<p>For those who applied ED, have you received news on being accepted or deferred to RD?</p>
<p>I'll be interested to see how quickly ED applicants receive notification as my D has applied EA. She submitted her app before the ED deadline of 12/1 and heard back via e-mail within a week from her admissions rep that he had enjoyed reading her essay. Since the EA deadline is tomorrow I would guess she will hear something before New Year's Day. ED applicants should be getting news any time now.</p>
<p>I received my acceptance letter today (applied EA).</p>
<p>Also received financial aid notice as well for merit aid. To be honest, I am quite disappointed. Disappointed enough to completely remove OWU from my list. Good luck to everyone else!</p>
<p>-Nathan</p>
<p>D received her admission with a generous merit aid package. Not sure how we can turn it down, although she is still waiting to hear from Oberlin and Kenyon.</p>
<p>Mallomar -- Where do you live? My D has also applied EA to OWU and RD to Kenyon.</p>
<p>hudsonvalley, we live in Columbus. Although we visited schools to the west (indiana) and schools in NY, PA, VA and NC, the ones my d liked the most were in Ohio. I guess the next step is to do an overnight. I can tell you right now life will be difficult if she gets decent offers from her RD schools.</p>
<p>Has your d received her OWU EA letter yet?</p>
<p>Mallomar -- No mail yet. Since both you and nathanmc are in Ohio I would guess Monday is the earliest we'll hear anything here in NY. My D is both a legacy and high achieiving student so we would expect an acceptance, but have no idea what sort of financial aid package she might be offered. </p>
<p>Congratulations on your daughter's merit award.</p>
<p>Hi Mallomar and hudsonvalley51. S applied ED but we haven't heard back yet -big Brooklyn public HS was not on top of its game about sending transcripts by 12/1. Very disappointing. Admissions staff at OWU were impressively patient and understanding, and they finally have everything they need. S is a legacy, a good student and an athlete. I'll let you know.</p>
<p>Good luck with everything!</p>
<p>D received her acceptance (Early Action) to OWU this morning. VERY generous merit award and possibility of additional, non-loan aid. This is an extremely tempting offer (particularly for the parents), but D wants to keep all options open until she hears from her RD schools in the Spring. Nonetheless, a very nice Christmas Eve present.</p>
<p>Brooklyn, I hope you hear from OWU soon with good news.</p>
<p>Congratulations to all of you! For anyone who has received a "diversity scholarship", did they state the gpa required to keep the award? What is that gpa, if you know? Thanks for the info.</p>
<p>Thanks Northeastmom. My D's heritage is a mishmash of European nationalities so she wasn't in the running for a diversity scholarship. My wife is interested in the answer to your question also, since several of her AP students who are looking at LAC options for 2009 might qualify.</p>
<p>The question about the GPA is a very good question. As a student, I know quite a few people at OWU lost their scholarships due to their inability to keep up their GPA at the 3.5 level after the second year. Some managed to retain them after petitioning but several had to leave. If your S or D will be studying a natural science or mathematics, I'd be particularly concerned.</p>
<p>Peter, LOL. I would am not a gambler. I would never send my son to a school if I were counting on him keeping his award and the gpa to keep it were a 3.5. A gpa set that high says lure to me, unless the student stats from high school were so high (in other words someone truly exceptional), that I were sure it would be kept. If the average gpa is a 2.8 at a university, you can just bet that a fair number of scholarships where gpa is set at 3.5 is lost. One can say that those who were awarded a scholarship were at the "top" academically, but this is not necessarily the case. Also, if the average gpa at a school is a 2.8, I might guess that the gpa for end of year freshmen is lower than that (fair number of freshmen go on academic probation, digging a hole for themselves before they buckle down).</p>
<p>I am particularly interested in gpa to keep a scholarship because OWU meets about 85% of financial need on average. This is an expensive school, and with a 15% gap, that is a high dollar amount to come up with if there is no scholarship.</p>
<p>All valid points. Where do you get the 2.8 number from? I've never seen an average GPA for OWU, but judging from friends and the popular opinion, I'd think it is low...for some reason I thought it was slightly higher than 2.8. Also, I think the high number of freshmen who go on academic probation was something that was related to OWU's high acceptance rate in the early 2000s...I know the administration has been trying very aggressively to lower the admission rate to approximately 50% for RD (from last year)...mostly trying harder really to accept students who will be prepared for OWU's curriculum. Accepting more students (even if you don't provide merit aid to them), some of whom don't deserve to be there, and many of whom will later go on academic probation was just causing severe retention problems for the school.</p>
<p>Peter, I was speaking in general, not specifically about OWU. I used a 2.8 because this is the average gpa at the public U my son attends. A schoolwide 2.8 means more than likely the average gpa for freshmen is even lower. The problem of a certain percentage of freshmen on academic probation is generally a universal problem. It is not a problem that is unique to OWU. I suppose the more support systems in place for freshmen, the better the grades and the higher the retention rate. Even if one accepts only students who admissions believes is prepared for OWU, there is the element of adjusting to college life (homesickness, intolerable roommate, too much play/party time because of new found freedom away from parents, unknown as to how one seeks help, intimidation experienced by freshmen getting their first poor grade and meeting eye to eye with that professor, not pacing their studying, and so on) that can cause a student to have a low gpa and lose their merit scholarship.</p>
<p>For anyone who has received a "diversity scholarship", did they state the gpa required to keep the award? What is that gpa, if you know? Thanks for the info.</p>
<p>I suppose you are right. On the other hand, I am guessing that if someone does a study on the effect of high acceptance rate on retention and number of students experiencing academic problems, he would find a positive effect (after controlling for everything else). In any case, OWU seems to be doing something right because they have lowered the admission rate more than it has gone down on average for its peer schools in GLCA and at the same time reports much high first year retention rate than 5 years ago. </p>
<p>Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays!</p>
<p>Peter, Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays to you too!</p>
<p>Congratulations to all about the EA and scholarships. On my d's letter it says that if she does not keep the 3.5, the scholarship will go to about half the amount. ( Still that is pretty generous.) I have it on good authority that a well written letter goes far in getting the original scholarship back.</p>
<p>Happy Holidays to all.</p>
<p>mallomar, thank you for posting, and congratulations to your daughter! Happy Holidays to you and your family too!</p>