<p>@paws27 - I am sorry about the disappointing news and wish you the best of luck with you other applications. I was surprised that you received an email from UROC. I thought they only sent out letters?</p>
<p>I was very disappointed (see other thread) with UROC in not meeting promised deadlines. My D applied Priority with a promised decision by Feb 15. The decision was 10+ days late. No apologies. That is unacceptable.</p>
<p>[ color=green][ b]Decision: Accepted**[/color]</p>
<p>[ b]Objective:**[ list]
[ *] ACT: 32
[ *] SAT II: Math 2 (660) Chemistry (630) US History (760)
[ *]weighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.76
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Euro (5), AP Comp. Sci.(3), AP USH (5), AP Bio(4), AP Eng Lit (4), AP Calc BC, AP Physics C Mech, AP Chemistry and AP Eng. Lang.
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics C Mech, AP Chemistry, AP Calc. BC, Science Research, AP English Language, Required Senior English</p>
<p>[ /list]Subjective**[ list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Student Congress (Captain), FTC (Captain/ programmer), Crew
[ *] Job/Work Experience: Summer jobs at town pool and an unpaid internship
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: tutoring mostly
[ *] Summer Activities: student exchange overseas, working
[ *] Essays: Ok, not my best work.
[ *] Interview: Off Campus</p>
<p>[ /list][ b]Other**[ list]
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): NY
[ *] School Type:Private
[ *] Gender: Female</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 700W, 540CR, 770M; 2030
SAT II: Math 2C 740
Weighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.7
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 30%
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc AB, English Honors, AP Psychology, IB Theory of Knowledge</p>
<p>Subjective**
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): ~6 clubs, had positions in 5
Job/Work Experience: 2 part time jobs
Volunteer/Community service: did some political stuff in my town
Essays: nothing special
Additional Rec: family rec. I also added additional info. I emailed my first reader and expanded on/explained more of why I wanted to go to Rochester.
Interview: x</p>
<p>Other
State: NJ
Income Bracket: idk, one of the lower ones
Strengths: idk i thought id get rejected, upward trend
Weaknesses: grades/scores, didn’t take a 4th yr of science
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: they mentioned in my acceptance letter that they liked my essay. i think it’s really great that they took the time to mention why they particularly chose you. makes the letter very, very personal.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: Villanova Rejected: Northeastern, Smith College
General Comments:
To be honest, I thought I was going to get rejected. I’m an Asian female from NJ with a moderately low income and poor grades. I think I got extremely, extremely, extremely lucky and I’m extremely, extremely grateful. I checked the portal site every single day and I think I showed a great amount of interest in the school because it is my first choice.</p>
<p>I’m getting more and more worried as weeks go by. I really don’t think its fair for them to let some people know their decision while not the others. They say that everyone will know their decision by April 1st… I hope its not on the April 1st…</p>
<p>Life isn’t fair, Julia, and certainly college isn’t fair, your grades won’t be fair, the food at URoc will be fair, however. ;
</p>
<p>So on my portal, I’m at step 5 now: “A decision has been made on your application. You will receive a notification letter in the mail.”</p>
<p>Umm, there’s no way I can check it online?</p>
<p>Um…a probable reason for the delay in decisions (especially when they send it by batches through mail) is the fact that they type the letters differently for each applicant. I received my letter today and I realized how personal the letter was - by personal I mean they typed it up such that it reflected the reason why they accepted me as a person and as an applicant - unlike other acceptance letters where they basically send out the same structure and just change the major you’re applying for. Don’t quote me on this but when I read my letter it is as if they really did review my whole application and I was really happy that they included the reason why they accepted me which makes the letter stand out relative to the others. </p>
<p>My daughter received her acceptance in NJ on Saturday.
She is having email problems, so hasn’t checked her portal yet, so I don’t know if there is any scholarship information there.</p>
<p>As much as we love UR, I think that the COA at Northeastern, RPI or Stevens Institute will be much lower, and she will probably end up at one of these schools.</p>
<p>Well from what I’ve been hearing, rejection notification come as an email? </p>
<p>marymac - Your D should get an e-mail about any merit scholarships about a week after receiving the acceptance. This was my D’s experience, as well as the experience of other kids from her school.</p>
<p>still haven’t received a letter… so i’m not expecting any good news i suppose</p>
<p>Ok, today I got an email saying that I got merit based scholarship. I’m an international student and applied Rochester RD. However, I haven’t yet received any email considering my admission decision. Can I assume this as an acceptance? Since I got a scholarship and has ‘pay enrollment deposit’ menu on my MyROC page.</p>
<p>Wailisted. I just figured out that I received an email from them two days ago. It was in my spam box, so if you are not receiving anything, check the spam portion. (I use gmail) </p>
<p>I checked myroc page this morning and my status is still in step 4… and I haven’t received any emails yet about my decision so far. I’m not sure if this is a good sign or a bad sign</p>
<p>@kmj1995kr Same here. A couple of weeks ago I received an email from them about their Family Recommendation option, I think they were like recommending I do it. I almost did but my aunt who was going to write it lives 6 hours away so she can’t sign the application…</p>
<p>So I didn’t do it, but I’m just really weirded out that I haven’t heard anything else from them. All my friends have already gotten their acceptances, and I didn’t think U of R was that much of a stretch for me…but now all this silence has me worried. Has this happened to anyone else? Hopefully I’ll hear back in the next few days. </p>
<p>Hey, I haven’t heard back from them yet either… my portal still says step 4 and nothing in my email or spam (but accepted at harvard??? so I can honestly say it’s not a big concern ahaha).</p>
<p>I was at the 2018 Experience today and the Dean of admissions said they still had several hundred applications to get through. Don’t give up hope!</p>
<p>@pepper17 - thanks for the hope! </p>
<p>Did they mention how many apps they got in or what the admit rate is this year? The admit rate is supposed to be down due to really over-enrolling the last two years.</p>