I have heard the same . My daughter very nervous about the decision
Congrats.
I wanted to give a final recap since everything is now done with my daughter’s application season
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1470 (680 R 790 M)
ACT (breakdown):N/A
SAT II: N/A
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.96
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 15%
AP (place score in parenthesis): Didn’t send
9 Total AP classes by end of Senior year
Senior Year Course Load: AP Pyschology, AP Chemistry, Band, AP Literature, Honors Econ., AP Computer Science
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):None
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Marching Band 9-12, Reading Club 9-12 (Co-President 12), Mock Trial 11-12, Various Honor Societies
Job/Work Experience: None
Volunteer/Community service: Youth Church Usher 8-12th, Tutored at Church and School
Summer Activities: Xavier University of Louisiana Stress on Analytical Reasoning (S.O.A.R) Academic Program.
Intended Major: Chemistry
State (if domestic applicant): GA
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: 100K+
Schools and Final out of pocket costs per year (loans included) to attend after receiving financial aid. The schools with $0 are not accounting for transportation costs. Note: Daughter applied using Black Common Application because 2 schools she was applying to were cheaper through the application than separate. The bottom 7 schools were not considered (FAFSA not sent but some extended merit offers anyway)
Howard Univ (Attending) $0
Georgia Tech (Accepted) $12,500
Tulane University (Accepted) $29,500
North Carolina A&T Univ. (Accepted) $30,000
Xavier Univ. of Louisiana (Accepted) $0
University of Georgia (Accepted) $14,500
Hampton University (Accepted) $17,000
Louisiana St. University (Accepted) $28,000
Tennessee St. University (Accepted) $20,000
Alabama A&M University (Accepted) $13,000
Southern A&M University (Accepted) $0
Florida A&M University (Accepted) $29,000
Clark Atlanta University (Accepted) ???
Grambling University (Accepted) ???
Shaw University (Accepted) $0
Morgan St. University (Accepted) $0
Benedict College (Accepted) $0
Coppin St. University (Accepted) $0
Philander Smith College (Accepted) $0
Final Notes: This was an exhausting 10 months, but it has been worth it for my daughter and our family. I think my daughter had very little to complain about with her final results and the only “disappointment” was that she did not put more time into NC&AT essays and scholarship application (did not know anything about the school as it was the school I asked her to apply to) as she visited the school and loved the campus and the spirit of the student body. She did not make it to the finalist round for their big merit scholarship. Her biggest surprises were getting accepted into the Honors Program at Tulane with merit aid and actually being selected for the Bison Stem Scholars Program at Howard. She isn’t a great natural test taker but she worked pretty hard to bring her standardized test scores up in a short amount of time from 11th grade PSAT of 1280, up to 1390 by January of 11th grade up to the 1470 by August of 12th grade. She continued to work just in case and had raised her verbal on a SAT practice test in early September up to 730, but I knew she was done once we both saw the that final score. She has never been at the top of her class (even now trying to claw her way into the top 100 of her very large and talented senior class) but that has made her a fighter which has made things easy for my wife and I. (This last semester has been her best in high school). I want to say thank you again to all of the CC posters who have rooted for her and given advice that I have used (some of you could probably sue me for copyright infringement) for the betterment of my daughter and my family.
@ChangeTheGame Congrats and glad everything worked out so well for your daughter
That seems like a very top-heavy class at her high school…
@ucbalumnus They actually use the students averages in our school district to break out class rank. My daughter has a 95.07 average through 1 semester of senior year. The tippy top of her class of 800+ students is very good but doesn’t have outrageous numbers (6 NMFs) like some schools I have read about. What seems better than the average good suburban high school is where the students are going to college and the number of high achieving URM students. Students in her class have committed to Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, U Penn, Cornell, Duke, Vandy, Washington U, a few elite LACs, at least 15 Georgia Tech commits, and what looked like 100 University of Georgia commits from the College Day on May 1st (students wear the college they plan to attend so that can always change). The school demographics (55% minorities with about 35% URMs) is very diverse and the tippy top URMs at the school have better grades and standardized test scores than my daughter. The high school is the type where the top students thrive, the students at the bottom have lots of resources and the students in the middle (25%-75%) seem slightly neglected (my own personal assessment). But the teachers do care (About 1/3 of the teachers are alumni of the high school).
Great results!! And congrats!
As an A&T mom I can understand your “disappointment”!!! It really is a true hidden gem of the south! They have great ABET engineering and STEM programs in addition to the wonderful campus and so much school spirit. And this is coming from a mom with other kiddos’ schools that include UNC, NCSU, OOS publics and ivy’s.
And yes putting in the time for A&T’s app and essays/scholarship opportunities can pay off.
Again, congrats on her scholarship offer from Howard!!! Sounds like a wonderful opportunity.
Kat
@katwkittens My daughter definitely slept on NC&AT (it was last on her initial list) and she learned a lesson because she moved the school up to her top 2-3 schools after the visiting the campus. There are some things that kids have to learn the hard way, but it cost her any chance at NC&AT. But I like teachable moments and I will bring it up anytime she is blind to the value of putting in work for the rest of her life:) She probably won’t listen to me because Howard is where she wanted to go.
Thanks for sharing that summary! Congratulations to your daughter! Amazing opportunity.