<p>Student Gender: Female</p>
<p>Home State: Louisiana</p>
<p>Date Applied: August 17</p>
<p>Date Accepted: N/A</p>
<p>Have you visited the campus?: Not yet</p>
<p>Major: Chemical Engineering</p>
<p>Applying to the Honors College?: Yes</p>
<p>Career goal(s): undecided</p>
<p>Any else you’d like to mention:</p>
<p>Were those acceptance letters that were emailed out today? I couldn’t tell.</p>
<p>@Co1ton I don’t think they were acceptance letters, I think they were to let us know that our applications are being reviewed. They don’t send out acceptance emails to my knowledge. It should be any day now, though!</p>
<p>I spoke with the Upper Midwest representative this week. He sent us the same email today, so it must be a generic mass mailing to those who have applied. What he told me is that they are going to start deciding on applications after Labor Day and that we should hear from UA within two weeks. Much later than last year… my conjecture, based partly on statistics from the school’s fact book, which shows a sharp upturn in applications over the past five years, is that their applications are through the roof this year. In other words, they’re swamped. </p>
<p>The word is OUT. Happy families are telling their friends and neighbors, and UA has become a hot school, especially for kids looking for merit money. Good luck to all those applying! </p>
<p>Once my son visited UA (and subsequently told all of his friends at school last year) there were 7 students from his school accepted as class of '14. The UA Regional Recruiter has now scheduled a presentation at his school for next week for the next crop (class of '15) and the 25 available seats were filled in a matter of hours. DS is a probable NMF, which certainly influenced his views because of the way they’ve interacted with him, but he’d still feel strongly positive either way. In the SAT tutoring class he’s employed with, many of it’s students are asking him questions about Alabama all of the time now. The cat is definitely out of the bag down here!</p>
<p>At the DC area information session last spring, UA booked a large hotel ballroom that seated about 500 people, and it was completely filled.</p>
<p>No one has been accepted yet, but wanted that in the title for future posts.</p>
<p>Copy paste the below and put in your answers. (it’s ok for parents to post about their child if they want)</p>
<p>Student Gender: female</p>
<p>Home State: Florida</p>
<p>Date Applied: 08/27/2014</p>
<p>Date Accepted:</p>
<p>Have you visited the campus?: no but my mom went there, hoping to visit this fall when I go to Alabama to visit family</p>
<p>Major: Biology/pre-med</p>
<p>Applying to the Honors College?: yes</p>
<p>Career goal(s): to become a physician</p>
<p>Any else you’d like to mention: GPA is 3.75
ACT is 28
SAT is 1720</p>
<p>Has a class of 2019 facebook page been made yet?</p>
<p>Student Gender: Female</p>
<p>Home State: Georgia</p>
<p>Date Applied: 8/26/2014</p>
<p>Date Accepted: Need to send transcript but can’t do so until after Labor Day</p>
<p>Visited: Yes</p>
<p>Major: Engineering/Marine Science</p>
<p>Applying to Honors College? Yes</p>
<p>GPA: >3.9
ACT: 34</p>
<p>Man, there are a lot of really smart students here making me look bad. </p>
<p>Also, how long after I send in my transcript will I hear back? I can’t send it in until after school begins. </p>
<p>Student Gender: Male</p>
<p>Home State: Wisconsin</p>
<p>Date Applied: 7/8/14</p>
<p>Date Accepted: Soon, we hope.</p>
<p>Have you visited the campus?: Yes. Took a trip down in late June. Campus is beautiful! People were very nice: in Honors, visiting with History professor, etc.</p>
<p>Major: History/Classics/Languages</p>
<p>Applying to the Honors College?: yes</p>
<p>Career goal(s): Writer/Historian</p>
<p>Any else you’d like to mention: SAT 2270, HS varsity XC but may try crew in college.</p>
<p>Student Gender: Male</p>
<p>Home State: CT</p>
<p>Date Applied: Not yet</p>
<p>Date Accepted: n/a</p>
<p>Have you visited the campus?: no</p>
<p>Major: mechanical engineering</p>
<p>Applying to the Honors College?: no</p>
<p>Career goal(s): </p>
<p>Any else you’d like to mention: I come from a very competitive school/district and have a 3.1 GPA. I took pre-calculus (2.7), chemistry (3.0), Intro to Engineering (4.0), and Principles of Engineering 1 (3.3), currently taking calculus and physics. 1070 SAT scores (out of 1600) Math 570, Reading 450. Took the ACT, composite score of 23, Math was a 27, English was 19. English test scores not on the high end, but English classes GPA ~3.0. Taking them both again in October. What are my chances of being accepted and can any financial aid be expected? Thanks</p>
<p>^^
Welcome! You will likely be accepted, but you won’t qualify for any merit scholarships. Is that what you were asking about?</p>
<p>@MpkDad (are you the parent or student? ) How much will your family pay towards college? Publics generally don’t give need-based aid to cover the OOS costs. The OOS costs are charged for a reason - the family doesn’t pay taxes in the state. It would make little sense for a school to charge OOS rates and then cover them with need-based aid. Does that make sense? </p>
<p>Accepted…ROLL TIDE!</p>
<p>@bamagirls Congratulations!! You have been accepted to the 48th best overall school in the country according to Niche 2015 college rankings.</p>
<p><a href=“https://colleges.niche.com/rankings/best-overall/?utm_source=bronto&utm_medium=email&utm_term=View+the+Ranking&utm_content=2014-09-02&utm_campaign=Everything+you+need+to+know+about+College+Rankings”>https://colleges.niche.com/rankings/best-overall/?utm_source=bronto&utm_medium=email&utm_term=View+the+Ranking&utm_content=2014-09-02&utm_campaign=Everything+you+need+to+know+about+College+Rankings</a></p>
<p>According to Niche, Alabama received the same overall letter grade ranking as Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley, the Ivy schools and other top LAC and universities.</p>
<p>Student Gender: Male</p>
<p>Home State: Illinois</p>
<p>Date Applied: 7/2/14</p>
<p>Date Accepted: 9/2/14</p>
<p>Have you visited the campus?: Twice; Once during University Days and once with the day scheduled through the Honors College.</p>
<p>Major: Mechanical Engineering</p>
<p>Applying to the Honors College?: Yes</p>
<p>Career goal(s): </p>
<p>Any else you’d like to mention: Roll Tide! (posting for my son who doesn’t visit College Confidential)</p>
<p>Student Gender: Male</p>
<p>Home State: Florida</p>
<p>Date Applied: 7/1</p>
<p>Date Accepted: 9/2 !</p>
<p>Have you visited the campus?: Yes (Twice)</p>
<p>Major: Chemical Engineering or MIS</p>
<p>Applying to the Honors College?: Yes & CBHP</p>
<p>Career goal(s): Chemical Engineer, MBA…& or Medical School</p>
<p>Any else you’d like to mention: Likely NMF who’s family would love for him to spend a few years with the great people associated with U. of Alabama! </p>
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<li>(Replying for DS whose arm I would have to twist too hard to post on CC!)</li>
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<p>Wisconsin son just got acceptance on MyBama!</p>
<p>I think I got accepted, I have the new student tab now, is that what it means?</p>