My S school doesn’t rank so they couldn’t have used that as a parameter for everyone. I’m thinking a phone call cant hurt. People do sometimes ask for more money and get lucky. I’m pretty sure that they don’t take money from someone else who declined offer though. They offer a certain amount of applicants admittance and merit knowing what percentage will decline the offer each year. They leave some wiggle room in case a larger amount than expected accept the offer then take from the deferred list after they know their yield. Most of the schools my son applied to this year are saying that they have the largest applicant pool ever. This is making the group of accepted students stats higher than previous years.
@petercsauer you do have awesome stats! I’m guessing you may be CT resident. That’s probably why you didn’t receive merit? I would have guessed they would have given you a couple thousand a year though. They only give the big merit funds to OOS.
I use this site a lot to look at admissions stats and other stuff. Has uconn admissions data from past.
https://colleges.niche.com/university-of-connecticut/statistics/
Accepted/Storrs Campus - $18k/year academic excellence scholarship
SAT: Superscore 2180 (760 math, 710 writing, 710 reading)
ACT: Superscore 33
SAT II: 750 Math 2, 730 Biology E
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8
Rank: 46/512
AP: 9 total
DE: 2 total
Honors: 10
Major Awards: AP Scholar with Distinction, National Merit Commended Student
Extracurriculars: Varsity sport 1 year, JV sport 1 year
Job/Work Experience: work 12 hours/week
Volunteer/Community service: Counselor; organize annual charitable event in community
Intended Major: Biomedical Engineering
School type: public
OOS
White female
Oh boy thanks for correcting . I misread the stats. I thought it said about 1400 accepted off waiting list. That’s how many were on it. Seems so low hopefully a lot more get in this year off of list
Called admissions this morning, and was told that any merit is attached to the acceptance letter.
@LlParent101 I am CT resident and got merit $$ and Honors. It was noted in the acceptance letter.
They definitely do give merit for in state it’s just they give a lot more to OOS because of higher tuition.
S received his acceptance letter today. Honors Program and 18K/year OOS.
Stats
4.3 weighted GPA
2150 SAT
4 AP’s and all other classes Honors
High School basketball team (Captain 2 years) Extracurricular activities
I have been accepted to UCONN storrs for a computer science major and got a scholarship (which is renewable). This is crazy. I thought UCONN storrs, especially the engineering school is hard to get into. I did not think I was going to get in.
Major: Business
SAT: 2050 (Math 720, Reading 640, Writing 690)
SAT II: US History 760
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.53
Weighted GPA: 3.63
Rank: 15/47 (small private school)
AP: 2/5 offered
Essay: copy and pasted the wrong one
Extracurriculars: Varsity soccer 2 years, Captain 1 year, JV football 2 years
Job/Work Experience: 40 hours/ week as sushi apprentice in the summer of 10th and 11th
Volunteer/Community service: During trip to Vietnam for 40hrs last summer at a temple.
Leadership: Boys Rep. on class council, President and Co-Founder of Chess club, Vice President of Book club.
Hook: First generation to college, first gen immigrant.
Accepted into Storts Campus with 18k scholarship.
@jameslarkin Congrats to you! You should be very proud of yourself. I’m sure your school and your family are very proud as well.
For those people that have been accepted, I’m not aware of any existing Facebook group. Would anyone be interested in creating one and joining? They have one for other colleges I’ve been accepted into and its really helpful in terms of solving doubts, finding roommates etc etc 
It seems like I’m the only one who is still waiting to hear from UConn 
@RonnieD there definitely already is a Facebook group. It’s called “University of Connecticut (UConn) Class of 2020”
@singer1234 oh great, thank you so much!
Don’t worry!! I’m still waiting too lol
Haha I’m waiting too. We should keep each other informed the moment one of us finally gets an answer!
Don’t worry, I am still waiting too!
Still waiting too!!