Susquehanna has begun rolling out decisions for applicants who’ve applied, so I figured I’d start this thread!! Feel free to post your stats, admissions decision, scholarship details, etc.
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Hello! I just recently got accepted to Susquehanna University with the very generous Presidential Scholarship for $28,000 per year with these stats! Most likely attending! Good luck to everyone!
Ethnicity: Asian
From Pennsylvania
Ranked 10/140 in small rural high school
SAT : 1770 CR: 580 M: 520 W: 670
Weighted GPA : 4.010
All honors classes
Dual Enrollment: US History II, Chem 2, and Statistics
Took half days at high school and two courses at Juniata College:
Introduction to Anthropology
Foundations of Education
EC’s:
Held part-time job during summer and junior year
@haleybutinaaaa congrats!! I’ve also been accepted with a similar scholarship (trustees, 27k), just haven’t gotten around to posting my stats!! susquehanna is pretty high up on my list 
Caucasian
In state
Class Rank- Top 15% (Class of about 500)
GPA (UW)- 3.43/4
GPA (W)- 6.1/7
ACT- 28 C – 30 E, 30 S, 29 R, 23 M
13 honors classes (A’s and high B’s in all), No AP’s – currently taking one dual enrollment course, current standing is an A.
Honors: National Honor Society (12), National Art Honor Society (11,12), and I’m a published writer as of last year, if that could be considered an honor.
Activities-
Founding member of my school’s student gov (10,11,12)
French Club (9,10[VP],11[P],12[P])
Gay-Straight Alliance (10,11,12)
NHS and NAHS also appear under activities.
Recipient of the Trustee’s Scholarship (27k/yr).
Congratulations to you both, @outtahere2017 and @haleybutinaaaa !! Did you get your decisions via an admissions portal or snail mail? My D applied several weeks ago and has not heard yet.
@xanthippe I received my acceptance via snail mail! I’m pretty sure they only sent out a few acceptances early. Assuming your D applied EA, she should be hearing back by December 1st at the latest!! Please, keep us updated!
Thanks for the info! I’ll post here after she gets her decision.
My daughter is a freshman this year at SU. She loves it! The art students were bused to Manhattan one day. They were dropped off at the Metropolitan Art Museum, but they were free to do whatever they liked. She is really happy she chose to attend the school. Good luck to all of you!
@MaineLonghorn That’s awesome!! I was accepted into SU’s creative writing major, which I know is a great program because I did one of their summer camps. The campus is so beautiful and the professors are incredible! My only real concern is that it really is in the middle of “Pennsyltucky”, and coming from a city, I don’t know how “entertained” I’d be there (which I know shouldn’t be a huge deciding factor, but I’m still iffy about). Do you know if they do trips like that often?
I know they run shuttles to Philadelphia and DC. I’ll ask my daughter. She’s had no problem staying entertained, though. Every time she calls, she’s off to do something else with her friends. She’s a photography major for now.
I just got accepted with the 28K Presidential Scholarship! I also got notice by snail mail. It’s a safety school, but the more I read about it, the more I’m starting to like it. I’m hoping to study Music and Creative Writing, and Susquehanna looks great for these!
Ethnicity- Caucasian
From Pennsylvania
GPA- 4.2 Weighted
SAT- 1960
Cum Laude recipient
EC-
Student Council Sec/Treas (10th), S.C. V.P. (12th)
Mock Trial
State Choir (3yrs)
School Choir (5yrs)
Library Volunteer (2 summers)
Lifeguard (2yrs)
Am updating with my D’s application status: she was accepted, with the $28k presidential scholarship! She is still waiting to hear from several other schools, but we are impressed with the beautiful campus, breadth of majors and the warm, personal quality of all the interactions we’ve had with Susquehanna students and faculty thus far. Seems like a great school!
I was accepted about two weeks ago with the 28k presidential scholarship!
Ethnicity: Caucasian
From: NJ
GPA: 3.6
ACT: 28
EC-
A lot of sports (baseball is my favorite)
American Red Cross Club (and other clubs I’ve forgotten in my excitement)
Charity/volunteer work
I was recently accepted as well with a $26,000 a year scholarship.
Ethnicity: White
From: NJ
school doesn’t give out rankings
New SAT: 1080 (600 English, 480 math)
Weighted GPA : 3.42
Took two honors classes (English 2 and 20th Century to Early 1900s) and two AP’s (English 3 and java) in all of high school. The java course also doubles as a FDU college course.
My last “real” math class was last year, junior year, and pre-calc. Decided against calc this year.
EC’s:
I’m really not a good student, to be honest. I think my essay is getting the key to acceptance/grant money for a lot of these colleges because I wrote about being gay and they’re all about diversity and acceptance.
SU is not my first choice, though. Goucher is what I’m looking for. Just thought I would post my stats for other people.
Kind of like reverse discrimination if you think about it.
@jshp123 yes, I wrote mine about the same thing and totally agree!! haha
Hello! I was accepted a few months ago for the class of 2021! I received a 35k scholarship and another 5k in loans!
My stats: GPA W 3.7, ACT 26. I took 5 AP’s, 4 Honor courses.
EC’s: Editor of zephyr literary club, Co-President of Varsity Athletes Against Substance Abuse, tons of volunteering, worked 3 jobs(currently only 1, what a relief! :)) ), and won 3rd place in the regional Science Olympiad Microbiology Competition.
Congrats to everyone else who got it, and good luck to everyone who is waiting for a decision!! :x :)>-
Congratulations! That’s a wonderful scholarship. I hope you like SU as much as my daughter has.
My Son has decided to go to Susquehanna, it was a safety at first but then it won him over the others. I made him apply to 16 colleges and he got accepted to 15. Susq. offers all he wants, great scholarships and FA package, CS program, Study abroad program.
Only concern is that is in a rural area 3 hours from home.
27k a year Trustee scholarship
GPA 3.6 UW
SAT 1150
Community service
Jazz
Marching band
Debate Club
Film club
4 AP
Honors classes, (not sure how many)
Language Honor society
Worked at AP during presidential election
Had other PT jobs
@MOMoFJ, my daughter just finished her freshman year at SU. She has had a wonderful experience so far. You are fortunate that he will be only three hours from home! We are 500 miles away. It takes about nine hours to drive one way. Is your son going to play in the jazz band? Did he apply for the scholarship for non-music majors? My daughter got one. $1k per year and includes weekly private lessons at no extra charge.