mstomper, yeah, he will find his tribe and if he is totally miserable, he can transfer too. Since both of his parents have some ties to the south, that is part of his culture too and he will have more realistic idea from you two what he is walking into. i went to a huge southern state school that had some pretty big pockets of liberals. have not heard whether ole miss has that or not but they almost certainly have some small pockets. Even Baylor has some liberal pockets these days.
Culturally, temple would be a better fit but ole miss is too good of a deal to pass up.
@sugarlicious I’m an international who has just received my acceptance through the portal and I applied on the 1st of November. Maybe you should check the decision in your portal
Congratulations to all who got the President’s Scholarship! It looks like it may have been a little harder to make it this year, probably because Temple is a school on the way up. If only our son had done his assignments in classes he didn’t particularly like… He did it to himself. Lucky for him he has other options.
@mstomper Happy for your son that he still has the full tuition and room at Ole Miss! Was reading about their program after reading your posts and many students raved about the honors program there… I think they even had several Rhodes Scholars (impressive!) I’m sure he will do well wherever he goes -esp after having learned such a valuable lesson! Best of luck to him!
I live in the Philly burbs and just received my envelope today. President’s Scholar with admission to the Honors program!!! for reference, I have a 33C ACT and 4.0ish UW GPA. good luck to all who applied!
DS received his envelope today. Presidential Scholar and admission to Honors. His SAT score is 2250/1510 with a 3.9 us GPA. We are really excited- DH is Temple grad and would love to see him take this opportunity. Congrats to all the other scholars. Hope to see more here.
Got my envelope! Provost scholarship and Honors! Woo hoo! They had me stressed there for a whole with the no honors reception invite on the portal until last week!
I applied Early Action on the November 1st deadline. Got my acceptance last Thursday (December 3rd) out of nowhere so that was pretty exciting. Got the “care package” today with a bunch of information on the school, including the President’s Scholar full tuition offering, Honors, housing details, and some general academic and social stuff. Pretty psyched to get all the scholarship confirmation, kinda feels like a load off my shoulders since my first college decision was an acceptance with this kind of supplement.
Seems like today was the day. D got the presidential package. ACT 34, UW GPA 4.0
She got full tuition to Pitt last week as well–no clue what she will do.
Yes he is, that is a demonstration of his commitment. They will adjust it against room and board, books etc or if nothing is needed than it will be refunded to him when he joins Temple. Most colleges have a similar policy
yes, he still needs to submit deposit. This is a very simplified explanation, but we had various expenses for my son’s first year at Temple and then his $200 admission deposit and his housing deposit were credited to his overall bill. he also has full tuition scholarship and he still needed to submit the admissions deposit.
In Philly burbs eagerly awaiting the letter. Pretty sure DS qualified for Presidential Scholarship. If it doesn’t come tomorrow, I worry. On portal, he did sign up for the Spring Admitted Student program and it says Honors on it. Hoping…
Has anyone with a Provost’s Scholarship gotten a letter in the mail yet? So far everyone I’ve seen get a letter this week has gotten a Presidential Scholarship.I still haven’t gotten a letter so I’m starting to think they were sent in two batches.
I got a Provost. When did you apply? I applied on 10/14 got my acceptance on the portal 11/9 got my envelope yesterday. Maybe yours was later? Good luck!
