<p>I would be interested to hear how hard of a “sell” Grinnell puts on the people who attend the March 3-4 overnight. I would guess that their goal is to get people to commit, before the students have heard from other schools AND before Grinnell has to answer its remaining regular decision applicants.</p>
<p>just got accepted for regular admission too! (roughly 3.8 gpa 2100 SAT, exchange student and home schooled part time) I’m going to the event in March. Any one have any suggestions on which class would be good to sit in on? I’m interested in majoring in linguists and I’m also interested in the middle east (Can’t remember if Grinnell has a MES program, but I know they have Arabic)</p>
<p>S got the package the other day. Invitation and $18k scholarship. I hope that preliminary full costs is $54k, $18k is a dent and still way out of our range. S had a 34 super scored ACT weight GPA of 4.6. So I thought $18k might be highest but wow $24k, that still sort of a dent but really nice! Grats to all. We got the invite debating on costs. S is only 17 so I think an adult has to go with him and it would get pretty pricey. But I hear the scholarship and aid is preliminary pending irs too lookup. So we’ll sit tight for now. We also got a traveling assistance from Pitt.</p>
<p>Just got my package yesterday. 21k trustee honors scholarship, plus an extra 2k/year for National Merit Finalist. Do all of the early admits get the honors scholarship?</p>
<p>My stats are a 94 GPA (uw, out of 100, 96 w - my school doesn’t weight very much, even for AP classes). 2 APs, plus 2 more this year. Multiple college-level classes. SATs: 800 M, 800 CR (which I think is what got me in with such a big scholarship.) Good essays, lots of extracurriculars.</p>
<p>So new question anyone considering going to admitted students weekend March 3-4th? How will you be transporting between the airport and college. I just got a quote from the Cedar Rapids shuttle, its $106 for 1 person and $10 for each additional.</p>
<p>IIRC, on the registration page for the admitted students event, they mention a shuttle that will be transporting people between the college and Des Moines airport. Times for the shuttle are 2:30 and 4:30, I think.</p>
<p>My son took Arabic for 2 years at Grinnell. Everyone loves that prof! She sounds amazing. Then he studied in Morocco. Being fluent in French helped him with that.</p>
<p>Just registered</p>
<p>Just registered! I’m excited! I’m doing an overnight Sunday!</p>
<p>I registered and booked plane tickets last night. :)</p>
<p>I registered too! I’ll have to miss the first dress rehearsal for my school’s musical, but I’m only on crew, so I’m replaceable.</p>
<p>Did any internationals get this invitation?</p>
<p>If you all do not mind sharing, I was wondering which other schools did those who got an early write apply to? Thanks.</p>
<p>I applied to twelve schools total: Brown, Yale, Dartmouth, Cornell, Williams, McGill, Middlebury, Bowdoin, Rice, Wash U in St. Louis, Northeastern, and, of course, Grinnell.</p>
<p>Essentially, my list consists of eleven reaches and one bonafide safety. I have no schools I would consider to be “matches”, which is why I was so surprised to get an early acceptance. So far, Grinnell is the only college I’ve heard back from.</p>
<p>Thanks. But, I am curious. Given that list your stats must be excellent to some major degree. I agree after a certain level all schools become reaches, but to hear from Grinnell as an early write they are trying to get in front of what they expect to be more positive news coming, I would think. I am assuming your SAT scores and GPA are in range of the other top schools - am I correct? Or do you have a specific hook? Congrats big time in any case. Such an early write from a school from Grinnell is heady stuff!</p>
<p>@ Opaline - Sorry, my error. I meant to admission letter not early write. That is even a better message! I got my answer about your stats - saw it on the Brown forum. I do think you will get more good news from other colleges!</p>
<p>I originally only applied to Swarthmore College ED, Univ of Chicago EA, and UW Madison.</p>
<p>I was accepted to Madison and Swarthmore and deferred at UChicago. However, Swarthmore didn’t work out financially (I found this out after most school’s RD deadlines) so I applied to my favorite schools with a 1/15 deadline: Grinnell, Carleton, Kenyon, and Case Western.</p>
<p>I applied to 12, 10 reach-y matches and 2 safeties: Grinnell, Swarthmore, Carleton, Middlebury, Williams, Hamilton, Vassar, Reed, Pomona, Macalester, Hampshire, and SUNY Binghamton. I’ve only been accepted at the two safeties (Bing and Hampshire) and Grinnell so far.</p>
<p>@falconflyer</p>
<p>Thank you for the encouragement! I don’t think I have the stats for many of my reach schools, but I suppose we’ll find out in April. For now I’m just very excited about Grinnell!</p>
<p>@opaline - Have faith. Grinnell did not send that to you because they thought you would have limited options. They saw your record and knew others would be coming in to join them with good news, so they jumped in early!</p>
<p>@isaiahstock - Good luck on the other schools. If you got into Swarthmore ED, you should do just fine.</p>