<p>Has anyone heard from Rhodes regarding EA decisions or when applicants will receive the decision?</p>
<p>EA letters were mailed Friday.</p>
<p>Thank you !!! Hopefully tomorrow we will find out.</p>
<p>My friend’s daughter applied Early Decision before Christmas but I guess that’s different. She has committed to attending Rhodes.</p>
<p>Accepted to Rhodes College yesterday!!! Soooo excited</p>
<p>@Eagerstudent…from what part of the country are you from? I haven’t received any decision from Rhodes.</p>
<p>I live in Tennessee not that far from Memphis. I bet most everyone will get the “big envelope” by Monday or Tuesday. Good luck to all!!!</p>
<p>My S received his acceptance to Rhodes College today! We are so happy. We live on Long Island and simply loved the school. Very beautiful campus, great spirit, and excellent academics! Congrats to all!</p>
<p>My S received his acceptance to Rhodes College today! We are so happy. We live on Long Island and simply loved the school. Very beautiful campus, great spirit, and excellent academics! Congrats to all!</p>
<p>Hi All.</p>
<p>Anxiously awaiting decision in Philly area.</p>
<p>If you don’t mind, please list your stats.</p>
<p>Does the accept letters include any merit info?</p>
<p>The letter says that merit/financial aid awards will be coming in early February.
General stats: 4.45 weighted GPA, ranked top 5% in high school class, ACT is 29, lots of EC’s and 2 varsity sports. Hope I get some merit aid because really want to go to Rhodes!</p>
<p>^Based on a recent conversation with an admissions officer who gave some broad information about the levels of merit aid offered by Rhodes, you sound like a good candidate for merit aid. </p>
<p>Unlike many other schools, the net price calculator on the Rhodes website is relatively accurate for both need-based and merit aid. Get to the calculator using the link in the financial aid section of the admissions page. </p>
<p>If you input painfully accurate information, it provides a relatively realistic estimate of both need-based aid and grant money you are likely to be offered. Don’t overestimate your GPA (or anything else) or you will end up with inaccurate results. Use your unweighted GPA on a 4.0 scale in core academic courses only, not your weighted GPA and not including grades for courses like PE, music, art or electives.</p>
<p>My D received acceptance letter today in California!
Big Envelope
Stats are SAT 2110
SAT 2 US History - 710
Literature - 700
5 AP’s
GPA UW 4.0 / W 4.33</p>
<p>Tons of Community Service
Lots of EC’s</p>
<p>Says the financial aid and competitive scholarships will be mailed
separately.</p>
<p>I received my acceptance today was well. (California)</p>
<p>STATS:</p>
<p>SAT: 1740
GPA: 3.7
3 APS
All-American Cheerleader, Varsity Captain
Theatre Productions
Lots of leadership
Hook: REALLY good essay and personal story/over 1000 hours of community service</p>
<p>Congratulations everyone!</p>
<p>My S had a 3.5 Weighted average with a rigorous course schedule particularly in sciences. ( his electives brought down his average… Go figure?)
ACT --30
SAT2 Bio as a freshman 650
Chemistry 630
Great ECs, one varsity sport, and worked at the same job since 9th grade during summers and school year.</p>
<p>Thanks niceday!!</p>
<p>I was accepted today and received a call about scholarship information! I’m so excited, I really love Rhodes :)</p>
<p>Congrats to all!</p>
<p>@niceday - The NPC doesn’t show merit, just need-based aid from what we ran. Even if we tweaked the GPA/standardized test scores up, no merit aid was shown.</p>
<p>@Nouve - You give me hope. My DS is in the same situation that he took more academic electives (he actually took AP courses as electives) and his unweighted GPA is lower as a result. His school also has harsh grading, but does not send scattergrams or anything to indicate that B+/A- is the highest ever given. He received a B in a class, but got a 5 on the AP.</p>
<p>DS wasn’t able to visit and I fear he didn’t show enough love. Hopefully he’ll get a letter today.</p>
<p>Longhaul, here is a way to clearly see merit aid. Note that you won’t see it in a separate line item labeled merit aid; it’s included in the Rhodes Financial Aid line. The way we were able to clarify what portion of the estimated package would be merit aid was by tweaking financial disclosure rather than tweaking GPA/stats/ECs. Run the net price calculator and input exact GPA and stats and activities, but for all the income/asset entries enter a high level where clearly no need based aid would be offered. The resulting amount shown under the heading “Estimated Total Grant/Gift Aid” is the amount of estimated Rhodes scholarship grant money.</p>
<p>Also, I am fairly sure that APs and other academic courses would be considered as part of the core GPA, even if the HS counts them as electives. The disregarded grades are those like PE, band, etc.</p>