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Did you hear about the honors program yet? I’m only asking cause I have not heard of anybody who has been accepted with the “you will be notified by late March” statement on their original acceptance letter. @rumorsareflying
After more than 18 weeks I finally got my acceptance, although it was for the Spring Semester. I was offered admission to the “spend your fall semester in D.C.” Does anyone know anything about this program?? Is it worth it
Last year UD offered a set of 3 options to some students. They included: 1. Wait List for Fall admission; 2. Spring Admission; 3. Attend the UD in DC Program at American Univ. and then move to UD in the Spring. Students offered these could choose any number of these options. The UD in DC Program is detailed on UD’s website. Last year UD had an overwhelming response to the UD in DC Program and had to cut off acceptances to it only after about 2 weeks (they only had 50 spaces available last year-I don’t know if it will be the same this year). Based on what happened last year I would recommend anyone who is seriously interested in this Program that they accept ASAP. Last year UD took in no students off the waitlist (for the second year in a row). Check out the website-it provides all the info you would need to be aware of about the UD in DC Program.Last year UD offered a set or 3 options to some students. They included wait li
One more thing. If a student is offered wait list placement for the Fall semester I would recommend that if a student really want to attend UD in the Fall that they accept the wait list placement ASAP. Unless things change this year the wait list is not ranked, but it is broken down by major applied to. So it is first come, first served, if UD does accept students off the wait list this year.
Has anyone who was still waiting heard anything? Still waiting here. My D has called, emailed, and her guidance counselor called as well. How can a decision not be made since November 14? Her portal has not been updated at all - still has everything checked off “received”. This is so frustrating. We were hoping to attend admitted students day on April 9th if she is accepted…
I hope the news is better for you but I called and took forever to get through. When I finally spoke to someone and asked about decisions coming out by the 1st the lady told me that wasn’t necessarily true! I was shocked she said this. She offered to look up my son’s name and told me a letter was on the way so I asked if she could see the decision could she just tell me since it was pretty important since we needed to proceed with back up plans if his # 1 was a no. She finally told me it was waitlist and we still have not received that letter. I think they knew a while ago and are just waiting till the last moment to notify. We have had no communication since his application was completed in November. I am a newbie to this process and pretty disgusted with how they are handling this. Hope you have better luck!
Quick question for JavaQueen. You were told a letter was on the way, but was your portal updated? I don’t understand their process. Some people have been saying the portal was updated first, other people are saying that they receive something in the mail before their portal shows any change. We are still waiting for news as well. I hate to be negative, but I really think they save all the bad news for last. I’ve heard that UDel is notorious for late notification, but this just seems unfair and unnecessary.
It appears that the most recent notifications applicants have been receiving from UD have included Spring Admission, UD in DC for the Fall and then move to UD in Spring, and Fall Wait list (at least from the posts on these boards). It is not clear if everyone receiving such notifications have been offered all these options, or just one/combo of them. Unfortuneately, IMHO, it would be my perspective that future outright acceptances for the Fall are probably going to be rare, if at all. I hope I am wrong. I would just recommend that if a student receives any of these offers, and really wants to attend UD, that they make a decision and act on it ASAP. For the last 2 years no students were taken in off the waitlist for Fall admission, but perhaps it might be different this year (UD may have reduced it’s total number of acceptances to avoid the problems they had with it the previous 2 years). In the past the waitlist was not ranked, but was broken down by major applied to, so the sooner an applicant accepts waitlist placement the better. The same idea is true for the UD in DC Program. They only had limited capacity in this Program (50 last year) and they had an overwhelming positive response to it last year (it filled up in less than 2 weeks). Just trying to be helpful. Best wishes to all those still waiting.
