Did anyone get accepted as a "January Scholar"?

CCpost
Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:50:03 +0000

wbwa, sorry to not get back to you sooner. I do not have, and never claimed to have, an exhaustive list of schools that offer January spots to students. I simply claim, and stand by the fact, that over the years I personally know of many students at a variety of schools (some universities, some colleges, some top 25, some not) who have been offered a spot in January at one of the schools they applied to. I am reluctant to post names of schools from memory, as I do not have the time or desire to start calling families to reconfirm my memory about where these students went. Without doing that, I take the chance of posting incorrect information which I am not willing to do. However, I am 100% positive that the students I am thinking of started second semester in their freshman year.

I think the reason you have never heard of it before is that while some schools specifically offer students the opportunity to apply for January admission, others do not advertise it but still offer it to a limited number of students. My guess is that they don’t advertise it or they would be inundated with thousands and thousands of applicants from students who were rejected or waitlisted and ultimately not accepted–but, again, that is just my guess.

In my opinion, which other schools offer limited January admission doesn’t really matter. Wash U does. Some people got offered a spot, most people didn’t. No one is required to attend.