UCONN Class of 2020 Decision Thread- for Storrs location

@Fiona1997 @becautious we are in eastern MA.

Does anyone know when the decisions came out last year?

@Fiona1997 last year I believe they came out either the last Thursday or Friday in March. So they should come out sometime at the end of next week.

Someone said the last Friday in February. Sooooo any day now.

Sorry. I meant February not March in my previous post.

@Ibikivr- congrats to your daughter! Will she accept? @fiona we are in Eastern MA, South Shore.

Best of luck to your son. Are you sure they look holisticly? I thought because they are a state school they just look at the numbers.

I am really hoping you’re right because my daughter is like your son.

Thank you

Checked back through tweets from UConn last year. Released on February 27.

My application status changed to complete on the conn website. It also said how in the coming days we will get a decision and if we have already received it in the mail, to click on a link to pay.

Same here Buggy6. Looks like we should hear something soon, likely this week. Exciting stuff!

Mine says the same

Based on last year, I think status will update after 5pm on Friday. Last year students started to get the same message on Sunday, 2/22 and status was updated that Friday after 5.

Did you guys see that in the Student Center under financial aid it has a “New Admit Scholarship Acceptance” letter with the terms and conditions of accepting scholarships? Its a general letter

Yes, my son’s says complete now! Woohoo, we are closer to answer. Yes, last year CoolegeConfidential shows quite a few getting website update that they were accepted on Friday 2/27,/and this year it would be Friday 2/26 if same cadence is followed. @thirdtime around, they said repeatedly in the formal tour preso that grades/test scores huge factor but that they look holistically. That said, they had 37k applicants, so anlotnwill have the scores/grades AND look great holistically. My son has an outside shot because he is holistically strong, grades very strong but not thru the roof, but 24 on ACT. National average is 21, but New England states are the top in the country with average of 24…so for New England he scores average. He gave himself the best shot possible by doing all the experts said to do: increase grades Senior year, visit school 3x to show sincerity, apply early (Oct) even if there is no EA, keep in touch w admissions occasionally to underline that you will in fact go if admitted, and on the couple of occasions you communicate with admissions be specific about why you like their particular program and how you see yourself fitting in. He did all that, so if it does not work out at least he can look himself in the mirror and know he did all he could do. If he doesn’t get in he is going to URI and they gave him decent merit so it will be $15k per year cheaper at this point. I am keeping fingers crossed.

@becautious did he also take SAT’s? My daughter was a 25 on ACT (had to take test left handed due to injury) scored north of 600 in CR and Math SAT. GPA is solid but It!s still nerve wracking. Accepted at URI with merit but not near one of her top choices. If not UConn I think she’ll pick Penn State.

@dadof2020and2024 He took SAT but didn’t submit it on CommonApp since the ACT was better. Where are you located? Penn State is FAB but hard to get to and HUGE. URI has pretty campus but a lot of private off-campus housing in beachy-bar areas. It can be a little wild- same reason I’m not too into him going to UVM, which gave him really great merit $. Parties can happen anywhere I get it, I went to college and partied a bit but ‘kept it real’. He loves UConn and as a mom I liked the fact that there is really no off campus housing to speak of. That means the campus housing is theoretically more tightly overseen than private off campus housing?? It will be what it will be but I feel like things can’t get as out of control in campus housing??? Maybe I’m naive. I want him to learn, have fun, sow some oats but not go too crazy! Its a fun time of life, but shouldn’t get dangerous. He’s a good kid, but an only child who is very social. Being an ‘only’ he’s pretty mature, but a teenage boy nonetheless! Handsome, outgoing, hard working, sincere, hope he meets a fabulous gilr along the way when the timing is right! LOL. As long as they are all safe and relatively happy with where they go we are blessed!

We’re from NH. URI did not appeal to her. It might be wild but if you don’t go that route its s commuter campus. Penn State is in the middle of nowhere but not far from I-80. My wife and I both went to UNH but she goes to one of the biggest HS’s in the State and feels like UNH will be another 4 years of HS. As it is I think her HS sent 20 to UConn last year. She’s in at Pitt, Clemson and Miami of OH but selfishly I want her close.

My son’s status changed to Application Complete. Woohoo! We are very excited! We live instate and I heard its harder to get in if you live in state. He is applying to get in Computer Science. This is a very competitive major to get into I am told. Junior year he had a 3.75 GPA but this year he has 3 AP’s AP Calc, AP Physics, and AP Computer Science and he is really doing extremely well in all of them A, B, A+. His SAT score was very good. 1900 total. I am hoping he gets in and some merit money. So do you think we will hear before Friday 2/26th?

lintris Wow- your son should get in with all his hard work/success, and you'd think he'd get merit $$ too. Fingers crossed that we all find out Friday. @dadof2020and2024 Those are all great schools! I feel like if they stay somewhere in New England we have more of a chance that they'll stay after graduation because they'll have more friends here, will tend to have internships that will lead to jobs here, etc. But that said they could go to school in New England and meet a guy/girl from Oregon and move far away too! I went to school waay out West, as did my husband, and we made good friends, but with life becoming so busy, expense of travel, you rarely get to see your friends you meet far away at school. I wish I had college friends here in New England to hang with now and then, because you get pretty close to those you attend with, but it will never be. My son has taken that to heart. He wants to go to school in New England so that when he waked up one day and is forty Yeats old, he will more likely have a few close college friends within driving distance. When it onvlives getting on a plane or a ten hour drive to see old college friends, it will rarely happen. Plus- if you plan on living in New England, it's good to go to college here from a future job networking standpoint. If you go to UCLA or Ohio State, what's the likelihood of having a large alumni population here that might help you get your career going a bit? No guarantees on that with alumni here either, but more likely.

Sorry- meant forty years old, not Yeats! And meant when it involves getting on plane! (should have edited)