This thread is for the high school class of 2022 to discuss their Richmond admissions decisions.
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Date Applied:
Early/Regular:
Desired Major/School:
GPA:
SAT/ACT:
Rank:
APs/Honors:
Extras/Hooks:
State residency:
Date Notified:
Decision:
Any merit aid:
Any need aid:
1510 SAT 4.0 UW Instate
Deferred EA
Joke of a school (not actually im just salty lol)
My son deferred. 35 ACT, 4.5 weighted GPA at top public school in MD, two varsity sports, decent extracurriculars. Per Naviance should have been no question admission. Don’t get it.
Son deferred 4.1 W GPA and 35 ACT
could be a bit of yield protection going on. some of the small to mid size private schools defer quite a bit of high stats applicants for better optics of their admission stats
Accepted with presidential scholarship
3.74 ugpa
4.22wgpa
Deferred from EA, GPA 3.4 UW and 4.3 W, all honors through HS, amazing recommendations and personal statement was really good, I went test optional, part of a couple extracurriculars but im a big part of them.
accepted to university of richmond and i was selected as a presidential scholar!!
3.81 uw/4.8 w, top 10% - submitted act (had a 31), did not submit ap scores. i had nice involvement (co-editor of school paper with publications in local and state newspaper, debater all four years, founded model un, led community service project, did research that was published). the major i put on my application was global studies!
when i attended access richmond (the richmond’s fly-in program for urms), they gave my cohort an idea of the kind of person that gets the presidential scholar/richmond scholar award. the person who spoke to us was the dean/assistant dean of admissions (his name was gil), and he said that the scholars usually have strong extracurricular activities with leadership, and they usually do something outstanding. he gave us examples of the “something outstanding,” like published research, author of a book or many books, leads a big community service project, etc.
Son was deferred. We are OOS, did not submit test scores, varsity sport, 3.89. Senior grades, 4.0, plays music in hs, did not ask for aid.
I just counted up the responses so far and I’m seeing 7 accepted and 9 deferred (including one I am showing below.) But no denials so far. Was anyone denied? Or are they just deferring everyone?
To best share info, let’s use what is posted at the top of this thread. (This one is for someone I’m helping)
Date Applied: October
Early/Regular: Early
Desired Major/School: Business
GPA: low 90s unweighted, 100+ weighted
SAT/ACT: not submitted
Rank: Top 10% of class
APs/Honors: all honors and lots of dual enrollment (HS doesn’t really focus on AP)
Extras/Hooks: athlete with leadership (but not in college), family responsibilities, job, from small town area with low college attendance
State residency: upstate NY
Date Notified: 1/21/22
Decision: Deferred
Any merit aid: n/a
Any need aid: n/a
Gpa 4.2 ( IB school all her classes are IBs)
Live in nyc
No scores
Varsity soccer 5 years captain all star
Varsity bb
Varsity softball
Student athlete of the year
Japanese club
Senior committee
Club soccer for 9 years ( won national title in 2021)
Works as a ski instructor Mt snow for children
Ski race team 5 years
Working at Berkshire academy for girls soccer this summer
She got deferred from her ED Boston College
So this was a good one to get the entrance too !
Date Applied:10/28/21
Early/Regular: Early Action
Desired Major/School: Chemistry/A&S
GPA:3.97 UW/4.67 W
SAT/ACT:35
Rank: school does not rank
APs/Honors:14 honors (highest offered); accelerated in mathematics and Spanish
Extras/Hooks; teen leader at a non-profit for needy children one summer; worked on a diversity, equity and inclusion program for a world-class museum as a fellow another summer; involved in rare disease research led by an ivy institution summer after junior year and ongoing; Robotics captain, Mock trial captain, Model UN, FOCUS (Christian fellowship group at school); sports are fencing (non-ranked) and Ultimate (not a varsity team at his school); started a teen group at our church during Covid
State residency:PA
Date Notified: January 21, 2022
Decision: Accepted
Any merit aid: no
Any need aid:did not apply
Son was accepted! He’s thrilled. Stats:
3.9 GPA, 34 ACT. 11 APs. Computer Science dept award for his class two years in a row. No class rank as his school doesn’t do that. Varsity Tennis, NHS. Various clubs. habitat for Humanity, college summer class, SPCA volunteer, tech summer internship.
Deferred— honestly very surprised bc I never submitted my first quarter grades haha! Thought I would be rejected bc of that. 3.9 unweighted 4.25 weighted w/ lots of leadership. No scores submitted. UR is not one of my top choices so I’m pretty indifferent to it.
I was accepted with a 4.1 and 35. did you do an interview? i think my interest got me in. i sent emails and did an interview.
Date Applied: 10/26/21
Early/Regular: Early Action
Desired Major/School: Business
GPA: 98.2 W
SAT/ACT: 1520 (720 R 800 M)
Rank: n/a, top 10% of hs class
APs/Honors: 11 APs, 6 honors
Extras/Hooks: NM commended scholar? Otherwise none
State residency: NY metro area
Date Notified: 1/21/22
Decision: Accepted
Any merit aid: Presidential Scholarship
Any need aid: didn’t apply
Date Applied: 11/1
Early/Regular: Early Action
Desired Major/School: Journalism/School of Arts & Sciences
GPA: 3.8 UW, 4.17 W
SAT/ACT: 1390, submitted
Rank: 71/274, top 30%
APs/Honors: 1 AP, no honors, accelerated classes whenever possible
Extras/Hooks: None
State residency: NH
Date Notified: 1/21
Decision: Deferred
Any merit aid: N/A
Any need aid: N/A
Date Applied: 10/26/21
Type: early action
Desired school/major: Economics
GPA 3.461 UW, 4.28 W
SAT/ACT: did not submit
Rank: my school doesn’t rank
APs/ Honors: all honors throughout high school, (5 classes a year, one of them was 2 hours so it counted for 2)
Extras/Hooks: Mentor for incoming students all 4 years, Lead Mentor junior and senior year, Camp counselor twice, School News-team Leader, Heart4others for junior and senior year, student life team throughout high school, School advisory leader, helped with younger kids in grades 2-5 during sophomore year, tutored for French and Spanish, track and field during freshman year, was part of a business summer program at ASU, and built my own small invitation business.
State Residency: Arizona
Date Notified: 1/21/22
Decision: Deferred
Daughter accepted EA. Letter said 14,000 applicants (but that might have included EDs as well). No merit $ unfortunately.
4.8W/3.8 UW GPA, 4 APs
1500 SAT 760V/740M submitted
Lots of leadership
Well written, thoughtful essays
Excellent letters of recommendation
German TA, tutor, and mentor, awards won in German
Acapella, chorus, track, digital art
NHS and German NHS
Public 1500 student high school in Boston burbs
Son Business/CS
GPA 3.83/4.5
SAT 1520, ACT 34, ACTSS 35
11 APs
Post-AP Math this year: Multivar and DiffEq
2 Varsity Sports, tennis for 4 years, track for 2 years
City Youth Commission for 4 years
Investment club at school
Result: Accepted, no merit aid
Was hoping for at least 1/3
Unfortunately, not affordable…
Add just received the presidential scholarship too ! Yippie 