Your Favorite Rolling / EA Colleges

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Minnesota.

I think they call it EA, but they issue decisions on a rolling basis. My son applied last Year, in mid October, and was accepted in about 2 weeks. They also gave some nice merit.

We visited, and it is a nice school. Strong for CS. My son seriously considered it, but decided on Pitt.

Great option though!

Why did he choose Pitt?

A few reasons. I think he preferred Pitt’s urban campus. Minn is in TC, but has a pretty traditional big school campus. That could be a plus but not what my son was looking for. He also prefers Pittsburgh as a city.

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Anonymous wrote:I think the only rolling admissions school my son applied to was Duquesne. I think he heard back from them 2-3 weeks later (by mid October). That was nice. We still had to wait for the FA award which came 2-3 months later.

As far as EA, he applied everywhere EA and heard from every school by mid January (most before XMAS). The only one that sent the FA award with the acceptance was Loyola MD and that is where he is going. Great merit money!

Nice job! By any chance, did he go to a Catholic high school? Mine did, and we were amazed by the generous merit money he received at several Catholic colleges.

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Juniata

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So smart to include a rolling admit school. We visited Univ of MN. They admitted, then gave a scholarship a few weeks later, then honors college. It was a great fall boost. And we know kids who attended and liked, so it was somewhere DC would have been ok going if options were limited.

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Auburn isn’t “rolling” per se, but they admit in batches throughout the fall. They’ll specify the deadlines for each decision date.

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Pitt is probably the hottest one in the mid-Atlantic right now.

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I 2nd University of Oregon.

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U of West Virginia. And they have a chart on their website showing exactly how much merit aid they award based on GPA and test scores and a test optional chart for those who apply TO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the only rolling admissions school my son applied to was Duquesne. I think he heard back from them 2-3 weeks later (by mid October). That was nice. We still had to wait for the FA award which came 2-3 months later.

As far as EA, he applied everywhere EA and heard from every school by mid January (most before XMAS). The only one that sent the FA award with the acceptance was Loyola MD and that is where he is going. Great merit money!

Nice job! By any chance, did he go to a Catholic high school? Mine did, and we were amazed by the generous merit money he received at several Catholic colleges.

Yes he did. I was so relieved that I wasn’t going to have to eat ramen for the next 4 yrs to pay for college.

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Anonymous wrote:U of West Virginia. And they have a chart on their website showing exactly how much merit aid they award based on GPA and test scores and a test optional chart for those who apply TO.

This is probably a dumb question but is university of West Virginia the same as WVU?

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Michigan State
Minnesota

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:U of West Virginia. And they have a chart on their website showing exactly how much merit aid they award based on GPA and test scores and a test optional chart for those who apply TO.

This is probably a dumb question but is university of West Virginia the same as WVU?

Yes, there is no University of West Virginia - the pp was surely referring to WVU in Morgantown.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think the only rolling admissions school my son applied to was Duquesne. I think he heard back from them 2-3 weeks later (by mid October). That was nice. We still had to wait for the FA award which came 2-3 months later.

As far as EA, he applied everywhere EA and heard from every school by mid January (most before XMAS). The only one that sent the FA award with the acceptance was Loyola MD and that is where he is going. Great merit money!

Nice job! By any chance, did he go to a Catholic high school? Mine did, and we were amazed by the generous merit money he received at several Catholic colleges.

Yes he did. I was so relieved that I wasn’t going to have to eat ramen for the next 4 yrs to pay for college.

Yes! DCUM is a real pain about some of these schools, but I love them. Good for you, and good for your kid!

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The University of Iowa has a very fast turnaround. I think my DS was accepted less than a week after he applied in September of last year. And there's a handy calculator you can use to see whether you will be accepted. He didn't choose to go there or the other EA/Rolling schools that accepted him, but it was a huge relief to know he had choices even before the other applications were due.

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Anonymous wrote:The University of Iowa has a very fast turnaround. I think my DS was accepted less than a week after he applied in September of last year. And there's a handy calculator you can use to see whether you will be accepted. He didn't choose to go there or the other EA/Rolling schools that accepted him, but it was a huge relief to know he had choices even before the other applications were due.

Here is the calculator in case you're interested: https://www.iowaregents.edu/institutions/higher-education-links/regent-admission-index/rai-calculator