<p>My dtr is interested in applying in the fall. Can any of the accepted students please list their stats? Thanks!</p>
<p>I’m a bit on the high end for getting into Santa Clara, but good grades and extracurriculars are definitely required. It is without any doubt, a university on the rise on the national scene and it gets more competitive every year.</p>
<p>GPA: Unweighted 3.86; Weighted 4.28 (Cumulative for four years)
SAT: Reading 730 Writing 760 Math 690 (2180)
ACT: 32 Composite
AP’s: Biology (5), English Language (5) with three more classes being taken this year (English Literature, Spanish Language, Calculus AB)
Extracurriculars: Varsity Football (Team Captain), Youth Group leader, Confirmation leader, Student Body President, Bible Study Class, Diocesan camp counselor, Monte Rio Variety Show community fundraiser Committee Member, Newman Oxford Scholar, Volunteer tutor at local homeless shelter twice a week. (That is all for my senior year) Other than that I have played both Rugby and Men’s Volleyball for a year each, and volunteered at my Parish festival for the first three years of high school.</p>
<p>As for awards, I was a National Merit Commended Student and recieved the Christian Gentleman Award from my school. I was also given a leadership award by my town’s Rotary Club.</p>
<p>If your daughter is looking for schools with similar cultures to Santa Clara, I would look into Boston College, Georgetown, and Fordham. They are all highly respected Jesuit universities with a student body that takes a lot of pride in their school and works to form a dynamic and fun community. Boston College I know most about because I was accepted there. It has a Catholic culture very equitable to Santa Clara (that cannot be said for Georgetown), though I would caution that depending on your financial situation, they have very poor financial aid. Similar institutions academically would be Loyola Marymount and Loyola Chicago (midsize Master’s universities in the Jesuit tradition).</p>
<p>I got $14,000 in scholarships, but applied Early Action. Several of my friends with lower stats got larger scholarships through Regular Decision. If your daughter has stats that seem to be a very likely or guaranteed admission, I would apply Regular for more money (they seem to be more conservative in Early). However, this does not allow you to apply to the Honors Program. I was invited to apply to the Honors Program, though I chose not to. My stats, I believe, are average for an honors student at Santa Clara.</p>
<p>I hope this has all been helpful. Good luck to your daughter.</p>
<p>thank you so much. you’ve been very helpful. congratulations on your acceptance! by the way you responded to this post, I think you’ll do wonderful at school :)</p>
<p>Just wondering why you chose not to take up the honors school offer?</p>
<p>Initially, Santa Clara wasn’t super high on my list, so I didn’t really think I would end up there (my mom went to Santa Clara and I blew it off a bit as “mom’s school”). I also wasn’t all that sure about honors programs because I was worried that college might be hard enough as an adjustment without having to worry about extra work. All the schools I’ve been to allow you to apply mid-year to transfer into the program if you want. I’m not sure if I should have applied or not, but at the time, I just was worried about additional stress.</p>
<p>I sound a lot like the other poster, but I was accepted to SCU Honors as well</p>
<p>SAT: 750(math), 640(reading), 640(writing)
GPA: 3.8(uw), 4.23 (w)
7 APs 5 honors</p>
<p>Assorted ecs I’m too lazy to list</p>
<p>I ended up getting a full tuition merit scholarship. SCU is very generous with financial aid as they are competing to get top tier students from other schools like Stanford and Berkeley.</p>
<p>How good is Santa Clara at giving financial aid? I have a 4.3 weighted GPA and a 1950 (so far) on the SAT. (560 CR, 630 WR, 760 MA). For my family it is out of the question to attend SCU without any aid so is it a waste to apply? I just visited it today and it was my favorite! A truly amazing place!</p>
<p>Just let me know if you think my scores are high enough for a merit scholarship or a good amount of need-based aid. Thanks!</p>
<p>SCU spends a lot of money on it’s students. Your GPA is great, but your SAT score could use work (especially CR). If you can take it again and try not to have any 500 scores and get an overall score of 2000+. That will make you look like a stronger applicant.</p>
<p>Okay, I’m taking it again in October and really working for a 600+ on CR. I’m definitely Math oriented so critical reading has always been hard for me 
thanks for the advice!</p>
<p>LilyEmery - I was encouraged to read about your full tuition scholarship. Congratulations! Do mind sharing whether this was all merit or was some of it based on need?</p>
<p>BTW, I know several students who got in with lower GPA’s and SAT/ACT scores so don’t be scared off from applying by looking at the stat’s above.</p>
<p>Also, you might want to look at University of San Diego as well as Loyola Marymount.</p>
<p>I actually am looking at those two! haha and Chapman 
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<p>thanks!</p>
<p>cbug: It was all merit. I was honestly surprised I got that much and into the honors program. I had shown a lot of interest in the school and visited on multiple occasions so I think that might have helped. Good luck!</p>
<p>LilyEmery, if you don’t mind, are you from California or out of state?</p>
<p>California. More specifically the Bay Area. Another reason I was surprised to be offered such a good package.</p>