<p>My son applied to Richmond in October and was invited to submit essays for Richmond Scholars in december, as a semi-finalist. He has not heard anything since. Does anyone know when the finalists hear about the March interviews or has that notification already happened?</p>
<p>I was wondering the same thing. Judging from posts from last year at this time, it looks like maybe they will be notified sometime late this week or early next week. If anyone calls to find out, please post here!</p>
<p>I got a call today notifying me that I am a finalist for the Science Scholar</p>
<p>Thanks very much for the update. My understanding is an email and mail letters will be sent this week for all of the Richmond Scholars finalists. Non-finalists will not be notified.</p>
<p>i received am email today saying that i was accepted and am a finalist for the Oldham Scholarship good luck to everyone else..and did anyone else from NJ get it? It would be cool to talk to other finalists on facebook or something..</p>
<p>i got my letter today (an email) saying i was accepted and a boatwright scholar finalist</p>
<p>I also got an email today saying I was accepted/Boatwright Finalist. I don't know if I'm going to be able to make the trip to campus on the weekend, though. Hopefully I will be able to be there.</p>
<p>When would we find out about the Bonners or presidential scholarships? In March/April?</p>
<p>everyone who is a finalist is automatically a presidential scholar (15k per year)
and the bonner scholarship is announced "April or May".... i spoke with Jennifer Landis-Santos, who works within the program, about it.</p>
<p>Have all the Richmond Scholar finalists been notified already? I heard there was a Mar. 1 deadline for notifications but don't know if that's correct.</p>
<p>I called about a week ago and the admissions office said there was a March 1st deadline.</p>
<p>There's still hope, then .....</p>
<p>Hello--</p>
<p>Richmond Scholar finalist notifications have been going out over the last two weeks by both e-mail and Federal Express. If you or your student has not yet been notified, that means that he or she was not selected as a finalist. There were over 4000 applications for Richmond Scholar this year, about 600 students selected as semi-finalists and just over 100 selected as finalists so it was a very competitive process and there were many excellent students in the pool who were unfortunately not selected. The offers for Presidential Scholarships will go out by the end of this week, so, students, watch your in-boxes! </p>
<p>UR Admissions</p>
<p>Hello--</p>
<p>Richmond Scholar finalist notifications have been going out over the last two weeks by both e-mail and Federal Express. If you or your student has not yet been notified, that means that he or she was not selected as a finalist. There were over 4000 applications for Richmond Scholar this year, about 600 students selected as semi-finalists and just over 100 selected as finalists so it was a very competitive process and there were many excellent students in the pool who were unfortunately not selected. The offers for Presidential Scholarships will go out by the end of this week, so, students, watch your in-boxes! </p>
<p>UR Admissions</p>
<p>^^ UR admissions,
Does this mean that you had 4000 completed apps submitted by the early december deadline, and roughly 15% of all early apps were asked to submit essays as semi-finalists? If this is the case, what measure was used to determine this initial screening, SAT alone, or in combination with GPA? Are you free to divulge this years initial screening numbers?</p>
<p>Hi Turtephobic--Yes, there were roughly 4000 complete applications received by December 15. We invited just over 600 semi-finalists to submit additional information. There is not any sort of strict number cut-off in terms of student stats to have made that cut. Instead, each folder was read and evaluated by an admission officer to determine suitability for selection. Most of those selected did have very strong "numbers" although there were also some whose numbers were just "good" but whose applications demonstrated qualities that our faculty are really looking for in Scholars that were invited to submit as well. As for what kind of strong numbers, most of the semi-finalists had, the most important thing would have been having taken a highly rigorous curriculum for the context of the particular secondary school. After that, superior grades (A to A- averages typically) and superior test scores (usually high 1400's and better on CR+M or 2100's and up on CR+M+WR or 32 ACT composite). These would be ball park numbers, though. No one would be eliminated based on having slightly lower numbers than I'm quoting. The folders were read in the order that their credentials became complete and not sorted in any way based on stats--this is the reason that the notifications started rolling out not long after Dec. 15--we started reading complete people well before the deadline and continued well into January to identify semi-finalists. There has been some discussion on the board about why that was the case. So it wasn't an "excel" operation--instead a one at a time read every applicant carefully kind of operation. </p>
<p>I know that people are disappointed when they aren't selected and I understand that totally. Most of the 4000 were great students and I hope they won't feel that they were either screened out based on a number somewhere in their application (because they weren't) or that no one appreciated their particular alignment of talents and skills and potential contributions. Because those are evident when carefully read, which we do. I wish we had scholarships for everyone we admit! But we don't. </p>
<p>Good luck to everyone. This part of the process is nearing the end (thank goodness for all of us!). </p>
<p>UR Admissions</p>
<p>Dear UR Admissions,</p>
<p>If you are a semi-finalist/finalist in the Richmond Scholars program, is it any indication of whether or not you are accepted into the University?</p>
<p>jaybee - the email and letter I received notifying me of my status also indicated that I had been offered admission and a $15,000 scholarship.</p>
<p>To the other Richmond Scholar finalists: Have a safe trip up! I will see you guys there!</p>
<p>Any student who is a finalist for Richmond Scholars has been notified of their offer of admission. Semi-finalists for Richmond Scholars should feel pretty confident that they are likely to be admitted, although there may be a handful who are not if something in their application changed between the time it was filed till the time the very final decisions are made. The kind of things that could change that would hurt someone would be having less than acceptable grades in the first semester of senior year, dropping classes and therefore making your curriculum less challenging, or getting kicked out of school for mis-behavior or cheating. Don't laugh! It happens every year so I will hope none of you will put yourselves in a position to experience such a consequence. . . . . </p>
<p>For those who are wondering when decisions will be mailed, sorry that I'd lose my job if I told you precisely when that was scheduled (well, probably not literally lose my job, but make a lot of nice colleagues mad at me). But you'll have the news by April 1. I know that seems like a long time to wait, but it will be here in the blink of an eye!</p>
<p>UR Admissions</p>
<p>I'm not surprised that the scheduled mailing date is top secret since it may change and if it did there would be thousands of angry students emailing, telephoning, and possibly even faxing the admission office with unnecessary complaints. I should not have taken off the entire day of work today just because of a theater performance that isn't until later tonight. Now I'm sitting here worrying about college, again. I'm going to waste some time by drawing some conclusions about admissions. 2743 people were accepted to UR last year, 150 from early decision. If the same number of people are accepted this year, then a little over 600 of that 2743 should have a pretty good idea because they were semifinalists for Richmond Scholars. So a little over 750/2743 (23.7%) already know/have an idea that they are accepted. </p>
<p>We also know there is a tentative scheduled date for mailing admission decisions that is probably in the next two weeks. According to past posts, people received decisions around Monday, March 20 last year and (Saturday) March 26 the year before. It sounds like they sent the letters on the preceding Friday. Perhaps this year's mailing date is March 16th or March 23rd? </p>
<p>What does all this mean? Nothing!! I can’t believe I just wasted ten minutes typing this. I just want to go to UR!</p>