<p>@va2015 </p>
<p>Congrats to your D! Yes, she was awarded a bonus for having an ACT 36!</p>
<p>@66Charger
There are many good times to visit! There is hardly a bad time! I don’t advise visiting on weekends because you won’t get to meet with the honors college nor meet with faculty. Do you have a Spring Break? or a time when you have a 3 day weekend or you can miss some school?</p>
<p>mon2collgekids
Yes. She got bonus award. Currently, UA is a top choice for her (Dad also hope she will attend UA, but Mom has some reservation). We will definitely visit UA next spring. From reading the discussion blogs, I think UA is a fantastic place for students. She is not a very top student academically, but she has a very good personality. Teachers and counselor lover her. Even if she does not got in those honors programs, we am perfectly fine for her to attend UA. Everything is up to her.</p>
<p>@va2015 What are mom’s reservations? I’m guessing that you are dad? </p>
<p>mon2collgekids
Yes. I am Dad. Mom wants her to wait before making decisions. Mom wants her to file regular applications for several other schools as planned. If daughter make decision now, she may not apply for other schools in the regular admission. She applied only one early action (result not released yet). </p>
<p>@va2015 </p>
<p>Well, I would make a deal with your DD. I would insist that she apply to a few other schools, but I would allow her to make her deposits (including housing) at Bama now so that if she does go to Bama, she’ll have the better choices in housing. </p>
<p>If your D waits til spring to deposit at Bama, then she may be unhappy with the housing choices that are left and have to go thru the pain-in-the-neck effort of hoping to be able to swap at a later time.</p>
<p>@mon2collgekids,
This is a good suggestion. Thank you very much. I will tell them about this</p>
<p>@va2015
I completely understand your wife’s concerns that your D won’t do any other apps if she commits to Bama. I had to “force” my second son to apply to at least 6 schools. He only wanted to apply to Bama because he was certain that he’d love it and wanted to go. I did deposit at Bama so he could have an early Housing pick, but the agreement was that he had to apply to those other schools. </p>
<p>He did apply to the other schools, and we did visit some of them, but he wanted Bama, and so Bama he went. lol</p>
<p>I just wanted to make sure that he didn’t just have one option come spring. </p>
<p>@mom2collegekids
Yeah, I would really like to visit. My parents talked to some people at a Christmas party the other night who really loved Alabama. They’re from the North too, and they don’t think it’s crazy-Republican or anything. So after that, we’re all pretty excited and we’ll probably try to visit Alabama when we visit other schools like Oklahoma, Wash&Lee, Sewanee, Davidson, etc. </p>
<p>where on the myBama portal can you see if you got accepted?</p>
<p>@66Charger, my son and I visited from PA the Monday students returned from Spring Break this past March. We arrived on a Sunday afternoon when the campus was very quiet, checked into the Capstone Hotel, and then slowly watched the campus “blossom” back to life. It couldn’t have turned out better and was a nice break after a brutal winter in the Northeast. It was our one and only visit and my VERY skeptical kid was SOLD on the school after spending a full day there. In fact, I had to make him visit two other schools he’d been accepted to but hadn’t visited yet so that we could compare their offerings, and I’m glad we did because it helped him realize Bama had everything he wanted . . . at the best price, by far!</p>
<p>I’d encourage you also to apply to the Honors College and have your visit arranged via their staff. They set up everything for us, custom tailored to my son’s interests (and including the general university tour), and it turned out perfect. You have nothing to lose by applying to the Honor’s College and lots of perks (like the ability to register for classes before other students) to gain!</p>
<p>Congrats!</p>
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<p>Yes! Arriving on a Sunday and visiting on Monday is a very good strategy. Another on is to arrive Thursday evening, touring Friday, and departing either Sat or Sun. </p>
<p>Student Gender: female</p>
<p>Home State: Georgia</p>
<p>Date Applied: mid-October</p>
<p>Date Accepted: 12/11</p>
<p>Have you visited the campus?: No. Most likely in Spring</p>
<p>Major: Psychology</p>
<p>Applying to the Honors College?: I don’t know</p>
<p>Career goal(s): Child Psychologist</p>
<p>Any else you’d like to mention: I’m kind of nervous about attending partly because of the out-of-state tuition.</p>
<p>I got my scholaship letter but it says it is for 2/3 tuition. However, I got accepted into engineering which, on their website, says bumps it to full. Is there a separate letter that will come? </p>
<p>@howtosaveuhlife, yes, you’ll get a separate letter from the College of Engineering since that scholarship will come from them. Congratulations!</p>
<p>@howtosaveuhlife </p>
<p>@LucieTheLakie is right.</p>
<p>The award that you got is from the Univ
The other award is from the Col of Eng’g. That will come separately.</p>
<p>Student Gender: female</p>
<p>Home State: Florida</p>
<p>Date Applied: October</p>
<p>Date Accepted: November </p>
<p>Have you visited the campus?: Not yet, but we are visiting in January, brrr…</p>
<p>Major: History / Pre-law</p>
<p>Applying to the Honors College?: Yes</p>
<p>Career goal(s): Corporate Law, Business (at least for today…)</p>
<p>Anything else you’d like to mention: </p>
<p>My daughter is a NMSF, she was awarded a UA presidential scholarship. We are visiting in January and will be doing the campus tour in the morning and then the Honors College in the afternoon. Our local UA Admissions Representative setup the entire day so I’m hoping its a good visit. </p>
<p>A few questions. </p>
<p>If we pay the UA admissions and housing deposits will that cause any issues with other schools that she is already admitted too or applying? </p>
<p>Should she apply to the UA Honors College now? </p>
<p>@mom2collegekids @LucieTheLakie Thank you so much! </p>
<p>There will be no problems with paying deposits now. The issue with “double depositing” has to do with the May 1st deadline. At that point, a decision must be made unless the student has requested extensions.</p>
<p>No other school would even know that your child has deposited. Schools don’t share that info.</p>
<p>Yes, she should apply to the HC now. </p>
<p>How long after receiving notification of admittance do scholarship letters, (presidential, out-of-state) , usually come in the mail? I got accepted a while ago and haven’t heard about the scholarship yet… I’m getting a little nervous I might have done something wrong.</p>
<p>@jrumery </p>
<p>when did you apply and get accepted? Did you send your best scores?</p>
<p>What are the scores from your best sitting?</p>
<p>what is your GPA from grades 9-11?</p>
<p>Your scholarship should have come a few days after acceptance. Maybe it got tossed as junk mail?</p>