I got in and received Turck Honor Scholarship( I am an international student)!!! Mac is truly a great school and is one of my top choices. I couldn’t be happier to go there!!!
ACCEPTED WITH MERIT SCHOLARSHIP!!! I am honestly so pumped!!! Congrats to everyone who got in!!!
Accepted with Merit 
Hey, is it just me, or were there way more applicants than usual this year? 6000+ applicants for 500 spots, for an 8% admissions rate, isn’t that super low? Unigo claims their admissions rate is 34%…Am I screwing up the math? Am I missing something? Or is Mac just really popular all of a sudden?
@salter They accept far more than 500 people because they have to take yield into account. Not everyone who gets into Mac is going to attend. They probably accepted ~2000 students.
Cool, thanks.
Accepted with DeWitt Wallace Scholarship! (2250 SAT, 3.81 UWGPA / 4.43 WGPA) Does anyone know if the Macalester Class of 2019 Facebook page is legitimate?
Son in with a Dewitt Scholarship and excellent fin. aid - very pleased for him! 2130 SAT, ECs mostly drama with lots of Shakespeare, slam poetry. We will visit before deciding for sure, but Mac is looking good.
Bittersweet, D was accepted, no merit aid, no financial aid. Mac is her dream school, but with no money we can’t justify sending her there.
Hi guys. Have any of you received your need-based FA packages yet? I feel mine may be coming late because IDOC didn’t process my documents until later (although they were all uploaded on time)
Ours was linked at the bottom of the admissions letter screen; Mac received our documents from IDOC on 2/12 according to the portal.
Both S1 and S2 were accepted. Both awarded DeWitt Wallace Scholarships. Little nervous about the full financial aid package, as we missed the IDOC deadline. We couldn’t finish the 1040 in time, as I didn’t receive some of the tax information until earlier this week. Hopefully it won’t impact them too much.
Received no non-need-based financial aid even though family doesn’t make much money. Guess it doesn’t pay to save money after all.
rejected 
guess it was expected for an international applying for financial aid
S was accepted, but no mention of merit or FA. We did apply for aid. We haven’t received anything in the mail yet, just the online acceptance. Guess I’ll call the FA office today and find out if there is additional info coming.
@BSDmom You have to scroll to the very end of the page to see your financial aid eligibility. It is in really small text.
Is anyone thinking of doing the Extended Sampler Invitation visit?
Thanks @Encord, I checked but nothing there. Called the FA office and they said that one of the documents on IDOC has not yet been processed so I am sending it to Mac directly. Honestly don’t hold out much hope for FA and without a merit scholarship he will have to attend another school.
If I’m not seeing anything, it’s not because I’m not getting anything right? I’m going to call the FA office to see what’s up…
It would be below the video that says welcome in several languages right???
I got wait listed. I’m honestly shocked they didn’t just reject me and happy I still have a small chance. Mac is my first choice (should’ve done ED) and I really want to attend so I’m going to update my app and hope for the best. Hopefully this won’t be a year they admit no one from the wait list. Anyone know the 2014 wait list stats?