<p>We are in NJ. DD really wants to attend U of Delaware.
I think a 3.0 OOS does not have a good chance (zero chance?), is it true? are there any less competitive majors?
will in-state help? We are in NJ, we may be able to establish residence in DE, will in-state be a huge difference?</p>
<p>@annamom, is your daughter applying to UD for the fall of 2015? My understanding is that it takes over a year to establish residency and there are very specific requirements. Public colleges are very familiar with families trying to switch their residency for in-state tuition rates so they raise the bar pretty high for documentation.</p>
<p>If you Google the 2014 Common Data Set for UD, you will be able to see the stats for this year’s freshman class. That should give you and your daughter an idea of the stats required for admittance.</p>
<p>she is planning for Fall 2016. Husband has retired, hence we think it may be easy to move.
thanks for the information on common data set, it is very helpful, but it seems that the chance is not good. I assume it includes in-state as well</p>
<p>Perhaps the following from UD’s Admission website may be helpful.</p>
<p>The University of Delaware received 26,580 applications for its Fall 2014 freshman class:</p>
<p>Number of New Freshmen (Newark Campus)
4,179</p>
<p>Percent from minority groups
26%
(African American, Asian American, Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, Latino, Native American…and NRAs)</p>
<p>Number of Freshmen Delawareans (Newark Campus)
1,264 </p>
<p>The University of Delaware admits all Delawareans whose academic records predict success. Approximately 70% of the Delawarean applicants were offered admission to the Newark campus, and more than 20% were admitted to the Associate in Arts program at Georgetown, Dover, or Wilmington </p>
<p>Number of Out-of-State Freshmen
2,915</p>
<p>For the fall of 2014, 60% of the out-of-state students were admitted. Below are approximate ranges for grade point averages and the standardized test scores of the middle 50% of our out-of-state applicants who were offered Fall 2014 admission: </p>
<p>High School Grade Point Average (calculated in a 4.0 scale, academic courses only*): </p>
<p>Middle 50% of admitted freshmen
3.61 </p>
<p>Two year average for students admitted to the Honors Program
4.04*</p>
<p>SAT Reasoning Test (based on the best sub-scores from all tests taken): </p>
<p>Middle 50% of admitted freshmen
1815 </p>
<p>Three year average of students amitted to the Honors Program
2087* </p>
<p>Average ACT Composite (includes the ACT equivalents of SAT scores): </p>
<p>Average of admitted freshmen
27 </p>
<p>Three year average of students admitted to the Honors Program
31*</p>
<p>The above stats are not broken down by in-state verses OOS but I would say that as a general rule the numbers would be a little lower for in-state students. Good luck.</p>
<p>OOS results from our suburban NY HS for class of 2013, the most recently published I have, we had 14 applicants, all were accepted except two. The highest GPA was 102, the lowest was an 86. Lowest SAT score was 480/560/450,which was with the above lowest GPA. Were there other extenuating circumstances which the lowest SAT score above were given a boost for admissions such as race/gender/ athletics, I do not know. </p>
<p>samiamy, what does a GPA 86 mean in a 4.0 scale?</p>
<p><a href=“How to Convert (Calculate) Your GPA to a 4.0 Scale – BigFuture”>College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools;
<p>according to this an 83-86 is = 3.0</p>
<p>@annamom Not sure how easy it will be to establish residency, but it does make a huge difference. First, admissions to UD is pretty much automatic and it is non-competitive. And the other part is the in-state students get more grants and aide. Then of course there is the cheaper tuition. Graduating from a Delaware high school is important. Somewhere online are the specific requirements in establishing residency. I think you have to have residency when you apply… So could you get your child in a DE high school and apply this year? probably not. </p>
<p>Hi Airborne,</p>
<p>Are you sure it is automatic? I did read somewhere on the website that they gave preference to Delaware resident, but given what I read in the common data set. Based on the above, I think it said it admitted 70%</p>
<p>annamom… I believe the acceptance rate in Delaware is 90%… that being said not all of them are admitted to the Newark location, they must go to one of the other locations and/or community college and then if they prove themselves can transfer onto campus Jr year. So yes it’s most of UD student and many have stats far below us NJ OOS but it’s not a given. As far as residency… I believe you have to be established for a few years. Being I have two at the school… a bill of about $80K a year from UD was an incentive to buy something… It would be a no brainer for us to purchase something, especially since homes are so much less expensive in Delaware. By the time we purchased and waited it wouldn’t really help us. Plus EVERYTHING needs to be changed… drivers license, etc… As even in NJ for NJ schools there is a lot to prove to get in state tuition. </p>
<p>UD admittance for in-state applicants is not competitive. It is based on whether your child can hack it at main campus. They don’t even post the academic stats of in-state student acceptances. ( they might now, but they didn’t before ). </p>
<p>The worst case scenario is that your child has to do the 2 year community college and maintain a certain GPA, and then they are automatically accepted into the main campus. the upside is that the SEED program is free… </p>
<p>But I have seen friends of my D get into main campus with less than stellar stats… and horrible SAT scores. ( to the point where they were accepted at main campus but had to retake the SAT’s until they got above a specific score )…</p>
