Our daughter didn’t even apply for honors college; yet they awarded her scholarship
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Daughter awarded scholarship but didn’t even apply for honors college
Are you sure this is the Presidential Scholarship and not the freshman scholarship? The honors college app is the Presidential app AFAIK. The website also indicates that there will be Presidential interviews in March 2021.
if my grades went up my senior year (all A’s) and I have been awarded seminole pathways, could I appeal this and request for a summer admission?
FYI: FSU website it says they had 62,574 applications. I found out from admissions that yesterday they released around 40,000 decisions and accepted about 20,000. This means remaining applications were submitted after the deadline or were incomplete.
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Maybe most of those are late applications? It’s hard to believe there are such a large number of incomplete apps.
Wow…even if it is half & half, that is a lot of apps that likely weren’t able to get test scores.
All those incomplete apps and their GPA/SAT averages barely shifted from last year.
The average SAT dropped 40 pts at the low end and 10pts at the high end. I think that pretty significant. 1250-1400 instead of 1290-1410.
Update: my son got a reply from admissions regarding my son’s OOS waiver (or lack of). They said even though he met the GPA and ACT requirements, because he got a C (1 C) he is not eligible. Then they said he could submit his Fall grades to see if he “meets the requirements”. Not sure how he can make the C go away!!!
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I’m sure a stats person could weigh-in but 10 points isn’t much. The ACT’s concordance range is 30 points on SAT for 1 point on the ACT. The 40 point SAT spread would probably be 3 or 4 percentile difference.
And who’s to say the other 20k apps would’ve raised the averages…could’ve lowered them.
My D applied for summer start and was accepted into her major in the Class of '25!
Any info on summer class selection process? How many credit hours is the freshman summer C and what classes are mandatory vs elective?
I wonder if the “C” was in a core class and he took more than 4 core classes it could help? I really don’t know, but I would ask. My D has taken so many science classes that would count as either core or elective…so maybe an A or B in an extra core class could replace the C? Let us know if you find out.
I believe the averages are for students accepted for fall only, not for applications. They exclude summer, spring and pathways to make the numbers higher.
It was in Spanish, and he took way more than 4 core classes when you account for his AP classes.
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That’s probably true but I would hope they use the same methodology from last year. Apples to Apples. Cherry picking this year’s stats for fall numbers only vs all admits from last year wouldn’t be a good choice. I’m sure other schools or US News would pick-up on that pretty quick.
Seems like FSU has a large emphasis on “A and B” in their literature. They list it on that flyer and they list it on the OOS Waiver Scholarship explanation (“have typically earned no grades below B”). But maybe there is some workaround with that word “typically” in some circumstances. Sometimes this wasn’t a student’s fault. 
Good luck!
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Yes for sure its the same! I just don’t know how they count applications that don’t have scores attached if they cant be considered.
Same happened to my daughter who has similar credentials as your son.
What exactly are the requirements for GPA and ACT - and with ACT do they take only composite or superscore as I would imagine my son was close if they superscore and also did not receive the waiver…