2026 acceptances

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD’s going to college! In at Macalester with $35k/year merit. We’re relieved and excited! Strong stats (4.0UW, all 5s on APs, 1550 and 35) but rejected from ED school.

DD added an acceptance from St. Olaf today with $37k. Woo hoo! Choices. Happy holidays, all.

Total price is....??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD’s going to college! In at Macalester with $35k/year merit. We’re relieved and excited! Strong stats (4.0UW, all 5s on APs, 1550 and 35) but rejected from ED school.

DD added an acceptance from St. Olaf today with $37k. Woo hoo! Choices. Happy holidays, all.

Total price is....??

COA this year is $77k, so $40k-ish? Maybe $42k with a tuition increase?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD’s going to college! In at Macalester with $35k/year merit. We’re relieved and excited! Strong stats (4.0UW, all 5s on APs, 1550 and 35) but rejected from ED school.

DD added an acceptance from St. Olaf today with $37k. Woo hoo! Choices. Happy holidays, all.

Total price is....??

COA this year is $77k, so $40k-ish? Maybe $42k with a tuition increase?

And that’s about $4k more than our best in-state options.

[Anonymous]

UMN Engineering!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For Macalester, what HS courses (esp curious about if kids need Honors AP in all 5 "solids" and 4 years of Foreign Language to get into Mac. Does have strong grades and strong APs in history/Eng. 32 ACT.

My kid who got in EA had APs in all 5 (I assume you mean math, science, English, history, and FL) but I don’t think it’s strictly necessary.

Do you mind sharing SAT? Macalester is one of DC's favs but will be applying RD...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For Macalester, what HS courses (esp curious about if kids need Honors AP in all 5 "solids" and 4 years of Foreign Language to get into Mac. Does have strong grades and strong APs in history/Eng. 32 ACT.

My kid who got in EA had APs in all 5 (I assume you mean math, science, English, history, and FL) but I don’t think it’s strictly necessary.

Do you mind sharing SAT? Macalester is one of DC's favs but will be applying RD...

1550 and 35.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Accepted Case Western with $31K merit
Accepted Drexel with $37.5K merit

Both tonight

Oh interesting - Where did you see the Drexel merit info? In the acceptance letter itself or elsewhere?

There was a tab for financial aid and scholarships on the main screen. Took a long minute to load up but once it did it showed what was offered.

Thank goodness for this thread - I just had my daughter look at her Drexel portal and we discovered she was offered a $37k merit scholarship annually that we had completely missed!

She’s also been admitted to Pace Westchester + honors college with $37k annual, as well as Towson Honors, Temple, an Rutgers Camden. Nursing at Drexel, Rutgers, pre-nursing Temple and Towson, Health Sciences at Pace.

Still waiting for Delaware, Rutgers NB, Pitt, NYU.

Deferred at NYU.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Accepted Case Western with $31K merit
Accepted Drexel with $37.5K merit

Both tonight

Oh interesting - Where did you see the Drexel merit info? In the acceptance letter itself or elsewhere?

There was a tab for financial aid and scholarships on the main screen. Took a long minute to load up but once it did it showed what was offered.

Thank goodness for this thread - I just had my daughter look at her Drexel portal and we discovered she was offered a $37k merit scholarship annually that we had completely missed!

She’s also been admitted to Pace Westchester + honors college with $37k annual, as well as Towson Honors, Temple, an Rutgers Camden. Nursing at Drexel, Rutgers, pre-nursing Temple and Towson, Health Sciences at Pace.

Still waiting for Delaware, Rutgers NB, Pitt, NYU.

Deferred at NYU.

Congratulations!!! This is so great!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:[twitter]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Accepted Case Western with $31K merit
Accepted Drexel with $37.5K merit

Both tonight

Oh interesting - Where did you see the Drexel merit info? In the acceptance letter itself or elsewhere?

There was a tab for financial aid and scholarships on the main screen. Took a long minute to load up but once it did it showed what was offered.

Thank goodness for this thread - I just had my daughter look at her Drexel portal and we discovered she was offered a $37k merit scholarship annually that we had completely missed!

She’s also been admitted to Pace Westchester + honors college with $37k annual, as well as Towson Honors, Temple, an Rutgers Camden. Nursing at Drexel, Rutgers, pre-nursing Temple and Towson, Health Sciences at Pace.

Still waiting for Delaware, Rutgers NB, Pitt, NYU.

Deferred at NYU.

Oops…I meant deferred at Georgetown…

Congratulations!!! This is so great!

[Anonymous]

University of South Carolina Honors Program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:University of South Carolina Honors Program.

That’s awesome. My kid is there now as a Capstone scholar and just loves the place. It’s a great amount of merit aid too. (Honors is even more than capstone!)

[Anonymous]

School of the Art Institute of Chicago with $22k/year merit
Pratt Institute with $27k/year merit

Waiting on RISD

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:School of the Art Institute of Chicago with $22k/year merit
Pratt Institute with $27k/year merit

Waiting on RISD

Only art schools?

Any colleges with Visual Art programs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:School of the Art Institute of Chicago with $22k/year merit
Pratt Institute with $27k/year merit

Waiting on RISD

Only art schools?

Any colleges with Visual Art programs?

Mostly art schools. Also accepted at VCU Arts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DD’s going to college! In at Macalester with $35k/year merit. We’re relieved and excited! Strong stats (4.0UW, all 5s on APs, 1550 and 35) but rejected from ED school.

DD added an acceptance from St. Olaf today with $37k. Woo hoo! Choices. Happy holidays, all.

Total price is....??

COA this year is $77k, so $40k-ish? Maybe $42k with a tuition increase?

And that’s about $4k more than our best in-state options.

But:
1) the $77k doesn’t include flights, which really add up, especially for family going to help set up freshman year and fir graduation.
2) It’s St. Olaf, not UVA.