We are another who has heard nothing about LLC. I really appreciate the parents on this forum sharing what we know. It’s nice to have some teamwork trying to figure this out!
My kid’s emails all go to his high school account, that’s the account on his application.
My son checked his Utah email and didn’t have the email about merit decisions coming out the 22nd or LLCs.
Mine is at school today for the first time since March of 2020! I will have him check his Umail when he gets home today and update if he has anything.
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What are the LLC that kids are hearing about? We haven’t heard and applied to Honors, but honestly right before the deadline.
I wonder if the kids that wanted Lassonde are hearing back but the Kalhert ones have heard nothing?
My daughter put down both Kahlert and Lassonde. She received an email yesterday that she got into Lassonde but hasn’t heard yet about Kahlert. Message was sent to her regular email address, not her UMail.
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Our email (to personal) was also Lassonde.
We didn’t hear anything about Merit.
May very well be that the Lassonde LLC acceptances are starting to come out (who knows if it’s somewhat rolling). We are also OOS, which may be a factor, and not from the UEW or whatever it is. We are East coast.
Do you think the U could be a good fit for a boy who is not outdoorsy?
I guess it depends on what he wants to do at weekends, given that its not really a place where you hang around and party (discretely is fine, but it is at least nominally a dry campus). Going for a walk up the hill or to swim in the hot springs seems to be the sort of thing people plan if they want to get together and have a Sunday afternoon to kill. There are some fraternities and sororities, but even there, the fraternities hold their big off campus formals in ski resorts like Telluride. I’m sure there are plenty of boys who get together to play computer games too, but I do think most people are open to spending time outdoors in one way or another (or at least it grows on them).
To give some examples, a friend’s S who went there to do business is enjoying it, he has ended up snowboarding a lot. Even people who are dancers and I wouldn’t have considered to be outdoorsy will do things like driving to Bryce for the day (4+ hours each way) to see the sunrise. Someone whose D wasn’t really outdoorsy spent her first spring break on an organized multi-day backpacking trip (in normal times one of the intro activities for freshmen that you can do before fall term starts in August is a 3 day backpacking trip).
Perhaps @JD7777 can chime in too (though it may be a bit different this year, especially if you don’t have a car).
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Just sharing that my son visited Utah last week and they have an outdoor visitor kiosk set up and a self tour packet available.They were able to check out the lobby areas of dorms but not the rooms themselves.The dorms are spectacular and there are excellent YouTube videos that show the rooms and what they are like. Campus and surrounding areas are immaculate. You won’t find a cleaner urban environment. He was able to get a good feel and of course enjoyed a day at Snowbird and Solitude. It’s a solid choice, if you can rise above the some of the quirks and culture of Utah. He didn’t cross it off. Still waiting on some other decisions.
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That’s good to know! We are visiting in 2 weeks.
What is interesting is that D2 is often trapper in her room, on a digital device (either doing animation, or on her phone, or online for remote school), but she WANTS to be more outdoors. Part of it is COVID, and part of it is lack of things to do where we live. She drives her car a half hour sometimes to a park to go for walks. She’s not a climber, a skier, a snowboarder, a mountain biker. But she loves gardening, hiking, sight-seeing … and playing video games 
She sounds like a very well balanced kid.
Us waiting to hear about scholarships…
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The website for the President’s Scholarship has changed. It still has a check mark for resident and non-resident, but when you click through it only shows resident. Also it looks like the amount has changed a bit. Here is an archived version.
Urgh.
At least in recent years, the President’s scholarship has always been virtually impossible to get as an OOS applicant. It appeared to require 4.0UW with 36 ACT or 1600 SAT (whereas instate applicants could get it with about 33-34 ACT). In a test optional year where they can’t set this minimum test score it seems likely that they simply won’t award any of these scholarships to OOS applicants. What’s harder to predict is the cutoff for the 1 and 4 year full tuition scholarships but they will probably need a 4.0UW.
Yeah, I’m more worried because the criteria is changing this late in the process.
Thank Goodness they lowered the GPA requirement to 3.5. 3.6 was tough on a +/- scale. This scholarship is very specific for instate students.