<p>Any of your kids going to Southern Methodist Uni? UIUC?</p>
<p>Daughter
3.6 GPA Weighted/unweighted 1860 SAT
Accepted to all she applied to
UVM
Willamette
Knox
Earlham
Hendrix
Lewis and Clark
Pitzer
Oberlin I(attendingâshe is there NOW!)</p>
<p>Great thread. Watching with interest.</p>
<p>Son, 3.6 GPA, 34 ACT, NROTC scholarship recipient for the University of Minnesota unit. Accepted everywhere he applied.</p>
<p>Macalester (attending)
Carnegie Mellon
Case Western Reserve
Pitt
UW-Madison
UM-Twin Cities
Kalamazoo
American
Loyola-Chicago
Seattle U
Miami of Ohio</p>
<p>^ S1732 - Any reason you guys turned down CMU? Why apply in the first place?</p>
<p>^ CMU was sonâs first choice school, but he couldnât transfer his NROTC scholarship there since the unit was already full when he got his CMU acceptance and there was a 15+ student waiting list for spots in the unit. CMUâs financial aid wasnât good ($12,000 gap in aid) and we couldnât swing it financially w/o the NROTC scholarship. As an International Studies major, Macalester (combined with the NROTC experience at UM-Twin Cities) is a good fit for him. Macalesterâs aid is very good, so s can afford to attend even w/o the Navy paying for tuition/fees/books.</p>
<p>Anyway, one of those tough choices that everyone has to makeâŠ</p>
<p>child graduated in '07
3.5 (weighted and unweighted)
1400 superscored m/v, 1340 single sitting
accepted and attending U of Chicago
accepted: Honors program at State University and Boston University
waitlisted: JHU (legacy)
rejected: Oberlin</p>
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Supports my JHU courtesy waitlist theory⊠;)</p>
<p>The CMU and Chicago acceptances will get everybody excited over on the âless than 3.6 GPA and applying to top-20â thread</p>
<p>paperchaserpop_ just a friendly reminder that kids choose a school for all sorts of reasons not neccessarily related to moneyâŠyour post #12 or prestige you post #25. </p>
<p>I think the intent of this thread is to show where the B students on CC have been accpeted; not to critique or editorialize re. their ultimate choices.</p>
<p>newenglandparent - Congrats on the UChicago matriculation. What what your childâs EC like? Was there a hook? What is the major?</p>
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<p>Please donât get me wrong, my questions were not meant to critique. I was just curious about the decisions and the factors that may be at play here.</p>
<p>No offense taken here. It is always interesting and enlightening to hear about the college journeys taken by other families. The process is not an easy one or as straight-forward as it seems it should be (i.e. your kid gets into a top 20 university, obviously he will go there).</p>
<p>S1732, I will be interested to hear how your S likes Mac!</p>
<p>Plus, Iâve always wondered how that ROTC thing works. We had a kid at our high school who had an ROTC scholarship that really complicated her college situation. She had the scholarship, found schools that had space in their unit but she didnât get accepted into those colleges, got accepted into colleges that had the kind of engineering she insisted she must have but the unit had a waiting list, got accepted into colleges that had good engineering programs and space in their unit but not the kind of engineering she wanted. I didnât understand what the heck was going onâso I appreciate your explanation.</p>
<p>I never did hear the end of the story of the above-mentioned studentâŠ</p>
<p>This probably belongs in another thread, so I apologize for putting it here. </p>
<p>Ellemenope, I can only speak about Navy ROTC, but youâre right that the scholarship process can really complicate things during the college process. This is how NROTC works:</p>
<p>Ideally, NROTC scholarship applicants submit their applications late in the summer/early fall of their senior year in high school. They list five NROTC units on their applications and rank them. Obviously, the student has probably not even applied to schools at this point. And getting a scholarship to a school does not assure admission. My son put Macalester (as a cross-town affiliate of UW-Minnesota) as his number 1 choice and CMU as number 2 because he did not think he would get accepted at CMU. I believe he listed UW-Madison, Miami of Ohio, and Loyola-Chicago as well. </p>
<p>Beginning in late summer, the NROTC scholarship board meets monthly (or thereabouts) to evaluate scholarship apps. Iâm not certain if they can only approve a certain number of scholarhips each month, but applications that âdonât meet the cutâ are passed on to the next board. This continues through March or April, I believe. In my sonâs case, his application went through several boards and he finally received his scholarship in late February, about the same time college acceptances were rolling in. (He is not an engineering major, so was at a big disadvantage in the NROTC pool). He was awarded the scholarship to the University of Minnesota unit or any of its affiliates (Macalester & University of St. Thomas). He requested a transfer to the CMU unit, but was denied because the unit was already full with students who received their scholarship awards during earlier boards. That may be want happened with the student you spoke of. </p>
<p>About MacalesterâŠso far (and school hasnât started), we have been more than impressed with the school. They are understanding of the complexities that NROTC will add to my sonâs life (needs to have a car to get to classes at UMN, needs to move in early in order to go to NROTC orientation, can take very limited courses on T/TH because those are the days that NROTC classes/activities take place). The head of his major department has worked with son this summer to come up with a four year major plan that will ensure that he gets it all done - IS major, language minor, semester abroad, NROTC requirements at UMN. And finally, MACs treatment of the NROTC scholarship funds (treated as an outside scholarship) was more than fair. I thought that son would lose all financial aid because his tuition was covered by the Navy, but I was pleasantly surprised in the end. So, yes, so far we love MAC. Hopefully, son will too. </p>
<p>OKâŠnext list of successes for kids in the 3.3 to 3.6 range.</p>
<p>My sonâs GPA was a little over 3.6, but it was his art/music classes that brought it over. I would guess that his core GPA was closer to 3.3. His ACT was 33. That said:</p>
<p>Accepted:
Carnegie Mellon (like S1732, this was his 1st choice, but could not attend due to large gap in financial aid)
UBuffalo
Rhodes
Tulane
Wooster
Drexel
UPittsburgh
York College of PA
Hobart</p>
<p>Transfer Option:
Cornell</p>
<p>Rejected:
WashU</p>
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<p>Darn right! :)</p>
<p>Thanks, S1732âthat is complicated! Now back to the previously scheduled threadâŠ</p>
<p>I would like to say that I donât think there are matches for anyone anymore â just safeties and reaches.</p>
<p>I know not everyone agrees with me, but my kidsâ admissions results convinced me of that. They were rejected at some âlowerâ schools and accepted at some âhigherâ schools, so my advise would now be to apply to some safeties and cast the next wide for schools the student really likes and forget about a three tiered approach.</p>
<p>Just my experience. Feel perfectly free to disregard.</p>
<p>S graduated in '07
SAT - 2060
GPA - about 3.8
Accepted:
UCSD, UCD, UCSB, UCSC, Santa Clara, U. of San Francisco, USD, U. of Puget Sound
Rejected:
Stanford, Harvey Mudd, UCB, UCLA
Attending:
USF</p>