Thanks - this is super helpful!
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Late post, sorry, just adding to the updates so people have more data points: D deferred EA. High school is a competitive Midwest Catholic school that sends about 50 apps to Santa Clara annually and usually has 5-10 kids matriculate. Grading is 1-100 so hard to translate but sheâs around a 4.0 unweighted and 4.3 or 4.4 weighted; close to the max APâs allowed and otherwise all Honors, 4âs and 5âs on AP exams; submitted a 34 ACT. Not an academic superstar, but probably around top 6-7% of her class academically. Excellent list of ECâs with deep involvement and leadership.
We suspect her deferral may be yield protection. I recognize that sounds arrogant, but there are several hundred points on her high schoolâs Naviance scatterplot, without any rejections during the period of the data set for anyone close to her numbers. The landscape of admissions has changed, but not that much that fast. She hasnât visited or otherwise demonstrated any particular interest in Santa Clara, and they likely assume that she, like everyone else with similar #'s from her school, is also applying to some combination of Georgetown, Notre Dame, Villanova and BC (a correct assumption, as it turns out), and likely ED at one of them (incorrect, but a good bet nonetheless). Theyâve seen enough of her profile to know thereâs a good chance itâs a safety app, so why not make her demonstrate otherwise before March? Sheâs already gotten into a couple of places higher on her list and is pulling her Santa Clara app, so if they figured there was a good chance she wouldnât be around by regular decision time and wanted to see some indication from her that she might go there before offering her a slot, they played it right.
To all here whoâve gotten in or had kids accepted to Santa Clara, congratulations! Terrific place with a great community and Iâm sure you/they will love it. And to anyone else, keep you chin up - itâs all gonna work out.
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Does anyone know when early decision two decisions come out ?
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My D was not going to submit the info to stay in the RD pool (deferred) but changed her mind since they extended the deadline.
Deferred S23
Bay Area public high school
4.0/4.6+ GPA
1540 SAT
Comp Sci major.
Frustrating, to say the least.
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Very surprisingâthose are amazing stats. Did you see the press release they put out about ED/EA choices? Itâs illuminating. December 2022 - News & Events - Santa Clara University
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Would it be easy to switch majors within L and S (not CS related) or even L and S to a less competitive engineering major? Back in November D had a major in mind that now seems better as a minor.
Contact the school and ask. My kid switched from undeclared to engineeringâŠand then picked up a second major in biology with no difficultyâŠbut that was between 2006-2010
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Does anyone know when the deferred / rd decision will come out ?
Thanks
Based on last yearâs release date, this year will be Thursday March 16 in the afternoon pacific time. (If itâs the same this year!)
Thanks.
Yippee. I got in Electrical and Computer Engg.
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Waitlisted. 3.8 1470 humanities.
A bit surprised / disappointed but oh well.
Thanks for posting. S23 is Johnson finalist. Same situation as your daughter. Offered only about $14k. What was the virtual interview day like? How many kids was she competing against? Trying to determine if chances are worthwhile enough to take a full day off school for zoom event.
My child is a finalist for the Johnson Scholarship. Can you tell me (1) Was she already awarded the $14K before she went into the Johnson Scholar program (2) Did she tell you how many finalists there were? My D23 was only offered around $4K a year at acceptance. She was under the impression she would be considered for another scholarship if she didnât win the top one. Seems odd to put people into the full ride pool only to award them less money than the students who werenât semifinalists.
Any review about college of Arts and SciencesâŠmy daughter got into physics engineering