<p>We are in PA and my daughter was notified by mail today of her acceptance to the Honors College and being a finalist in the Distinguished Scholar Competition. </p>
<p>For those of you that have been there, what is the weekend like? Any advice?
I think they have 120 students that weekend...what is the format?
Thanks!</p>
<p>I’m an OOS applicant who also got that letter! Anyone here to enlighten us?</p>
<p>I was invited to the Distinguished Scholars Weekend too. I know they say attendance is mandatory, but I’m in kind of a tough situation. I am currently living in Spain as a foreign exchange student. I don’t think I’m allowed to go back to the US for a few days…</p>
<p>I really have no idea what to do</p>
<p>Bumping this for answers! </p>
<p>Btw, I’m also a finalist!</p>
<p>when UD says on their website that a scholaship is for 28k for 4 years Its not clear
what they mean ? </p>
<p>Is that 7k each year for a total of 28K for the 4 years ?</p>
<p>or is it 28k for each of the 4 years? </p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>If you are invited, and you go to the weekend, you will get one of the Distiguished Scholarship awards. They are looking at how you get along with the other kids, how you will fit in at UD. Beyond that they are looking at outstanding students for the Dupont Awards. But all the awards are wonderful, and much more than any other award the university typically gives to students for merit. So it should not be high stress to prepare for the weekend. Go and enjoy! And be yourself.</p>
<p>Regarding the student in Spain, I would call the Admissions office and speak with someone about your situation.</p>
<p>Congratulations to all. My daughter is a DiScho and loves it there.</p>
<p>Do us guys have to wear a suit and tie? I think I read this somewhere, but I’m not certain.</p>
<p>You will get an email and a letter giving you all the information about the weekend. They will also give you advice on what to wear. My son did not wear a suit, but he did wear a shirt and tie one of the days and khakis and a button down the other if I remember correctly. It was a great experience and sold him on the school, which he really did not think he would go to!</p>
<p>My daughter did not apply for the honors program, even though she is 1st in class , has a 4.21 GPA, and scored in the 2000s in SAT because she was told she did not have to apply for honors or be in honors to be considered for the distinguished scholarship. She recieved an acceptance letter but that is all. Does anyone know if all the letters for the scholar weekend have been mailed? Hoping she did not ruin her chances but does not know what to expect in college and wanted to take it slow… any advise welcomed</p>
<p>What did the “acceptance letter” say. Was she informed she would be receiving a scholarship or was she “invited” to apply to the Honors Program? There are a number of different scholarships (some named-i.e. Dupont) that are given to “Distinguished Scholars”. Students who attend the Distinguished Scholar event are apparently matched up with these various scholarships but students can also receive substantial scholarships even if they are not identified as “Distinguished Scholars” depending on their stats. Your D certainly sounds like she would at least would be one of them even if not designated as a “Distinguished Scholar”. From another thread it seems like one student just got the invitation last week so perhaps they are still sending them out. Perhaps they will be sending out additional invitations based upon the responses they get from students they have already invited (Some students may tell UD they definately do not plan to attend UD) and they then may send out additional invitations. I am just guessing on this, however. In any event I am fairly certain your D will be offered substantial merit aid. Best of luck to her.</p>
<p>I agree completely with Mwallenmd^. My son had a 4.0+ GPA, 7AP’s, with 2200 SATs (including 800 math) and was NOT a “distinguished” scholar but still received SUBSTANTIAL merit aid…don’t let the lack of an invite to this particular weekend turn you off of UD :)</p>
<p>Thank you Wisdom and Mwall for your responses, I called admissions this morning and all letters have been mailed. My D did not apply for honors because a U of D rep came to her school and we asked specifically if she had to apply to honors to be considered for full ride scholarship, rep said no, and D little nervous about 1st yr in college so she wants to take reg classes 1st couple semesters to get feel for it. but was told that info is false. Hoping thats not the case, can deal with not receiving because there are alot of bright students applying, will be upset if D wasn’t even considered because of misinformation, she has worked to hard to not of at least been in the race. (so to speak) thank you, i do feel better and hopeful that maybe D will recieve alittle something…God knows we need it…lol</p>
<p>Wisdom, Congrats on your sons acheivement, Did your son apply to honors? if so was he accepted? worried even to get any merrit scholarships you need to of applied for honors. If anyone has recieved merit scholarship without applying to honors would really, really love to hear about it.</p>
<p>There is a relatively common misconception that at UD in order to get merit money you have to be accepted into the Honors Program. While certainly students who are accepted into the Honors Program get merit money this is due to the stats they had which got them accepted into it to begin with. However, you do not have to have had applied to or been accepted into the Honors Program to get merit money which, again, can be substantial, depending on a students Stats. While I am not aware of any students who got full tuition scholarships and were not in the Honors Program I do know of a few OOS students who were not in the Honors Program who received merit aid in the range of 15-20K. I also know of numerous other OOS individuals not in the Honors Program who received merit aid in the range of 5-10K. Obviously there are no guarantees but again, with the stats you presented for your D, I would be very surprised if she did not get some significant merit aid.</p>
<p>Mwallen, thank you for all the information you have given me, it def eases my mind. Makes me and D hopeful, she wants to be a vet and if we can get as much help for the undergraduate yrs, then the 4 to 5 yrs in the vet program we might be able to handle the loans… Again Thank You so much for the information, we will keep our fingers crossed and keep looking in the mail…lol…</p>
<p>My S is going up to UD on Thurs for distinguished scholars weekend. I read on a previous post about the essay and the faculty interview. Does anyone have further details on these?</p>
<p>My D was accepted today with merit $. She did apply to the Honors Program, but nowhere in the acceptance letter does it mention anything about Honors? Should we assume she did not get into the Honors Program?</p>
<p>Rydert - did the letter make reference to merit? Ours did not but we had something called “Grant” which indicated $6500. Our stats were similar to yours and we also did not have anything mentioned about honors so I assume it is not happening.</p>
<p>In the past if an applicant applied to and was accepted into the Honors Program it was so identified in the applicant’s acceptance letter and also would be so noted in the applicant’s portal Congratulatory message. If not in either of these two locations I would assume your D was not accepted into the Honors Program. I’m sorry if this is the case. Not everyone who applies to the Honor Program is accepted into it. It is still certainly nice she got merit money. Your D could still apply for admission into the Honors Program at UD in the future if she remains interested in it. See the Honors Program website for details on how she could do this. Congrats on the acceptance in any event.</p>
<p>@collegemama13 I just reread the letter and it is 7k listed in the Grants & Scholarship section.</p>
<p>@Mwallenmd Thanks for your response.</p>