It looks like last year’s first acceptance posts are time stamped at about 4EST (I’m converting from my time zone, and I think I’m reading it right). Good luck today!
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Great! Good luck to you, too!
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I believe @Paleochick’s son already received a likely letter back in Feb 
Congratulations once again.
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Thank you!
Yay! Decisions are out!!!
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Check your portals. 
And cry over the sticker price. 
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DD22 is accepted with some substantial, but still twice the tuition of the honors program in-state, merit aid. We’ll need to visit again and have scheduled to attend the admitted students day for both our state flagship (admitted, no honors) and a regional (admitted, honors, merit $ and a really beautiful campus). We’re in NC, so the tuition makes us gulp. But the location, the internship possibilities, the chance for a small school for nerds (why are so many of the techie schools so big?).
Does anyone know about the pinnacle scholars program?
To BlueCoffee, if you could share: what colleges in NC did you apply? My son applied to WF, no decision yet!.
Sure–she’s in at NCSU (Poole School of Business), UNC-Wilmington (honors), UNC-Charlotte (honors). Didn’t apply to privates in state. (She has a twin sister who did, so if my posts seem confusing, that’s why). I think it’ll come down to Stevens vs NCSU, with UNC-W back a ways. UNC-C is not a contender for her. She’s thinking she wants a business career in a STEM area. Time will tell.
Why UNC isn’t a contender…we didn’t apply there, even though really liked the scoool, as we were told that UNC takes 75% of NC residents…my son is applying for biomedical engineering.
He got accepted to Stevens , but cost fortunate, their scholarship doesn’t help.
Are you asking about Chapel Hill? She didn’t get in there–I made her apply even after she told me there was no way she’d get in or go if she did. She was right on the first count. She is very set on STEM+business in combination, and the thing about UNC is that you don’t know if you’re in the business school until you apply in your sophomore year, and it’s competitive. She wanted to go to either a school where she could just declare a business major (the two regionals, plus Richmond where she’s waitlisted) or one where she knew she was already accepted in the business program (Stevens, NCSU) Once that was set in her mind, it made things fall into place. NCSU with no aid or merit is still $20K a year less than Stevens with merit aid.
Does applying test optional seem to affect merit offers this year?
I don’t know. My son was accepted - he submitted his scores.
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DD accepted, submitted test scores (32 ACT), $35K in merit. Not enough to attend yet, but we’ll visit on the accepted students’ day and share her latest accomplishments and see if it budges. FA was loans only. She’s also accepted at our flagship, which is DH’s alma mater…he’s the challenge here. She’d love the adventure of being there, I love everything about the location and opportunities, he wants her closer to home and to graduate debt-free. We shall see.
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Is anyone else from out of NJ with a daughter going to the admitted students day April 28? My daughter is going with my husband who is very skeptical in terms of distance, so many more men on campus, and cost. I’d love it if I knew there was another girl attending who might have some of the same questions.
We are from MA and my son was accepted, but I saw two young women on reddit r/Stevens commenting to each other they’ve been having trouble connecting with others on the regular social media channels. https://www.reddit.com/r/stevens/comments/tqa40r/accepted_for_engineering_looking_for_advice/
Some also suggested discord is an active way to meet people, but I’m not on discord so I haven’t checked it out.
Good Luck!
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