I just called the admissions office… still no update on my decision (whether its accept/deny/waitlist). The woman on the phone told me that all those who accept waitlist will have their applications reviewed again after May 1 when students already accepted put down their deposits. Waitlist acceptances aren’t determined by rank/major is what she told me… confused as to what it would be determined by then if they are going to review them all again as a whole after May 1st and not by first come first serve…
My son sent an email to his specific admissions rep this morning and was told they were still in the process of reviewing his application and should hear a final decision in MID-APRIL. He was asked to send any recent grades, test scores or letters of recommendation. His mid-year grades were sent in January. He has no other test scores, but he will try to get one more letter of recommendation sent ASAP.
No his portal was not udated with that info. We would still know nothing if I hadn’t pushed the person who answered to just tell me. It’s awful because I have not told my son because don’t want him to know I meddled so he is still waiting…they could at least get the darn letter out. I am not holding out hope for getting in off the waitlist.
I too spoke with admissions on Monday. They said they are trying to get all decisions out this week but it may be extended into next week. I said many of us are under pressure to commit to another school to ensure we receive our first choice for housing and to drag this out for 5 months is just unkind. While she apologized, they just do not care. I think all the pending decisions are waitlist as it is near impossible to plan and attend admitted students day at this late stage. Thoroughly disgusted with udel and their dysfunctional admissions process.
Hi I applied 17 Weeks ago almost 18 weeks now and I STILL haven’t heard anything. Delaware was my number choice before this whole fiasco but I’m so mad at this point that I don’t even know if I want to go… Any insight into this situation??? I applied the last week of November and my app was completed December 1
17 weeks of waiting for us too. The University of Delaware should change the response time from “8-12 weeks” to “sometime before April 1st” for decisions. Cannot turn back the clock now, but there is something everyone can do…Simply author an E-mail and/or call one of the Assistant Provost contacts below. Admissions either does not care to change, or they cannot change the policies & procedures. So, I suggest everyone go directly to the Administrative staff. Contact information is below. Good luck to everyone.
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Assistant to the Provost
Joan Stock
302-831-2260
joans@udel.edu
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Assistant to the Deputy Provost for Academic Affairs and Associate Provost/Chief of Staff
Rita Scott
302-831-2147
rascott@udel.edu
Assistant to the Vice Provost for Diversity and Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs
Dana Perry
302-831-2101
dlperry@udel.edu
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t the premise behind rolling admissions that applications are reviewed when they are received rather than waiting for a deadline? The fact that many are waiting 17+ weeks for a decision is unethical on the part of UDEL, especially when it appears on this forum that some who applied later have received decisions. They should not call their admissions “rolling”. I agree with Investigator1 that while it is too late for this year for changes to be made to their admission policy, contacting administration might just spare other families the same turmoil in the future.
UDEL is my D’s number one choice and she is holding out making a final decision until she hears from them.
U Del uses rolling admissions? I don’t remember seeing that anywhere. As far as we knew, there was one application deadline of January 15 and decisions came out by April 1. I may be remembering wrong. In any event, letting people know beyond April 1 is problematic since people want to make school visits and need time to make decisions before May 1.
Well I got rejected from Penn, my top choice since I was 6. Still waiting on UD… past week 24 somewhere, I stopped keeping track
I’m sure this is late, but I wanted to wait on replies from other schools before posting.
- Application deemed complete day before honors deadline (I don't remember the date of the top of my head).
- Honors admission
- Major accepted into: Business Undeclared but most likely going to switch into Econ
- SAT: 2100 GPA: 88/100 ~ 3.3 (extremely rigorous and selective private high school in NY) Rank: 80/421 students
- All honors classes, school doesn't provide AP classes
- Merit scholarship amount: $8,000 presidential scholarship + $2,900 grant
- Odds of attending UD: 80% bc Financial packages from more selective schools were less favorable.
- Hooks: First Gen. American, First Gen. to go to college in family, Trilingual, Compitive pianist at Carnegie hall and Lincoln Center, Had previous job and internship experience in business fields, Represented state of New York as Captain of Varsity Ltwt rowing team at nationals in Florida, hundreds of hours of volunteering etc.