay.</p>
<p>Lots of good EC's:
Chairman of my Church's Youth Ministry Board
Church Retreat Leader
Student Council Advisor (officer position)
Head of Powder Puff
Organizing a 5K run to benefit a great cause
Student Council (10-12)
Marketing Club (11)
operation Smile (9)
Track and Field (9)
Volunteer for a school with kids who have learning disabilities
Internship / Volunteering with a group that raises money for the district to provide programs for schools.
Leadership Conferences
Honor Roll (every year)
Lots of community service credits on my transcript</p>
<p>Will be submitting my ACT Scores. From June my composite was a 20, however, I have been taking an ACT Prep Class and I am hoping to score at least a 24 or 25!</p>
<p>Hi, I’m not going to say it’s impossible for you to get in but you’re gonna have to really work your senior year and let U Del know it’s your first choice loud and clear. </p>
<p>I just looked at the stats posted on college board. It’s going to be a bit of a struggle coming from out of state. Just from their stats they show that 79% of their students come from the top 25% of their graduating class. that’s not to say you don’t come from a super competitive school where that ranking may make you appear lower than you are but I just went off their stats. </p>
<p>You will really need to dig in and study for those ACT’s. Give it your all! I’m sure you can raise that grade, you will want to get closer to a 26 to be accepted but hopefully you had one or two high scores on your previous test and u del does super score the ACTs. </p>
<p>your courses look pretty good for this year. you will have do excel this first semester and get those transcripts in to show how well you’ve done. The U del application process will benefit you since they will not make a final decision on your until after those grades will be in.<br>
I wish you’d had more years of a language. In NJ now the minimum and my children’s school is 3 years of the same language and although U del only requires 2 they recommend taking all 4 years. I’m sure there are many out there that have been accepted with 2 but that’s just my take on it. </p>
<p>Continue to work on your community service, let them know what responsibilities you had with each and how valuable you were to your groups. </p>
<p>Make sure you establish a relationship with an admissions counselor and interview. let them know how much you want to be there. your passion and enthusiasm can sometimes move mountains in this process. they want kids that want to be there! </p>
<p>good luck to you! you came across very well in your question as someone who has pride and enthusiasm, I’m sure U Del would be proud to have you as long as you keeping working hard. :)</p>
<p>I just had to go on the udel website to check something and I came upon this page with the profile of the class of 2016. (incoming freshman) if you go to the right side under the new student logo there are tabs that show the average stats of this years attending students. this should be a good measuring stick since it seems to get more and more competitive each year. </p>
<p>The stats listed are very informative but are not broken down for OOS students verses Delaware residents. I suspect the stats (GPA scores and standardized test scores) would be slightly higher for OOS students overall compared to Delaware residents (similar to most State Flagship Universities). Just my perspective.</p>
<p>if I read the link correctly, the stats sited for GPA and SAT/ACT are only for OOS. This is what they said…
Below are approximate ranges for the grade point averages and the standardized test scores of the middle 50% of our out-of-state applicants who were offered Fall 2012 admission.</p>
<p>I assume because of the commitment to Delawareans, they don’t like using their stats when bragging. I also noticed that if you read crefully, they also inflate the ACT numbers, by adding in an SAT equivalent to those numbers. The ACT number they posted is 29. That is not accurate. They took the SAT numbers and converted them. I think this inflates the number. On the Common data set, and in conversations I had with admissions, the middle fifty is around 26 ACT. Don’t be fooled by what you see here. Read the Common data set for a clearer picture…</p>
<p>Coming from PA, I don’t think you have much chance with your current stats or rank. You should definitely apply, but have other options you can be happy with.</p>
<p>The info reported in the link is tabulated data for the class of 2016, there is no mention that this data is only OOS. The Common Data Set including the class of 2016 has not yet been published (at least not on the UD website).</p>
<p>I did not mean to suggest that the Common Data Set is reflective of 2016. However, I am correct in that the data on the sight, that Lefty1 linked to, does say the stats are for out of state. I copied and pasted in my previous post right from the sight. IF you click on the tab that says Number of new freshman, and scroll to the oos student section…It says the following data (referring to the Grade point average section) is only for OOS students.
