<p>1st post! (Be kind!)</p>
<p>I applied ED to Oberlin, and have been anxious/terrified since so I'm hoping someone has an answer to my question. The notification date for EDI is December 15th, and I emailed the officer who will be reading my app in November asking how I could send my first semester grades for consideration. (They are the best I've ever gotten and could help my application significantly.)</p>
<p>He replied that he will ask my school directly if he needs them. According to my guidance counselor, as of today no one has requested my grades. Should I take this as positive/negative/neutral? Any ideas?</p>
<p>Statistically, I'm about average for an Oberlin applicant--GPA slightly below accepted average from my school but SAT scores significantly above.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!
Shane O'Halloran</p>
<p>Shane,</p>
<p>It is my impression that Oberlin makes decisions based on a lot more than the raw numbers. You need decent stats to avoid the immediate discard pile. Once you make that cut, an extra tenth or so on the GPA will not make a lot of difference compared with how they like your package as a whole. However, if it turns out you are right on the edge competing for one of the last few ED slots, then every little bit helps. </p>
<p>Most schools tend to do the obvious cases first and agonize over the hard choices toward the end of the process. If they have already decided about you, then your recent grades likely would not have made a difference. If your case is still under consideration, they still have time to ask for them.</p>
<p>If you are really losing sleep over this, then how amenable would your GC be to simply faxing your grades over to the admission office, even though Oberlin did not yet request them? If you do that, it is likely that the secretary in the admissions office will slip it into your folder, no questions asked.</p>
<p>BassDad,</p>
<p>Thank you very much for your input. I didn't mean to imply by including references to GPA and SAT scores that I was relying on them as sole indicators of admissibility--I only wanted to provide some general context for the question.</p>
<p>Hopefully, my guidance counselor would be happy to send that fax. As you said, every little bit can count!</p>
<p>Thanks,
Shane</p>