Early Action Class of 2021

Accepted! International student with 3.9 GPA (GCE A levels) and 1460 SAT. Congratulations and good luck everyone!

Accepted!! With 28 ACT! Congratulations everyone and best of luck!

Accepted with a 30 ACT and 3.93 UW/5.2 W GPA! And received the John Dickinson scholarship!!

Accepted with 31 ACT. Not sure about gpa but it wasn’t too high. 13 more decisions to go…

My son got in. Heard yesterday. 20K/yr scholarship and some loan.

Do you know if Dickinson will give a higher merit award if asked and if they really want you to attend? I received the John Montgomery scholarship but really need more merit aid. I don’t qualify for financial aid.

You can always ask, but I have not heard of them increasing merit awards.

I was actually surprised that my daughter didn’t get a penny of merit money from Dickinson. It’s a moot point because she will not be attending there, but she has gotten pretty generous merit aid from all the other schools that have accepted her, including her top choice school, to which she applied ED2 and was not, in my opinion, an applicant who would have stood out above other applicants and been so deserving of merit money. (just an aside, she has withdrawn her applications from the other schools as she is supposed to, It’s just that a few schools sent out acceptances either before or at the same time as her ED2 acceptance.)

Am I misunderstanding how this works? Isn’t merit aid awarded based on academic achievement in comparison to the “average” accepted applicant? She was offered merit scholarships ranging from $14,000-$27,000 from other schools. If she hadn’t applied ED anywhere, or if she had been rejected from the ED school, I think she would have wound up choosing another school over Dickinson for this reason, which would have been a shame because she really liked it there.

I looked on your other posts. Her old SAT was 1930, is that right? That isn’t particularly high. Unless she knocked the socks off an interview or had a great EC, I guess I’m not too surprised.

@intparent Her SAT was only one part of her application, and it didn’t stop her from getting merit aid anywhere else, including schools that require the SAT and, according to the CDS, have higher SAT standards. That’s why I was surprised. She did have a fantastic interview and her transcript is excellent.

Who knows.