<p>Now that the congrats letters are flying fast and furious, I am wondering if it is now common place for colleges to accept a child who didn't apply to the school.</p>
<p>Two yrs ago, our DS got acceptance letters from UNCCH, Duke and NYU STerns, even though he never applied. The letter even stated, "Although you did not apply we are offering you admittance". I thought it was strange, but figured since our DS had a full ride scholarship to any college in the US (private or public) that this was the reason.</p>
<p>Yesterday, our DD got one of these letters. I was shocked because she does not have a national scholarship in hand. She had opened a file with this school, but never completed it because she decided against it. That includes not sending a transcript, recs, or SAT scores. Basically, they had her name, and birthdate, but nothing else.</p>
<p>For our DS he had a full ride, so we were never going to pay anyway.</p>
<p>For our DD, it is an IS university, which means we would still pay less than OOS.</p>
<p>Again, for both of them, neither had any intentions matriculating there, so we just laughed at the letter and strained our brain to try to remember if they did apply.</p>
<p>How does one get a full ride scholarship to any US college? Thats pretty sweet. I thought perhaps you were talking ROTC scholarship, but that would be only schools with ROTC programs. Are you talking the new GI bill available to dependents that pays the equivalent of the highest IS tuition? Do tell…</p>
<p>I haven’t heard of that but do know that as of last year, UCR and UCM were both accepting UC eligible kids who had applied but been rejected at other UC campuses. In that situation though the kid’s stats were already in the system.</p>
<p>I was curious about the same thing jym. OP can you explain that?</p>
<p>I guess congratulations are in order though. Clearly your kids are over the top accomplished! :)</p>
<p>My daughter got a rejection letter from one college to which she had never applied. (She had opened up a file and visited, however, and probably they were trying to boost their selectivity stats by counting that as an application.)</p>
<p>A lifetime ago, I got the equivalent of a likely letter from a college to which I had decided not to apply. They had my scores and transcript, and probably my recommendations, too, but I had never done the application. In mid-February, they sent a letter saying, “We would like to admit you. We understand if you don’t want to write any more essays, and that’s fine with us, but we can’t admit you if you don’t fill in the first page of an application, sign it, and pay the application fee.”</p>
<p>It is an AF ROTC. AF ROTC scholarships are different than other branches because it is not tied to the University. For example, our DS at his det has kids traveling 45 mins to an hour to go to ROTC labs. They are not a student at his university.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, Bullet retired before that GI bill, so we are not eligible for the program.</p>
<p>Our DD’s situation, is that it is a state university, but VA does not have a system like NC, NY, PA or CA. There are no satellite universities like UNCW or UNCG. The VA program which I am not 100% familiar with is if you go to a CC for 2 yrs and carry a certain GPA you are accepted into any state university. The majority of our state universities are more like private, most people would not realize they are state, such as JMU.</p>
<p>I just checked our email, and our DD just got another one…congrats Drexel would like the opportunity to offer you a spot in the class of 14. They had always been sending her stuff, and spamming her, we never responded to them. It does say they will waive the processing fee. I wonder if this has something to do with collegeboard, I know it can’t be common apps, since the colleges she applied to are not on common apps.</p>
<p>Forgot to say she received one like you got JHS. Last month UMiami, sent her letter that said although files are closed we would like to offer you a spot as long as you pay the app fee. Another college she didn’t apply to, but this time she actually pondered the opportunity. I told her we would pay, but she needed to tell us that it meant the 2 acceptances she had in hand meant nothing and she would opt for UMiami over them. She said she wouldn’t and I gently reminded her than it was just a waste of my money, and I would rather give her the money than UMiami.</p>
<p>Same here. My D sent her SAT scores and teacher recs to a school that she planned on applying to as a safety. When she got into her top choices in rolling admissions she decided it was pointless to finish the app process for the safety. They sent many reminders for her to fill out the application and she ignored them. About a three weeks ago they send her a letter admitting her to the class of 2014. The joke here is that she got into all of the schools that she appplied to so far…plus one that she didn’t.</p>
<p>Reading this thread makes me realize just how careful that admissions committee must be…not! It was bad enough to get all that direct mail and email, but almost nervy to say “you’re accepted if you just send in the application fee.” Actually I’m jealous.</p>
<p>I would have sent them a letter that said, “I never applied to your school, and you had damned well better not count me as one of your ‘rejected’ applicants for the purpose of boosting your selectivity statistics.” With a copy to U.S. News & World Report. What jerks.</p>
<p>I got accepted to Northwestern though I did not fill out or send in the mid-year grade report (required for admissions decisions according to the instructions).</p>
<p>That’s a slightly different situation, though, since I did fill out everything else LOL at the totally out of left field ones (like Stern…and the rejection! Hah!).</p>
<p>Wow, I’m jealous. I wish my older son (and hope my younger son) will have such problems. Duke, UVA, NYU-those are super selective schools, interesting. I’d love to crack that code–getting into the selective schools without applying!</p>
<p>I wish that’s all it took was paying full price nowadays, because it seems like they have to be 100% perfect plus have built a nuclear reactor in their garage too (though that’s old news anyways).</p>
That’s not quite accurate (you said you are not paying anything for your S to go to college), since this site says that MANY (not all) colleges offer subsidies that can cover room and board. I wonder how many colleges do NOT offer the subsidy that covers room and board? </p>
<p>"16. Does an Air Force ROTC scholarship pay for room and board?</p>
<p>No. Air Force ROTC scholarships do not pay for room and board. However, many colleges and universities offer subsidies to Air Force ROTC students on scholarship that can cover room and board."</p>
<p>It’s not so surprising to me that your S is being offered these acceptances, because your S is a full-pay with guaranteed payment by the US Government. I don’t think it’s quite fair, though, that your S will probably bump someone else on a waitlist if he were to accept one of these offers, particularly since your S wasn’t interested enough to apply in the first place.</p>
<p>The OP said this happened to her S two years. He is already attending college, so won’t be taking anyone’s spot. </p>
<p>It is possible that the OP’s S is not paying to go to college even if his school is not one that subsidizes ROTC scholarships. He could have gotten merit scholarships in addition to the AFROTC scholarship.
I know a current AFROTC student in that situation. Also my own S had the same situation in college only he was NROTC.</p>
<p>You are right, PackMom. Since OP’s son is already in college, I should have worded my statement like this:</p>
<p>“I don’t think it’s quite fair, though, that your S might have bumped someone else from admission if had accepted one of these offers, particularly since your S wasn’t interested enough to apply in the first place.”</p>
<p>This might be farfetched but could this be a scam like you’ve won the Nigerian Lottery. You mail in the $300 check to the address given which is actually not the school ? Or worse yet, go online and use a credit card ?</p>
LOL at the totally out of left field ones (like Stern…and the rejection! Hah!).</p>