<p>The bigger deal is that your child is taking the highest level courses offered at the school… a 3.0 in AP courses matters more than a 3.0 in a non-college prep course level.</p>
<p>It might be worthwhile for you to call one of the high school guidance counselor’s at a Delaware high school and say you are moving to the state and have questions… or just say you are homeschooling and need to know about how it works with UD for in-state.</p>
<p>lefty1, We are thinking of retiring…
Airborne, the SEED program seems very good, <a href=“Undergraduate Admissions | University of Delaware”>Undergraduate Admissions | University of Delaware;
therefore a student get study in the SEED program for free and then transfer to the main campus. Is the SEED program automatic enrollment for any Delaware resident?</p>
<p>While they don’t call it such, there is essentially an “auto-admit” policy to UD for Delaware students. It’s called the “Commitment to Delawareans”. You can find it here: <a href=“First-Year In-State Students | University of Delaware”>First-Year In-State Students | University of Delaware; Scroll to the end. Essentially you have to take a college prep curriculum with at least 2 AP courses, have never received lower than a B- and have at least a B+ average. </p>
<p>I don’t know the particulars of establishing residency for in-state tuition purposes but I know that you don’t necessarily have to have graduated from a Delaware High School. I know several people who have attended boarding schools and commuted to PA High Schools who have attended UD as DE residents. I also know people who moved here while their kids were in High School who qualified as well.</p>
<p>@DEfour The “commitment to delawareans” is not 100%, in that not all Delaware schools offer AP courses, nor do all of them offer college prep for that matter. My D’s high school didn’t even offer languages other than english.</p>
<p>What it means is if you have that if you have that list. you are 100% in… but it does not mean if you don’t have it that you are not getting into UD. </p>
<p>My D didn’t have that list, in large part due to the school. ( killed her chances at UPenn ) . And friends of hers were well below 3.0 average.</p>
<p>There are alot of exceptions and odd cases to the residency… military for one… and kids of divorce… also if you move out of DE and have not established in-state where you moved, you are still considered DE residents… Moving into the state though is tricky… without the military exception, you have to be here 12 months… so moving in during the JR year of high school seems to be fine… but SR year… seems like it is not possible.</p>
<p>@annamom They say the SEED program is limited to funding, but I have not seen that, nor has the people I know who work at DelTech. The 2 issues are this… you have to do it right from high school, and you cannot take any breaks… you are done. The only other issue I could forsee is if they means test applicants due to funding constraints. I think as far as academic requirements, I am sure there is some bottom line with it. </p>
<p>That does not mean you cannot do the 2 year DelTech, then UD, just means you will have to pay for it… but DelTech is cheap, and I think they do a better job with the core requirement type stuff than UD. At DelTech your kid is always being instructed by a professor, at UD your kid is dealing with TA’s and professors. </p>
<p>I know if you have discipline problems or criminal stuff then you can’t do it. </p>
<p>The SEED program is popular with the kids that go through high school not motivated, and they never planned on going to college… so they never really applied themselves in high school. there are also the ones who were motivated but never did well… My D had friends who did this, not because they didn’t get accepted to UD, but because they had not even bothered to apply… they didn’t even take college prep courses in high school.</p>
<p>UD gives great financial aid to in-state students. especially the first 2 years. </p>
<p>@annamom </p>
<p>here are the basics of the SEED eligibility… </p>
<p>A new first-year student shall be admitted and attend classes full-time (12 credits or more) at Delaware Technical Community College no later than the fall semester immediately after the student’s graduation from a Delaware public or non-public high school.</p>
<p>To be eligible for the SEED Scholarship program, a student must satisfy Delaware residency requirements as set forth in Delaware Tech’s residency policy and be enrolled full-time on a degree-seeking basis. Students with a disability must comply with Delaware Tech’s academic accommodation policy.</p>
<p>A student shall have graduated from a Delaware public or non-public high school with a minimum cumulative average of either 80 or higher on a 100 point scale, a grade point average (GPA) of 2.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale as indicated on the student’s official high school transcript, or a letter grade of C+. Since high schools use different methods for reporting grades (letter, number or GPA), the minimum acceptable academic requirement shall be: GPA of 2.5, 80 for numerical and C+ for letter grade.</p>
<p>The equivalency standards for Delaware home-schooled students shall be a complete home schooled academic transcript, or a combined score of 1350 on the new SAT or a composite ACT score of at least 19.</p>
<p>@airborne - I think you and I are saying the same thing. The “Commitment to Delawareans” is what other schools call an “automatic admission” policy. That is: if you follow these guidelines, your admission is guaranteed. That does not mean that those that don’t meet the guidelines AREN’T admitted. It simply means that they are evaluated individually. </p>