Can I get in to MHC? Please only answer if you are very familiar with MHC!

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“…wouldn’t divulge their method (for merit awards) to a student who called and asked…” Baloney. Asking a school about their critrea for merit awards (required materials, special apps, deadlines) is hardly taboo. Most schools are very up-front about what they value in prospective students.

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<p>Your comment doesn’t really make sense. Asking what materials they need isn’t asking for criteria. Criteria is what they use behind the scenes to make a decision. Admissions officers are professionals at fending off questions on the true criteria they use for merit aid awards at most schools. They want EVERYONE to apply, it is in their best interest to boost the number of applicants. So hinting that someone might not be competitive for merit for some reason is the last thing they will do. They will assure EVERY student that they will be considered. But you are very naive to think that they give merit to students who don’t boost their reputation in some way. There are a few exceptional ECs that they might see as something to boost their reputation. But significant merit isn’t going to student who don’t have something extra special to offer.</p>

<p>OP, on a completely different topic, have you discussed HOW your credits would be applied if they transfer? (I do feel a moment of deja vu, maybe we discussed this on a previous thread?). MHC has a pretty robust set of general graduation requirements (don’t recall what they are named there). You need to confirm what transfer credits can be applied to those and to your major. And make sure you don’t violate any rules about how many credits in your major have to be taken on campus, etc. There is a section on the MHC website you may have already seen:</p>

<p><a href=“https://www.mtholyoke.edu/registrar/transferap”>https://www.mtholyoke.edu/registrar/transferap&lt;/a&gt; </p>

<p>That tells you about will and won’t be accepted. But it doesn’t tell you how they can be applied to your actual graduation requirements, so I would look into that.</p>

<p>@momneedstono, I have always thought of the MHC forum as pretty genteel, kind of like the school. You don’t know as much as you think you do about admissions, and are quick to proclaim yourself an expert because your kid has been at MHC for more than 60 days. Plenty of people whose kids are graduating are still not very knowledgeable about how admissions, merit aid, etc. really work. You keep digging yourself deeper and deeper with your comments that aren’t based in any reality in the college admissions world. You are sure that because you don’t know how it works, no one knows. Which isn’t true.</p>