I’m curious if anyone has received an invitation for the Marquis Fellowship weekends? Looking through old threads, candidates were notified in early Feb in prior years. We were hoping our D would receive an invite but she has not as of yet.
Anyone receive an invite?
Yes, the invites went out quite a while ago, and the first weekend is this Saturday. I received my invite at the end of January.
Thanks for the info @yonceonhismouth. Unfortunately, that probably means Lafayette is not in the my D’s future…
If you aren’t invited to the fellowship wknd, she still has a chance at the smaller Marquis Scholarship.
Thanks for the info and encouragement.
We applied to Laf and several other private schools that offer merit aid in the hopes of getting substantial aid, as we are full pay. We knew it was a long shot but went ahead and applied anyway. Given her stats (3.85UW, 35ACT, 9APs including Calc BC, Physics, etc.) and ECs we thought she would be invited but certainly felt it was a long shot to get the Fellowship.
She does have a full tuition scholarship at a state school as a fall back and has applied RD to a bunch of other schools so we will wait to get all of the options on the table and make a decision.
That’s kind of odd she wasn’t invited. I have a slightly higher GPA (3.9UW) but a much lower SAT score (2210). Are you sure she’s checked her spam/junk folder?
Yeh, we checked several times since we thought the invites would have went out a few weeks ago…
As has been pointed out on CC, when you get to the more competitive schools or awards, it is very selective and the schools have their own goals they are trying to meet. Maybe she didn’t have enough service hours/activities. Maybe they wanted more geographic diversity (we are in PA but 5+ hours away from Laf). It’s hard to know and we will try not to beat ourselves up about it and move on.