UD doesn’t track interest. schools that track interest ask for a letter or ask you to fill out a form to see if you want to remain in the decision pool (Fordham, Vermont, etc). That being said it can’t hurt.
Question to those who have applied for Honor college - can you explain why and what you see as the benefits? My D is accepted already for engineering but is showing no interest in applying for Honors college as thinks it just means more work and for what benefit? What should I tell her?
@stepl100 DEFINITELY apply for honors!! My daughter is a current honors engineering freshman. Definitely a great freshman dorm, priority registration for classes (a HUGE benefit at a large school like UD), and countless other opportunities. My daughter has secured a really neat research opportunity already as a freshman. The workload isn’t that much more and honors kids have access to writing fellows and Munson fellows to help them adjust to college/honors academic life. Plus, if you decide it’s not for you, then you can drop out of the program, but if you don’t start out in the program I’m not sure how easy it would be to transfer in. It’s a neat community of kids and my daughter is involved in plenty outside of the honors college so she’s not in any kind of “bubble” either. Best of luck to your daughter and yay for another engineer! 
If he goes to class, goes to office hours, and utilizes all the help offered by the University he should be able to keep a 3.0. Freshman year engineering has a bit of a “weed out” mentality to it but as long as you put in the effort it seems doable. My freshman engineering daughter was definitely stressed and college is a HUGE adjustment, but she did great first semester because she put in the work. I think she may have some PTSD from chemistry and comp sci, though lol. Also, I think 3.0 is pretty standard at any school for scholarships.
D got the 17k trustee. Really Liked Del. the doctorate for dpt is main reason for going. Turned down honors. Would honors increase the merit award? What’s their highest merit award level. Can’t find it on the website. Quinnipiac offered more and money towards doctorate. Only sch that offered doctorate merit. Can she appeal at Delaware ?
@sunnryz Thanks. 3.0 seems like a fairly common GPA to maintain a scholarship. Lots of factors to consider in this process. UD is a great school. I’m happy my DS has some nice options so far.
alright, thank you! 
@Egellocisthemove You can always appeal, and I have no experience with UDel specifically, but state schools rarely budge. Also, you need to look at the total COA, not how much an individual school offered. QU may have offered more because it’s a more expensive school (my D20 was also admitted to QU with larger merit but it’s still more expensive). Both great schools, and no decisions yet. Good luck with your decision.
One other thing to think about…we appealed at a school for my D17, and they were willing to increase their award if D17 accepted on the spot. Be prepared for that sort of response, just in case.
@blazerkitty5 I would definitely send the letter of continued interest and share the information you posted. In my opinion, your daughter has nothing to lose.
Exited DD was accepted to the pre physician assistant program but no merit. Outstanding EC, volunteer hours, PT job, ranked top 10% of her class, took mostly honors classes and 4 AP and 4.0 GPA but did terrible on SAT (3x) scores 1190 and ACT 26 I’m sure she won’t qualified for FA Probably all loans
Congrats to all
Got accepted 1/10, received merit today. Trustees scholarship $17k a year. 1390 SAT and University Studies (undeclared) major
Applied 12/6/19. Last updated date changed almost daily for a few weeks and now has been on 1/12/20 with no movement. Has this happened to anyone? Status has been “awaiting decision” since 1 week after submission. Stats are well above range.
Anyone know if they’re done notifying EA’s? DS applied RD and hasn’t heard anything…10 weeks.
@MThopeful2022 I don’t know, but I do know that they have until January 31st to notify all early action applicants.
@MThopeful2022 End Feb - End March
Does anyone know when the next round of acceptances come out?
Hey does anyone know if Delaware takes updated extracurricular/achievement letters when you’ve been deferred? I’ve recently been deferred and Delaware is my top.
It’s been 8 weeks for my daughter who applied to the nursing program. Keeping our fingers crossed because we know it’s competitive!!
@jordync12 - I don’t think it can hurt. My older DD was deferred from 3 schools. And, she wrote continued interest emails to her admission counselors…and was ultimately accepted at the 3 schools. Good luck!!
They took mine, but I’m still waiting on a decision. I wasn’t deferred.