<p>I recently was accepted into a UConn branch school, but I was unable to get into my first choice of main campus at Storrs. </p>
<p>I have a 3.3 GPA, 1800 on my SATS and I'm involved in many extra curricular activities. I'm also an Eagle Scout. </p>
<p>I have a two questions.</p>
<p>1.) Is there any possible way I can still get into the Storrs campus? Should I call the college and tell them how much it means to me to go to the main campus? </p>
<p>2.) Is commuting to a branch school that bad? I got into the West Hartford branch, but I would like to have the full college experience of living on a campus. Waiting 2 years to get into Storrs seems a long time from now, especially that all my friends will be on a real college campus while I'm commuting.</p>
<p>If anyone has any experiences or suggestions with this please let me know. Thanks!</p>
<p>Sorry to hear. I don’t know what UCONN is looking for? If your an Eagle Scout and your GPA and SAT’s look good from what others are posting seems like you should be in. What was your Math score and class rank? I would be interested in reading what ever you find out. Please post.</p>
<p>I got a 600 on my math, reading and writing.</p>
<p>I’m in the top third of my class. I’m glad I’m not the only one that was a little surprised when I didn’t get into the main campus. Hopefully a letter of appeal will give me at least a chance to get into the main campus, because if I did get in there would be almost an 100% chance I would be going.</p>
<p>There admissions confuses me…
I know a lot of people who got in with MUCH lower scores and gpa than you.
But I’m sure with the letter of appeal you will get in!
good luck :)</p>
<p>Frankly, I am not sure how successful an appeal will be. But, it is certainly worth a try. There are a variety of factors that go into the admissions process and they receive an incredible amount of applicants. Remember, this is only Early Action…regular decision is next week. </p>
<p>You may be more successful at transferring after a year at the branch campus. I have heard of students doing that. Branch campuses can have smaller classes in the gen eds and would save you money. There are advantages. You need to decide what works for you.</p>
<p>I do not understand how an SAT score of 1800 and a good GPA and Eagle Scout does not get you into the main campus. From what I have read regarding UCONN admissions these scores and grades are within the middle 50 percentile of admission, maybe on the lower side of the range but I would think eagle scout would put you over. Did you specify a major that may have required even better SATs and GPA? I have read and heard of students getting into UCONN main campus with close but lower GPA and SATs. Does anyone know how UCONN weights the applications ? GPA higest, SAT next, Essay next .?</p>
<p>I’ve heard with Uconn that they really like to look at the WHOLE application.
Their not just set on the highest gpa or highest sat/act score.
They look at an individuals grades in junior and senior year, as well as seeing what extra curricular activities they did.
And they take the essay into consideration.</p>
<p>To allbusiness1: depending on where you live, you can attend a branch school for only 1 semester and transfer after that. My friend did that and now shes at storrs!</p>
<p>I did apply to the business program, which from what I hear only has a 20% acceptance rate. Attending the branch school may not be such a bad option for me, it just is tough not having the full college experience of a campus. Still, saving that kind of money is a huge advantage. </p>
<p>A friend of mine did give me an idea to apply again regular admission into the ACES program at Storrs. Is this even possible to apply a second time? I have heard that to get into the business program Junior year of college is extremely difficult, which is why I didn’t apply ACES in the first place. You need at least a 3.6 GPA which seems ridiculous and I wasn’t ready to take that risk.</p>
<p>My son was accepted to the business school this last year. I am pretty sure that your GPA and SAT scores are on the low side for the business school. A couple of my sons friends were accepted to other UCONN campuses with higher scores (rejected to storrs). Uconn should consider students for general admission if they fail to get into their desired prgram, good luck</p>
<p>UCONN DOES consider students for the ACES if you do not get admitted to your chosen school. There is a place on the application that asks you that. Along with the question about alternative campus. School of Business and the School of Engineering have higher requirements than some of the other programs. It is hard to transfer into the Business school once you are there, I could not tell you the benchmark GPA but at least a B+ gpa.
The business school is also very clear that it drops students out into another school say CLAS if you do not keep a certain GPA.</p>
<p>UCONN rates as “Very Important” admissions criteria: Rigor of curriculum, class rank, GPA and standardized test scores. How rigorous was your high school schedule? Connecticut also indicates that 79% of the class was ranked in the top 25% of their high school class, so this might have hurt you. Also, your 600 SAT I Math score would put you in the bottom third of accepted students. Since the Business School has even higher requirements than the university-at-large these factors may well have weighed against you.</p>
<p>im suprised you did not get into ACES at least your grade and SAT score are good enough. Your math score definitely does not put you in the bottom third of accepted students, look at the averages and trust me a know alot of people below them. Everyone is right about the Business school being tougher to get accepted to but the Business school isnt too difficult to get admitted to and its pretty easy to transfer into once you are here.</p>
<p>My daughter was just accepted for the Hartford Branch, the ACES program. She is pre-teaching, elementary ed. She’s not happy with the decision either, she wanted to be at Storrs. Not sure what she will decide to do now.</p>
<p>You will note that 4% of accepted students scored between 400-499 on the SAT Math section. 29% scored between 500-599. That’s 33% right there. A 600 was right above the 33rd percentile in 2010. Probably about the same in 2011. </p>
<p>So the OP scored right around the 33rd percentile.</p>
<p>Either way uconn has it posted on their website that that for the current freshman at storrs the average two section sat score was a 1218. Really not much higher than your 1200 putting you barely below the 50 percentile. Btw I am sorry Hudson for appearing to be rude I just didn’t think those numbers were very realistic especially with the average sat scores.</p>
<p>Im still a junior, in highschool, my overall gpa is 3.0. only 2 honor classes, no extra curricular and only volunteered at hospital for a year (3 weeks). Haven’t taken SAT’s yet but lets say that it is around 1800-2000. What are my chances of getting in to one of the branches or storrs? better to go to a cc and transfer, or eastern? :(</p>
<p>My son is a current freshman at UCONN majoring in Mech. eng. He had a 3.3 GPA 1980 (600W 720M 660CR) and was also an Eagle Scout. Some schools at UCONN definitely have tougher admission standards. He was told that for the School of Engineering about a 1320 (M and CR) score was needed. </p>
Sorry to hear that you didnt get into the storrs campus. But its not a horrible thing that you got into a branch. A very common thing that most people do is transfer to storrs after 1 year. If you’re wondering why you may not have gotten in with a 3.3 gpa i think i may have an idea. Do you know if thats your gpa from your high school or if thats UCONNs recalculation of it? Because i know some schools recalculate the gpa to get rid of certain requirement classs out of your gpa. For example my school has religion as a requirement course for all 4 years of high school and i have a 3.79 gpa but when i applied to USF they recalculated it down to a 3.4. Its unfortunate that high schools make you take classes that at the end of the day “dont matter” to the universities you’re applying to.
Last year it was the same situation. My son in top 5%, great EC’s, varsity sports, multiple musical ensembles (with leadership), editor of newspaper, several AP’s with passing grade, great letters of recommendation. So so SAT’s as had major knee surgery junior and senior year so never took a prep class. He ended up at another school and had a 4.0 1st semester in engineering school UCONN’s loss. I think his SAT’s were the issue in our case. Everyone will end up where they are supposed to be. He is very happy now and with merit scholarship the OOS school only ends up being about 2K more than instate UCONN was.