<p>DS was deferred from CUA also. ACT 31, student council, volunteer hours, sporty and holds down a job. Recommended by parish priest and attends Catholic HS. Very frustrating!
Accepted to Loyola DC, Fordham and Providence College. Will spend some time over Christmas break deciding next moves.</p>
<p>After going through college admissions with my two oldest, I have given up on trying to understand the rhyme or reason. Both were accepted with merit money at seemingly more competitive schools, and rejected by seemingly less competitive schools.</p>
<p>Irishmam, deferred at CUA and accepted EA at Fordham? Now that is crazy…my only guess is they (CUA) assume your child is using them a safety,and likley won’t attend anyway…</p>
<p>D received her deferral letter. As stated before, 3.9 UW GPA, 33 ACT, good ECs, captain of a sport, lifeguard and swim instructor, pastor and alumni recs, etc. She isn’t quite sure what her next move is either. After visiting schools this summer CUA was one of her top 3 choices, but she is now feeling a little discouraged. I guess she needs to sort it all out. She does have EA acceptances to WPI and Drexel so she has some other choices.</p>
<p>And so it continues…sorry to hear of more deferrals. It’s too bad CU doesn’t realize that if some of these top kids were accepted EA, with merit $$, they may very well have considered CU one of their top, if not the top, choice.</p>
<p>DS would have considered CU one of his top choices as well. Now, I’m not so sure, with this apparent “snub”. Happy about Fordham though, as we considered that more of a reach.</p>
<p>The only good thing was that after reading about the other high stat deferrals from CUA here on CC she was mentally prepared when the letter came! I think she would have been quite upset otherwise and very confused as to the reason.</p>
<p>My child went to a Catholic HS, had the parish scholar form sent in, visited CUA, and was front and center talking about his interest in the school when the Admission Rep came to visit his school. His quest was for the honors program/ merit aid … he was deferred. His school’s guidance department and school priests are up in arms about it… they don’t understand. </p>
<p>In this economy I think it is completely unfair to think that it is a safety school for these kids. I used to think it is a top choice if they were to get in the honors program/merit $… now I am not so sure. This whole thing doesn’t seem very ethical/ honorable on Catholic’s part; discriminating (not giving them the same shot as someone with a lower SAT) against them just because they have high Sat’s ??? Make them take extra steps that others don’t have to take? It feels deceitful and very un-catholic.</p>
<p>From my viewpoint, Catholic HS students fair significanly better with Catholic type Universities…i can personally verify many instances of this</p>
<p>If she went through the trouble of getting sponsored by her parish (separate scholarship form), then I would think that would count as sufficient interest. Her stats should have landed her an invitation to the honors program and a good scholarship. That’s what happened for me last year, though I ultimately went elsewhere.</p>
<p>I experienced this with another school typically considered a “backup” for the one I now attend, being deferred and waitlisted, despite higher stats and acceptances to more difficult schools. I gave them the benefit of the doubt and figured I just wasn’t right for them. Of course, CUA may just be sick of letting in tons of top students and getting very few to attend. They only give like five full scholarships a year, if memory serves, and I got better scholarships from more selective Catholic schools. I suspect this was the case for many people, so the admissions people may have decided to stop accepting people with very low chances of actually enrolling.</p>
<p>Expressing interest is probably the best way for your daughter to fix this. Of course, if a lot of top applicant now do express interest, get in, then refuse them, I suspect that they’ll be even more suspicious next year. It’s unfortunate when schools do this to people who actually would attend.</p>