If you go to “application deadlines” on the website-it says in several places “Richmond Scholars; multiple stages of consideration last through mid-March”…
Copied from the site under “deadlines and notifications”
Richmond Scholars deadline (all applications received by December 1 will be considered automatically for Richmond Scholars; multiple stages of consideration last through mid-March).
Regular decision applicants can be considered also-so it appears they are not finished with finalists. I assume the “congratulations” tab is from last year.
Good luck to all!!
I’m not sure that’s true. They might have already told the RD Richmond Scholar candidates that they are finalists (which of course also means they were accepted). That’s how big scholarships work at other schools.
That’s why even RD candidates have to apply by 12/1
Daughter was accepted with no merit aid, which was surprising. Unless something changes between now and May 1, Richmond is out of reach for us financially and off our list. Richmond seems like a wonderful school, but she has merit offers from 2 other schools so far and going into debt for undergrad is not an option (plans on med or vet school post undergrad). Good luck to all!
Rigorous HS; all honors classes and a few APs (school limits # of APs; does not do class rank)
GPA 3.7
ACT 35
Fall 2020 1st Qtr transcript showed some of her highest grades ever
Community Service Award (475 hrs of community service)
Currently doing scientific research with scientist at national museum
Several competitive internships related to ecology/science/environment
Strong essays (although everyone thinks their essays are strong!)
Demonstrated interest in the usual ways (could not visit the campus in person though); contacted 2 recent alum to ask about Richmond’s premed program
Even for Richmond Scholar consideration? I think that Feb 1 deadline is just to be considered for admission. The deadline has passed for the Scholar option. Boston College, Vanderbilt and many others also do this. If you want to be considered for the competitive scholarship then, even if you are applying RD, you have to apply by an earlier deadline.
If you are hoping to be a finalist, that window has closed. They are “still considering” because they have finalists and not winners. They’ve chosen the finalists and now they will either do virtual interviews or a deeper dive into their finalist list somehow to choose the winners.
DD accepted with Presidential Scholarship
She is a theatre student intending to double major in theatre and public health.
3.98 uw/ 5.09 w
34 ACT
4 APs (but her performing arts boarding school does not permit them to overload APs because they take more classes than normal high schoolers - 5 on exams, but I don’t think she gave scores for those yet - all other classes are Honors)
Top 4% of class (which she lists on her resume, but her school does not actually publish rank - her counselor was able to let her know for her resume)
Junior Marshal
National History Day State Winner
National Honors Society
National Hispanic Scholarship Fund Youth Leadership Participant
President’s List
300 community service hours
Very involved since an early age in local and regional theatre and film community at the professional level, earning several performance awards
Spent summer of Jr year studying at a university in medellin colombia
As @laritalara mentioned about her DD- my DD’s common app essay and supplement were both very strong and unique to her … She is also Latina and very accomplished in her art area as well as academics.
Unfortunately even with the Presidential Scholarship, Richmond may not be affordable for us. We are waiting to see if any financial aid plays in.
My D also had high stats although was TO. GPA 6 W 4 UW. #1/531 ranking. AP’S 10 all others honors. Accepted but no merit money. I thinks its all down to luck?
Has all acceptances so far and money from other colleges.
First of all, Richmond only gives merit to 10% of its accepted students. Many other schools give merit to a MUCH larger percentage. D has received merit from Denver, SCU and Furman but they give something like 40-50% of their accepted students merit. So a student who gets merit at one school, won’t necessarily get merit elsewhere. Plus, from the very small sample size here - students seem to be highly sought after, bright URMs.
She had some ill health at the beginning of Junior year and sat her SAT unwell, she scored high but not what she wanted. She was going to resit it in the spring but obviously that didn’t happen. It was a chance to send or not send in this case.
I didn’t mean to ask if they made a mistake! I meant he could talk about how Richmond is top choice and why, his family finances and need to take merit into account, and that he’s wondering if any more merit decisions will be made. Maybe then they look at his file, and maybe there really was a mistake.
Or, maybe his CG reaches out to the AO. That probably works better.
Yes, of course we wouldn’t have phrased it that way. S did consider possibly contacting his AO to do just what you suggest after the FA comes in, if it doesn’t get us to where we need to be cost wise.
But now it seems there are many very well qualified applicants who weren’t offered any merit, not to mention many very high stats kids who were deferred. As was mentioned above, maybe the Presidential helps to increase diversity? I certainly feel for the kids who got passed over, but in a way, it helps to know there are many in the same boat; at least now we don’t feel like something glaring was off on his app.
S did consider possibly contacting his AO to do just what you suggest after the FA comes in, if it doesn’t get us to where we need to be cost wise.