<p>Yay yay yay! My son was accepted to the pre-med program with the chancellor’s scholarship ($8K a year). </p>
<p>SATs 1900
ACT 27
3.8 uw gpa - no idea what his weighted is</p>
<p>third degree black belt in taekwondo
wilderness first aid certified
nearly fluent in Spanish
captain of jv golf team; on varsity golf and baseball teams
has a part time job </p>
<p>We’re really excited!</p>
<p>Did you find out by mail? Because my spire still isn’t updated.</p>
<p>And then there was one. </p>
<p>Congrats to your son, BTMell!!</p>
<p>I know ConfusedMom 
I wish we were sharing this for sure.</p>
<p>Yay BTMell tell him to join umass Amherst class of 2017 on Facebook!!</p>
<p>Thanks BTMell! Since my DS was already accepted as Undeclared, I don’t know if his notification process will be different from other people’s. if he remains undeclared then his on line status will never change. Hopefully we will get a letter in the mail soon.</p>
<p>Sunset- I’m going to friend you on facebook. Don’t want to share my name here :)</p>
<p>Ok sounds good!</p>
<p>That’s right - I’d forgotten that ConfusedMom. The same happened to the daughter of a friend of mine. Which school is his favorite right now?</p>
<p>I got my acceptance letter in the mail today! I received an invitation to the Honors College and the Dean’s Scholarship.
SAT 2070 (1350/1600)
96.25 weighted GPA
Congratulations to all those accepted! I’m sure everyone who is still waiting will hear really soon. By the way, it still says under review on my spire.</p>
<p>Congratulations!!!</p>
<p>So I’m trying to sign us up for an open house. I go to the link provided and am directed to my son’s Spire account. No where can I see a link for spring open houses. I wonder if that link activates when he moves from Under Review? Anybody know?</p>
<p>Got acceptance letter in mail today for BS in Comp Sci with $8k scholarship. </p>
<p>3.6 uw gpa
29 act</p>
<p>BTMell-UConn has always been his top choice but it would be foolish not to consider UMass Amherst. It has a great engineering program and it is so much less expensive. (about 15k/yr). Also waiting to see if we get any FA from UConn.</p>
<p>BTMell- you could very well be right about the Open House info showing up after the status changes.</p>
<p>That’s what I’m thinking. I can’t find it anywhere.</p>
<p>Yah you guys have to wait until your spire says accepted!! I’m going to the march 29 open house so let me know if any of you guys are going then! And Emmacat did you friend me yet?</p>
<p>That’s the one we’re hoping to go to also. I’ll keep you posted!</p>
<p>Yeah, cost does matter. I’m not sure my son has a favorite at this point. UMass is a little scary to me given his hearing loss. I’m guessing some really big classes which might be difficult although in looking at the disabilities services website, they look like they’re really “up” on accommodating hearing loss and communication methodologies of all types. I think I mentioned my older son is at Hampshire. He’s the only deaf kid at Hamp and has been well accommodated there - but the classes are so small too so that helps a bunch. I’d hoped S would be invited to the honors college but think his standardized tests were quite “there”. We’ll see!</p>
<p>Let’s all hope that spire is updated tonight because it could be a week. Otherwise, it’ll update tomorrow night.
Sunset - I did friend you. :)</p>