@sdl0625 She liked the vibe of RIT when she visited. She has other schools on her list that are ranked higher that she will hear from this month, but she also eliminated other higher ranked schools from her list once she visited and didn’t end of applying to them.
@sdl0625 My son has an unweighted gpa of 3.91, weighted 4.54. This puts him barely in the top 10% of his class. Rank 74 out of 790. Very competitive high school. 1480 sat (780 math, 700 verbal), 34 act. He’s taken AP Bio, Chem, Physics 1, Comp Sci, all 5’s, AP world History, US History, English Lit, 4’s. His courses this year are AP English Lit B, Physics 2, Calculus BC, Macro Economics, and US Gov’t. He has been able to handle the course load while holding a part time job for last 3 years and playing varsity hockey.
Computer Science Major
Applied 12/1 Accepted 3/4
1540 SAT Physics
SAT Subject tests 760 Math 2 790
95 unweighted GPA 100 weighted
Ranked 30/379
Upward trend this year with 3 Ap, 1 college level and honors classes so GPA is higher at midyear
Honors, college level and AP classes
Robotics Software team captain, 3 of 4 years
Computer Science
SAT 1480 790 Math 690 Reading
GPA 3.98 unweighted 4.8 weighted
8 AP’s scoring 4 & 5’s
Clubs, Leadership, Community Service and 2 1/2 years at same job.
Still undecided
S19 had email with 17k merit day after acceptance.
3.85 uw, top 7% out of 660
35 ACT
APUSH-5
AP Lang -4
AP Calc- BC/3; AB/5
This year, AP CS, AP Physics, AP Govt,Calc Multvar, AP Pysch
It looks like cs majors received an extra 1k in presidential scholarship over other majors. My daughter had similar stats as to some of the cs kids and was awarded 16k instead of 17k. 1480 sat score, top 2% of her class. 17 AP courses.
@Artful4art Some kids got $20K in merit scholarships–my son, a Physics major, got a $20K Presidential merit scholarship.
CS Major
GPA: 3.95 UW
Class Rank: 30/268
ACT: 30 Composite, 31 Superscore
Math: 28
English: 31
Reading: 32
Science: 31
Writing: 10
Didn’t report any AP or SAT II subject tests
Activities: Charity owner and founder (7 years), concert and pep band, cheer team captain, several other charity bases ECS
Other: won a national award for my charity
Sadly, won’t be attending, I just got the finaid award back and it’s bad. I have an efc of 0 and got 22k+ worth of loans, which is almost my mom’s entire salary. Oh well.
Does anyone know when the next wave of RD decisions are going to be posted?
Just got our financials. They did give us a grant of $7000 bringing it down a little, but I know I will ave 2 in college for only 1 yr & I don’t think they count my 2nd if she goes to grad school so I dont know how affordable this is. Also reviewing the spreadsheet of costs for he next 4 yrs brings it up another $10,000.
I don’t think anyone knows, but I’m guessing tomorrow.
RIT dose not commit to fully met your financial need. .
My son got his RD acceptance to ME/Aero around 3 today. In the acceptance message, it says:
“Accepted applicants who have been awarded merit scholarships from RIT will receive a separate notification letter. Students who have submitted the 2019-2020 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) will receive an award letter in the coming weeks.”
There is nothing else in his portal. No separate notification letter regarding $. I need to know whether he got any merit. Does no additional letter in the portal mean no money or will that come later? Should I call their FA office.
My son got his about 3 pm today for Mech Eng
I believe others who have been accepted got their merit within a few days and need-based aid in a week or so. You may just have to wait and if he doesn’t hear anything by the end of next week then contact them.
S19 got the merit email the day after the acceptance. Full aid came two days ago, so within the week of the acceptance.
My D19 also received merit email the day after the acceptance notification. The hard copy of the award came a few days later via snail mail.
Really hoping I can get a decision this week?
My son hasn’t heard yet either. ?
All decisions are supposed to be released by mid-March, so Friday at the latest seems likely.