I am confused on this as well. We setup her auburn email. But it still shows “awaiting” on activating auburn student account as well as “awaiting” on duo. But we did both of those. Maybe it has to update overnight? Or are we missing something?
My daughter (AU c/o '27) was accepted EA 1 and received her scholarship notification on Nov 15. She received the in state Founders scholarship, which was we expected from charts that year.
My daughter was accepted TO. OOS EA2. 3.9/4.0 WGPA.
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My son was accepted in last night’s EA2 round.
OOS (US citizen applying from int’l school in Europe)
3.5 uw
29 ACT
9 AP’s (4’s and 5’s on 4 AP classes completed through 11th grade)
Public Administration major
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Yes, I believe all deferred students received the same information to submit. He submitted his optional essay a few weeks ago. He’s also requested 2 additional letters of recommendation, updated his resume, and will request mid-year grades be sent in January. He will not test again for a few reasons. He loves Auburn, but has a few other options he’d be happy with too. Waiting until March is hard, but there are many schools that release decisions later than that.
I’m not reading the entire thread again, but I feel like I saw several post acceptances EA1 with SAT 1280 and above and ACT seems like 28 was the magic number. There may be other factors, but we’ll never know. Good luck to your student too!
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My daughter’s STILL says that and she was accepted last month.
Okay, good to know! Do you have to wait then for them to send you the email about the housing thing?
Yes. My daughter got her housing email on 10-25 or 10-28. That had the link for her to complete her housing and the date and time she could apply.
FYI you can see exactly what AU considers for admissions in Early Action in the Common Data Set…Early Action is GPA, test scores and rigor. That’s it. They have updated criteria for Regular Decision this year, per the admissions website.
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Same. My Class of 2026 student also got merit for a 32 ACT mid November……I wish AU still did it that way. It seems since last year only the highest tiers are awarded in November, with the lower tiers awarded in the later rounds. I think this is a reflection of higher stats (especially for OOS) impacting admissions since 2022 (also when Auburn went on the Common App). They are waiting to see what EA1, 2 and 3 students look like in terms of test scores. This caused an absolute uproar last year, especially.
It will be interesting to see what the EA2 stats were. Will they be reporting that as they did with EA1?
Based on comments above, assuming EA3 may not be eligible for highest merit awards. That’s disappointing.
Auburn does make that risk clear on their website. On the (possibly) positive side, Auburn says ‘each class competes with itself’ for merit awards, so things could be different than prior years.
Thanks for sharing that’s helpful. It’s the first time I’ve seen a lower test score acceptance but an amazing GPA!! We are keeping our fingers crossed that my deferred D eventually gets in. Her spirits are high and she’ll keep working hard. Congrats!!
We didn’t have Auburn on the list of applications at first, so that’s on us. We missed the EA2 deadline as the SAT didn’t post until after the required materials deadline. Our most likely schools we are still waiting to hear from, so between December and February is our expected timeframe.
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AU appears to update the stats of admitted/deferred/denied averages after each round. I don’t think it will reflect EA2 stats as stand alone numbers, rather those stats factor into the overall average of admitted students. The website still shows 10/11/24 as the date on the bottom left corner, so it does not look like the stats have been updated to include EA2 quite yet.
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My OOS daughter 1240 / 3.97 was deferred as well. Retaking SAT in December and will submit mid year senior grades. What GPA and SAT score did your son’s friends have? I’ve only seen one low SAT of 1250 and a high GPA be accepted and one 3.4 but an SAT score over 1300 accepted. Appears over 1300 are being accepted. Good luck to your son!
Wondering if it also depends on the major for those with over 1300 that were accepted.
S25 accepted. Preferenced Harbert but haven’t asked if he was directly admitted there or as pre-bus. Of the 3 places he’s gotten into so far, I think Auburn’s probably tied for #1, with 8 more to go.
For data purposes, he carries about a 3.75, around the top 40% of his class at a low grade-inflation, competitive Jesuit school in the Midwest, good student but not the typical for College Confidential uber high-stat academic striver profile, and a 30 ACT. His h.s.'s Naviance indicates Auburn was pretty much a slam dunk for the 8-10 kids who applied most years prior to 2021, and has moved to about a 40% acceptance rate since, with 3x the yearly applicants now. No one with a 28 or higher ACT (that’s reported back to Naviance) shows as deferral or rejection - the scatterplot for Auburn makes it very clear that test scores matter, possibly more than grades. One kid in recent years went test optional with a GPA that would have placed them summa cum laude and was rejected; a few others with GPA’s close to the median have been accepted as long as they submitted a 29 or higher.
Acceptance notification was kind of funny: we were visiting D23, now a sophomore in college nowhere near the state of Alabama, this weekend. Took her and a bunch of friends to dinner, and one of them had a high school friend in town from…Auburn, of course! She talked the place up all night, and as we were dropping them back off at the dorms our son got his portal update. So he got to (was forced to!) open it in front of his entire family and 10 college girls including one who went to Auburn, and a cheer erupted across campus. Fun time.
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Good point. Unfortunately I don’t think they break down the scores by major. I wish they did