My son got an acceptance email on 12/23 and now has his snail mail package also.
Accepted
Stats:
SAT: 2030 (M 770, CR 660, W 600)
GPA: 3.85UW Weighted 4.00
Rank: top 25%, HS doesn’t weight prior to ranking
Subjective:
Essays: Didn’t submit any
Teacher Recs: AP Physics professor, likely strong
Counselor Rec: strong
Hook (if any): Soccer athlete attended camp this past summer at Mines and played in invite game
Location/Person: OOS
School Type: Private
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Male
Major strength/weakness: AP Scholar, 4 year varsity athlete. Not enough time for leadership other than soccer captain 2 years and a few clubs.
Why you think you were accepted/rejected/deferred: Probably M/CR stats and athlete combination. Also HS has sent others who have succeeded at Mines
Going to attend? Not sure yet, still expensive with merit award
Congrats to your awesome students! @LCalum and @Texasmom12!!! Yes, being involved in sports doesn’t leave a lot of time for other things. She also applied to the state flagships and two reach schools but it will be anybody’s guess!
Stats:
SAT: Didn’t take it
SAT IIs: Didn’t take any
ACT: 32 (so mad because I was one question away from a 33)
GPA: 3.94 UW/4.54 W
Rank: 17/394
Other stats: 6 APs first semester, dropped AP Euro because of a dictator-like teacher, at least four honors until junior year when I began taking APs
Subjective:
Essays: Didn’t have to write any (Mines Gold Application)
Teacher Recs: Didn’t have to send any (Gold application)
Counselor Rec: Didn’t have to send one (Gold application)
Hook (if any): Female? First generation immigrant in the U.S.?
Location/Person: In-state
State or Country: Colorado
School Type: Public, general
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Major strength/weakness: filled out the optional “Extracurricular Activities” section of the Gold Application, listed EVERY single one of my extracurriculars (which is a lot)
why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: extracurricular activities lol
going to attend? Maybe, have to hear back from my reaches
Other Factors: None
Congratulations @snowboardchick97! Daughter just received invitation to apply for the Harvey Scholars program. Looks like a bit of work but I think she will try it.
@saismom thank you! I received the invitation as well. Did the email provide any indication of what amount she is eligible for? Because I can’t seem to find it on mine.
From the website: Looks like it is the whole enchilada! " Harvey Scholars receive scholarships covering full tuition and fees, plus enrichment grants for academic and professional activities and supplemental funding for a semester of international study. Both Colorado residents and out-of-state students are eligible to participate in the prestigious program"
Stats:
SAT: N/A
SAT IIs: Math Lv. 2: 670 (Oops) Chemistry: 720 (Oops again)
ACT: 32
GPA: 3.94 UW/4.55 W
Rank: Top Ten Percent
Other stats: 6 APs overall (including AP World (4), APUSH(5), AP Calc AB(Currently taking), AP Chem(5), AP US Government(Currently taking), and AP English Literature(Currently taking)
Subjective:
Essays: Golden Application
Teacher Recs: Golden Application
Counselor Rec: Golden Application
Hook (if any): None: very white, very male, very middle-class, very Catholic. The only minority thing about me is that I’m a lefty. =)
Location/Person: Out-of-state
State or Country: IL
School Type: Private/Parochial
Ethnicity: White (European Mutt)
Gender: Male
Major strength/weakness: Stats, (barring the SAT IIs), extracurriculars
why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Overall solid application, no glaring problems such as low grades on transcript
going to attend? Yes, denied from my reach so CSM has become my number 1. I visited it a few months ago and absolutely love it!
Other Factors: Received invitation for the Harvey Scholarship in January.
Accepted (transfer for CC)
Essay: ±300 words
No recs
No hooks except I did poorly in high school
Location: oos
State: IL
School: community college/public
ethnicity: white
Gender: male
Major strengths/weaknesses: part of multiple school clubs, part of Phi Theta Kappa, completed all my general math credits and physics credits ( Calc 1,2,3 differential equations, Calc-physic 1&2) Associates in Engineering science and science. Weaknesses: retook 20hours of classes which I dropped from 5-6 years ago.
GPA : 3.57
Why I think I was excepted: was kind of surprised that they got back to me within 2 weeks of applying, maybe because my essay and class load.
Going to attend: probably. It was my number 1 choice, depends on financial aid and scholarships between my two choices.
Stats:
SAT: 1780
SAT IIs: n/a
GPA: 4.33 weighted, 3.85 unweighted
Rank: n/a, but top 10/150 if i had to guess
Other stats: ACT: 29, took AP calc, honors english, honors & AP physics, spanish 4 honors, ap AH (all the weighted classes available here)
Subjective:
Essays: invited to Golden app but wrote one anyways
Teacher Recs: golden app
Counselor Rec: golden app
Hook (if any): white, but raised in a military family and then turned rural/farm kid
Location/Person: norcal
State or Country:
School Type: small public charter, project-based
Ethnicity: white
Gender: male
major strength/weakness: lots of work experience, some volunteer, did internships that were engineering related. Scores were decent but not that great.
why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: my extra curriculars set me apart i think, my scores were in the lower half of the middle 50, but I did robotics and lots of things that required me to work with my hands (farm work, welding etc)
going to attend? likely, waiting on other schools. was my number 1 but will depend on financial aid
Other Factors: applied early decision,
My D was accepted in November and received the OOS $12K scholarship - no Harvey invite though. Also accepted at Purdue and waiting on U of M (we are in Michigan). 31 ACT 3.94 UW 4.2 W, lots of AP classes, 2 time captain, MVP and all state cross country runner and 2 state championships in soccer. Environmental club and uses guitar and singing abilities for lots of fundraisers. We plan on visiting in mid-March and may talk to the soccer coach - depends on talking to current players and how hard it is to juggle engineering classes there with sports. Have family in the area so not completely OOS.
I think it’s going to be a NO for my son but we don’t know why. He submitted his application in December and there is still no decision. We called last week and his application is complete but the admission rep said it is marked “No decision”. She had a nervous laugh and kept saying “Um, yeah. No decision.” She then told us to call back in March if we still haven’t heard anything. It’s already been three months. That phone call was the only communication with a person at CSM. It would have been nice if the school had sent an acknowledgement of receipt of application or an email stating the reason for the delay.
After reading the stats of those of you who have been accepted, and comparing my son’s other admissions and merit awards, he was a competitive candidate for admission for CSM.
It is really frustrating since he had submitted his application in plenty of time to be considered for scholarships but with no action on the application he missed deadlines.
I am in the same boat as Scoutermom’s son. My application was complete as of Dec 2 (my application was completed In october but I had to wait for my ACT scores to be sent [33 composite] ) . I called and was told I would have a decision (emailed) by the end of February. Since no email has arrived, I am assuming I was not accepted. CSM seems to be quite unorganized compared to other schools. They keep applicants in the dark for the most part and I guess it’s my fault for applying so late (December is late apparently). Oh well
Stats:
SAT: 2070 ACT 33
GPA: 4.0 unweighted
Rank: 1/823
Did not submit essays or teacher recs.
Other stats: 3 sport varsity athlete,captain of 1,all district in one.Works part time.Eagle Scout.National Merit Finalist
State: Texas
School Type: Large Public Title 1
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
major strengths: Lots of leadership. Over 600 hours of community service.
Major weaknesses: No academic or fine arts type extra curricular activities.
going to attend? No
Other Factors: Offered $48K scholarship.
I don’t even want to go here tbh. I applied as a back up with the intention of getting a decision in 30 days… It has been months and I have heard nothing…
