Not sure what happened last year, but two years ago when my D17 was notified of admission in early October, she received a notice of Honors on her Tracker in later October and shortly thereafter received a letter in the regular mail. She also received scholarships and those arrived in November by regular mail only. I don’t think they have ever been included in the admissions packet in the time I’ve been following the UMN threads on CC.
@putinator I did not!
Just got in to college of design!
Stats:
California public school senior
GPA: 4.12
Rank: 110 of 364
14 AP classes: Art history, chemistry, physics, microecon, macroecon, US history, European history, computer science A, computer science principles, Calc AB, statistics, eng lit, eng lang, government
ACT: 31
ECs: Robotics (officer), GSA (officer), engineering club (officer), art club (officer), some internships, FFA
Honors: robotics world champion, national hispanic merit scholar, some random FFA awards
My GPA/class rank was pretty subpar, but I think my ECs got me through.
Here is the updated table for Honors as of Fall 2018. My S19 submitted an SAT score so was especially interested in that range this year, the first year of actual (not concorded) SAT scores. These stats should probably be viewed as an indication of what the strongest applicants submitted last year, rather than a required “threshold” you have to meet in order to be invited to Honors.
@doughdough2135 Congrats to you. You will love it. I would say that your ACT is what stood out to them and all your AP classes.
Consider joining the APX (Alpha Rho Chi) coed professional fraternity. It’s a fun group of design students and it’s very low cost and commitment.
application tracker was updated to say daughter was admitted to the Honors program! : ) She’s College of Science & Engineering, OOS.
Woo hoo! Good luck to all!
^ Good to know that Honors is coming out now.
In reading through this thread (and other earlier ones), it sounds like university academic scholarship notifications will not appear in the tracker, but rather come in the weeks (months) ahead by regular mail? Is that right? Is it also Admissions that makes the determination on these based on the information they already have on the admitted applicants?
@BayAreaParent53 did you get honors notification already?? I’m CBS and still haven’t heard about Honors and my scores, and GPA are well above their chart ranges for last year’s honors. EC’s are also good.
Not yet. But she just got her acceptance notification in the tracker over the weekend and it appears from what others have said that honors notification comes typically several weeks after that
@BayAreaParent53 - Package containing university-wide scholarships would arrive in the regular mail and yes, they base those on the application already submitted - no need to submit anything else. If you are NMSF and submitted the application before finding out, you might want to call/e-mail them to update their information on you. The $10,000 Gold is offered to all those who advance to National Merit Finalist.
There are also college-specific scholarships and each college distributes those according to it’s own criteria. CLA requires/required you to apply. Not sure about other schools and colleges.
All information on university-wide and college scholarships can be found via these links:
https://admissions.tc.umn.edu/costsaid/schol_campus.html
https://admissions.tc.umn.edu/costsaid/schol_college.html#cse
Congrats to all getting info on their tracker already.
Does anyone know how long it takes from self reporting grades to showing up in the tracker? My kid applied via the common app and self reported grades in there so then we were surprised he had to do that on the U of Mn site too and didn’t notice for a while. I think he reported going on a week ago. Is it normal for that to take a while to show up in your tracker?
My kid is applying to CLA and School of Music within that.
@MusakParent It took my daugter’s self report of grades almost 2 weeks to show up in the tracker. This was in late august/ early september.
@MusakParent UMN discusses that issue of how to self-report grades on their admissions FAQ and why they don’t use the CA self-reporting section. They wanted a separate system so that everyone used the same platform regardless of which application they chose. Your son’s common ap. for UMN probably didn’t even include that section in the printout so UMN most likely never saw it.
You can check your your son’s SRAR portal to see if the grades and test scores have uploaded to UMN yet. Did he link to UMN before filling it out? If it says it’s been uploaded but not yet on the Tracker, you should call them to see if they have it. Sometimes it can take several days, especially if there’s a rush of applications coming in.
My son submitted his SRAR report over LD weekend but it had to upload 2x in order to be recognized by UMN - they explained that was due to a glitch in their system. The reason I knew it had to re-upload was that his SRAR portal records it each time.
The SRAR is definitely broken. Each step required “a fix” from their tech team. Two weeks from start to finish. Now just waiting for a decision.
I’m OOS from California and haven’t received my admissions packet yet. Have you guys?
@SwimmingDad - wow. What happened? I know that for my son it was very frustrating because SRAR kept quitting us out before stuff could save (this was in early August), and it seemed very cumbersome to work with overall. And then it didn’t upload properly at first. However, the admission decisions seem to be coming out earlier this year and hopefully will continue that way. I think what’s happening is that Admissions has shifted the burden of transcript entry onto the families - thus saving themselves a bunch of time! (and trying our patience . . . ). I suspect that for large universities, systems like SRAR or the CA self-report page(s) are going to be the norm going forward.
Admission packets tend to arrive between one and two weeks from Tracker notification. Admission packets do not include any scholarship or honors notification; in fact they don’t seem to include any information you can’t already find on the website.
@SwimmingDad So do we need to make a call or an e-mail about the SRAR? Still not seeing it in the UofMN tracker here. Have submitted it in SRAR.
Not super impressed so far. My kid couldn’t originally get into his tracker either. That glitched and he e-mailed the help desk with no response. 48 hours later we were able to hack into it by saying we forgot the user name (it was never received). It took at least a couple hours to enter everything into the SRAR. I’d prefer if they just didn’t pretend to use the common app if they can’t transfer info that is already there. And he did enter all his class info there too.
Admissions has sent us multiple e-mails telling us kid’s app is incomplete when it’s all there, it just hasn’t transferred from the SRAR. At a minimum, if that piece is going to take a while, have your e-mail system pipe down a bit. It’s really unclear that it’s ever going to be transmitted from where we are sitting.
I am U of MN CSE alum and you’d think they could get a few techies in their admissions office to figure this stuff out.
@putinator I’m also from California, and I haven’t gotten mine yet. I’ve heard 1-2 weeks is standard