Congratulations, @averiek !! For anyone else still waiting, my daughter’s admissions officer sent an email to her a little while ago saying that they’re still having system issues with the CHC system. She said they’re sending notices by email this evening. Fingers crossed!
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Thanks for the update! I have yet to receive any notice, but I’ll be checking. Good luck everyone!
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Daughter got the acceptance letter from UO last month with a $10,000/yr out-of-state Summit merit scholarship (we are WA residents). No word yet from Clark Honors College.
For those curious about stats, she was a 3.96 unweighted GPA with 1400 SAT from fall 2019 year pre-covid. I don’t think they looked at SAT this year.
I spoke to my admissions counselor from UO today and she said that many of the EA applications submitted through common app were not registered in the system as EA and that they will review my application in the next few days.
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CHC honors college decisions are coming out on a rolling basis starting dec 15th- the most recent update I have recieved from the admissions officer
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Son received CHC invite.
OOS (CA)
3.9 UW/4.45 W
6 AP/6 Honors
Soccer (Club & School), Link Crew, Tutor for autistic brother, Tutoring virtually during Covid, Created Pen Pal organization for Elderly
No test scores submitted
Previously received Summit Scholarship and Lundquist admittance.
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My daughter got an email with her acceptance to CHC yesterday. She’s very appreciative of the scholarship and CHC acceptance, but she has decided to attend another university. Best of luck to everyone in making your college selection!
My daughter still hasn’t heard from CHC. She has a 3.96 UW GPA, 1400 SAT, 8 AP classes, and the usual assortment of athletics and extracurriculars. She already got the OOS Summit Merit Award. No decisions made yet, but I think UO is something of a backup for her to UW which would be in-state and about $22,000/yr cheaper, even with the merit award. But she won’t hear from UW until March.
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I applied December 1st, 2020 and still haven’t heard anything. Worried.
Does anyone know if they still let you apply for the CHC after submitting the application?
And I’d greatly appreciate it if you could share the amount of Summit scholarship with us as I am also OOS and they have not mentioned scholarship amounts on the website this year.
The Summit Scholarship is $10000 a year for 4 years for OOS students.
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Hi @Rohit17 . I’m sorry that I just saw your note. As someone else mentioned, Summit scholarship is $40K ($10K per year for four years). I looked on the CHC website and found this:
“If you apply to the UO (but not CHC) during the early admissions cycle, you can still apply to the CHC during the regular admissions cycle by contacting admissions@uoregon.edu”
So it sounds like you can still apply for CHC!
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Daughter just received a big green Clark Honors College Acceptance package in the mail today. She applied to CHC back when she applied to the UO in November and this is the very first that we have heard from CHC. To my knowledge she never received any other emails or notice back when others were receiving it.
So those of you who were hoping on CHC I guess check your mailboxes.
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Has anyone out of state received the UofO Excellence Scholarship? When my son received his acceptance early this year he was awarded Summit and was invited to apply for Stamps which I know is a long shot. It seemed however, that Excellence was awarded later and would be awarded in lieu of Summit. He’s interested in UofO but the out of state costs even with Summit are much higher than other out of state offeres he’s received.
We are is the same boat with UofO and the scholarships was pretty low compared to his other OOS offers. Haven’t heard anything about the Excellence Scholarship being awarded.
We are debating a visit now. Have you visited the school?
Given the current cost we are prioritizing visits to others schools. If Excellence was available to him we might reconsider that approach.
Both K12 and higher ed budgets in Oregon have been suffering in recent years (or for a long time frankly) due to a lot of issues with the tax code and demographics of the state.
Charging high out-of-state tuition is one way that UO and other schools have been coping with their budget crunch. Merit aid for OOS students is just a pricing mechanism, nothing more. And as long as they can bring in enough warm bodies to pay OOS tuition with the meager merit aid they currently offer they will continue to do so. So I wouldn’t expect any overly generous merit awards for OOS students. That defeats the whole purpose.
I was looking at the admissions stats recently and it looks like UO is at or near the threshold where there are more OOS students than in-state. Which for me is kind of eye-opening considering the population growth in OR over the past two decades and the fact that no new universities have been built in OR over that time other than the tiny OSU branch campus in Bend.
In our case, D21 got the $10,000 OOS merit award from UO but it would still have been about $10,000 more costly to attend than Lewis & Clark or UPS which were much more generous in merit awards, and a whopping $22,000 more to attend than UW, our in-state flagship.
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Yes, I agree with all of that. It’s really a communication thing. I’m simply trying to see if the scholarships that the AO specifically mentioned may or or may not still come through. My assumption is that they will not; he’d like to confirm that before he declines his acceptance.
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son just heard today of his acceptance but he applied the day of the cut-off.