Anybody get admitted to Minnesota-Twin Cities for Fall 2017 yet? If so, can you share stats, and when you applied?
My daughter applied on 10/22/2016 and has not heard anything.
Applied 9/11/16, accepted mid-October.
4.029 w GPA
32 ACT
1420 SAT (on the new scale)
6 AP classes throughout high school
Student Council, NHS, many other ECs
Class rank: 7/about 100
I’d give it a few more days. Hope you make it in 
Congrats to you! She has a 27 ACT, 3.99 gpa UW, Lots of EC’s. She applied to CBS and CFANS.
applied mid september-ish, got accepted mid-Octoberish, just got accepted into the Honors program 3 days ago.
ACT: 36 composite, 27 essay 
SAT (new): 1540 (770 for both sections)
GPA: 4.53 W, 4.00 UW
Class rank 1/340 (UW), 4/340 (W)
EC’s: NHS, NEHS (English honors society), Tri-M (music honors society), violin, piano, first chair school orchestra
Congrats! How do you know if you’re accepted into honors?
Application tracker will update to include a paragraph about Honors. Here are the stats by college. Like the Pirate’s Code, these are more what you call “guidelines” than actual rules:
I applied middle of septemeber and was admitted on October 16.
Act 30
GPA 3.65
WISCO resident
Poli sci major
4 years varsity softball
3 years varsity basketball
NHS
Key club
100+ hours of community service
Applied in October and was admitted recently
GPA (weighted): 4.22
New SAT: 1330 (760 math, 570 english)
MA resident
NHS president
Class Treasurer
Many community service hours
Rank 52/186 (most competitive class in our school, chose not to include rank in application)
I applied on September 29 but my application wasn’t “complete” until October 31 (transcripts, etc.)
GPA (unweighted): 3.95
ACT: 33
Senior Classes: IB History HL, IB English HL, IB Spanish SL, IB Math HL, IB Bio HL, IB Chem SL
ECs: track, xc, tutoring, mission trips, conducted research at local university, piano, student council, jazz band, etc.
WI resident
Lots of community service because of IB!
U of M sends their acceptances us out in waves, so don’t worry! I got my acceptance early November (I think), and my friend just got hers yesterday. The acceptance comes in a big white/maroon/golden envelope - they don’t email you about your results. Good luck
Also, check your online application tracker daily, especially this time of year. The Tracker will update several days before your acceptance package arrives.
D received her scholarship letter today: $10K/year National Scholarship. Stats: OOS/34/4.0U/4.5W. It’s nice, but I miss those in-state tuition waivers I use to read about. This National Scholarship would mean COA of about $27K in Year 1, and around $37K in Year 4 with the proposed tuition increases I’ve read about.
@showmetheMAC, that was because the tuition differential used to be no higher than $10,000 over the in-state number. At $21,000, the OOS tuition was too good to last, especially given the admit rates of the more selective colleges.
Totally get it @JBStillFlying. Again, just mourning the elimination of tuition waivers (at least that was my, perhaps misinformed, understanding.) The tuition differential will likely be approaching $15K by Year 4 if they move forward with the plan to be in the mid-range of the Big 10 in the near-ish future.
The tuition hikes were not welcome news to many on the CC forum and there were some concerns conveyed to the media that came from within the university. However, the Regents seem to be going forward as planned, given the lack of impact on overall enrollments.
http://www.twincities.com/2016/09/08/umns-non-resident-tuition-hike-pays-off/
@showmetheMAC My son also received the same National Scholarship from Minnesota. I am also aware of the proposed non-resident tuition increases that could negate as much as half of the total scholarship offer over 4 years.
It seems petty for me to complain, since it’s such a generous award and it’s still a very good value. On the other hand, it may no longer be a better value for us (including scholarship) than in-state engineering tuition at at Illinois, for example. Tuition at UIUC was kept the same over the last 2 years for residents. Notwithstanding a huge increase next year, Illinois actually provides less uncertainty, since tuition cannot increased for a student over their 4 years by state law. I’d have thought nearby state flagships would be doing more to poach out-of-state students from Illinois, given the state budget crisis here.
For non-residents considering Minnesota, also consider a couple other things. First, this year, new freshman tuition only went up 7.5%, rather than the 10-15% originally expected. Also, for returning non-resident students, tuition only increased 5.5%. If that trend continues, the impact over 4 years isn’t nearly as large. Finally, consider that room & board and other expense increases will likely be lower as well. For example, R&B increased 3.6% for 2016-2017. So, the total cost of attendance might only average about a 5% increase each year for admitted students, based on what happened this year. Still high, but much better than 10% or 15%!
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/06/10/university-minnesota-increases-tuition
They did soften the blow for students who were current at the time that the tuition increases were announced. However, keep in mind that the class of 2021 is entering a year after the hikes were finalized as policy and 18 months after originally announced. Probably wise not to expect any cushion as long as hikes aren’t cutting into their revenues. However, they will tweak and adjust every year as appropriate, as they did this year.
@Illinoisx3 I think that UMN was poaching for awhile at least - especially the engineering students due to the surcharge at UIUC for that program. A poster from IL last year commented that it was cheaper for his twins to attend UMN engineering with the Gold National (which they got) than to attend UIUC! I’m sure that a lot of kids also go across the border to IA. The two closest flagships in terms of quality are UWisc. and UMich - not sure about the latter (their OOS tuition rivals some private schools); however, UWisc. just approved lifting the restriction on OOS students so perhaps there will be some opportunities for poaching some IL kids down the road. Of course UWisc. is also having some budget issues and they have a pretty big reciprocity program with MN which doesn’t seem to be going away (thankfully - for us!). It’ll be interesting to see whether they start offering more OOS merit scholarships. Have heard some rumblings that this might be the case but don’t know the details.
Accepted to College of Biological Sciences mid-October. OOS and also received the same 10k/40k scholarship yesterday.
@JBStillFlying - Right- Even if they raise out-of-state tuition for new incoming students as much as 10% a year for the next few years, the tuition-only increase for returning students would be no more than maybe 6% based on what they did this year. The annual average increase for total cost of attendance would 5% or so for my purposes. That isn’t as hard for me to swallow.
We just ran detailed costs again vs. UIUC, and while UMN is no longer the clear bargain, it may still be a little less expensive over 4 years with the scholarship, depending on housing choices and such. There’s always a tiny chance of a small merit award at UIUC, but Wisconsin would be more. I have also read that they may be increasing non-resident merit aid so that might move it from marginally affordable to affordable if he does apply there. He may also apply to Michigan, along with a few private universities that offer merit aid. I think he has ruled out the other nearby regional state flagships, notably Michigan State and Indiana for physics.
@illinoisx3 just be careful not to extrapolate from this year’s returning student pool. Those particular students were all in place prior to the announcement so they will be treated differently than future returning students (i.e. those who started Fall 2016 and beyond). Unless there is a specific policy contradicting such, I’d still bank on tuition increases that get them to the mid 30’s or so within 3-4 years time. I’d probably use hard numbers rather than % increases. For instance, if they are at $23,000 for the 2016-17 year, and they want to be at about $35,000 sometime in the next four years, that’s going to be an increase of at least $3,000 per year beginning next fall. That will impact the class of 2021 significantly.
Here is one of the original articles on the topic. Even if they don’t reach this goal it’s safe to assume they will be hiking tuition until their enrollment numbers are negatively impacted.
http://www.twincities.com/2016/02/12/umn-tuition-target-12800-nonresident-hike-over-four-years/