It also says that the ACT does not reflect just the ACT average, rather they translate SAT scores to ACT. They also reflect superscoring in these numbers, and then they translate the superscore to ACT… </p>
<p>Sorry, just wanted to point out the statements on the sight, that many might overlook, and over react to…
The 2011 common Data Set says the range of ACT 25%-75% is 25-29. I assume this means that 27 or so is really the 50 percentile…</p>
<p>OK socaldad, I see what you mean. Actually the site is somewhat misleading in the way it is laid out. If you just just click on the GPA icon without first clicking on the Number of New Freshman icon you would not know that the stats listed applied just to OOS students. Hopefully others will read the site correctly in sequence.</p>
<p>Socaldad, I do agree with you however i do feel those numbers to be close to the mark for 2012 admissions. I’ve found with scoring the translation from act to sat is usually more favorable for students than the other way around. My d had a superscore of 30. (she did not qualify for honors and was told she was just outside the range) Several of her classmates. (OOS) many scored in the mid 20’s and were not admitted. Admissions told us the spike in requirements went through the roof this year and had their biggest increase ever. That would make sense since as of this past fall/spring admissions only had 2011 date to go on. Every year it does get tougher. So although every school likes to plump things to make it look better I don’t think the data on there is far off the mark. Since the OP is OOS it’s a good estimate that they would have to get near the mid 20’s on ACT or better to be admitted esp coming from PA where the application pool runs very deep.</p>
<p>Point of reference for NY OOS admits/denies
Class of 2012 locally NY suburbs
Two (1700 range) under 1800 (both females) SAT were denied
ACT of 30 and SAT of 1980 + above garnered merit money both males.</p>
<p>Two males public all AP classes available for 10th, 11th 12th
Two girls private middle track college prep classes denied</p>
<p>I am sure that Delaware continues to recruit better students, and numbers are trending up.
I do think that it might not be as high as they like everyone to believe. I know we live far away, and we are not competing against the same pool, but I know my daughter and three others from our area that got in with 22, 23, 25, and 25 ACT scores. Perhaps the desire to expand their geographic reach allowed for lower scores, or perhaps they also looked at the holistic applicant.<br>
i guess, I hate to tell anyone that they don’t have a shot. We were the beneficiaries of a concerted effort to gain admission to UDEl. We feel fortunate, and hope that others work for their dreams. I agree that if you are not in the sweet spot for admissions, you better work hard to set yourself apart, and you better have some solid safeties that you would be happy to attend…
I am not intending to be controversial, I do think U Del is unique compared to other Big State U’s. I know that in some cases they look at much more than grades and scores. I commend and thank them for that…</p>
<p>To add more data here, the average accepted ACT score from our large public high school on Long Island (NY) is 26 and the average accepted GPA (doesn’t say weighted or unweighted) is 91.94. </p>
<p>I do think it’s more competitive from states that have large representation at UD - New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. You have a better opportunity for success by marketing yourself if you are from a state that doesn’t have a good representation there (like California).</p>
<p>I really think the OP needs to get the ACT score up to at least at 25 and have a back-up plan to UD that he really likes.</p>
<p>socaldad, I absolutely agree with all you said. I think it’s so awesome that kids will be attending from all over the country. I think it’s great that the schools reach is expanding and my D will be going to school with kids from across the country. I believe U del would not accept anyone that does not show the promise or desire to be the student they like to have on campus and that does go beyond the scores. With strong grades and community service I’m sure each one accepted in Ca showed them something special.</p>
<p>I agree you never want to discourage anyone to achieve their dreams! that’s why I mentioned doing all the extras to let them know how important it is to the student. Here in NJ my D’s high school was listed in ranking as #176 in the nation last year due to rigor of studies # of Ap’s offered, etc… their class report came out and they had 53 kids apply and 19 accepted. (3 are attending) There were quite a few that were devastated by this news. Aside from Rutgers, U Del is one of the few D1 bigger schools close by. I know many of those kids were strong across the board. Good solid, hardworking smart kids involved in much and IMHO kids that would have been perfect at UD. My heart broke for the few that this was their number 1 choice. I can’t say for sure were how aggressive they were in the application process. Maybe they were on the cusp but just didn’t communicate to UD that the school was their #1 choice. </p>
<p>Also being close by many apply in our area with no intention of attending. They want to have a back up school close by in case their number 1 didn’t come through. So I think admissions may hold back a bit with admissions with the local states to keep their numbers in check. </p>
<p>My purpose for OP was to let them know it may not be a cake walk in but it can happen. You never want to look back and think, “oh if I only interviewed” or “If I only made personal contact” etc… Oh what I wouldn’t do to get an inside look at the admissions process! lol!</p>
that’s why I mentioned doing all the extras to let them know how important it is to the student. Here in NJ my D’s high school was listed in ranking as