Congrats on UF. You have a fine option there!
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Sorry my quote feature isnât working tonight.
NMF will cover more than COA at UF. You get room and board, $600 for books, and I think a $2000 study abroad stipend. If you get any other awards theyâll stack.
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Congrats on UF!!!
I wouldnât even try to analyze the Honors decisions. From everything Iâve heard, itâs pretty capricious and honestly not that important. My friendâs kid never managed to crack honors at UF, and still sailed directly into an HYP PhD program after UF and never felt theyâd missed anything by not being in Honors.
Fingers crossed for the super-reachy round of decisions! Great that a better-than-free education at UF is now locked in; thatâs a pretty great âworst case scenario!â
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This is really wild. Thanks!! UF becomes a really competitive option when I factor in all the NMF benefits.
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I just realized that a âspikeâ in mycology probably has like zero relation to my interest of Comp. Eng. Do colleges prefer to see people develop their main area of interest in-depth, or is the value mostly placed on doing something in-depth? (e.g., lots of interest and achievement in a hobby, but mostly just well-rounded in what would be my major)
It depends on the school.
For schools that want a connection to major that is generally known informationâŠvia admission sessions and/or how the supplemental essay is worded.
IMO, your courses and activities like the ML algorithm and engineering research internship, even the gaming club, support a comp engineering major. Do you see it differently?
Regardless, things are out of your control now. I know the waiting can be difficultâŠgood luck with the rest of your decisions!
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Youâre right. Thanks for the info! Im hoping at least I can scrape enough info from my own app cycle to give to our juniors at school and my siblings.
Rejected MIT. This sucks. It probably sucks more than my two options right now are to grit my teeth and feel like I should have complained or complain and feel like I should have grit my teeth and moved on.
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Looks like the 28th is gearing up to be quite a day, though. Iâll be somewhere in North Carolina waiting for NYU, Columbia, Brown, and Princeton. Georgia Tech will be coming out next Friday. (though I canât afford it, anywayâŠ)
Youâre an amazing student. Amidst this stressful time, donât forget Tulsa. We will probably have 300-400 NMFs at TU next year, in a class of around 1000.
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I think itâs amazing how accessible and welcoming you are. I just want to make sure I am interpreting this correctly.
Are you anticipating 30-40% of the incoming class to be NMF or 300-400 total NMFs across the entire student population?
What do you anticipate Tulsaâs NMF percentage of total undergrad population to be and or in absolute numbers how many undergrads at Tulsa will be NMF?
Thanks in advance for clarifying.
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For our incoming class, Iâm expecting 300 minimum NMFs out of about 1000 overall 1st years. We have 700 admits who are NMFs, and we historically have yielded about 45%.
The current first year class is about 25% NMFs (152 NMFs out of 600 or so first years).
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Would Tulsa still accept an application from @sparkling_water ?
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Iâm sure it could be arranged. He had mentioned Tulsa before in a post - so I thought he might have already applied. But if not, DM me!
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@sparkling_water Making sure that you see the posts above by @PresCarsonTulsa, who is the president of the University of Tulsa. My understanding is that Tulsa offers great merit packages to NMSF and NMF students, and the posts above indicate that about 30% of the incoming class will likely be NMFs, so clearly youâd be in great company academic-wise.
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Congratulations on making Tulsa such an attractive and affordable option for NMF kids who want to be surrounded by similar kids. It appears at this pace you will soon surpass 1,000 NMFs (of a total population of approx 4,000 students) and ultimately approach 30% of your students being NMFs.
That means you will have 10x the âdensityâ of NMF compared to the University of Alabamaâs 2.88% (1,142/39,623). Notable given Alabama had long billed itself as having the âbiggestâ NMF matriculation with approx 1,100 NMF. Impressive until you consider that UA has almost 40,000 undergraduate students.
At Tulsa greater than 1 in 4 students is a NMF while at UA for every 1 NMF there are 34 non NMFs. Certainly a different environment.
I raise this (and will continue to do so) for context. Alabama appropriately is often raised as a great affordable option for NMFs, but it does not offer the âdensityâ of NMFs that a school like Tulsa provides.
Once again well done!
Edit: It should be noted that UA has an Honors College that has approximately 7,500 students so even if assuming all NMFs participate they are still outnumbered in this âeliteâ UA cohort 7 to 1.
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@sparkling_water i will add, the Tulsa NMF award is a very good oneâŠhere:
Award
- Full tuition (excluding summers) for five years or until an undergraduate degree is earned. Students must maintain a minimum of 15 hours of coursework per semester. The National Merit Semifinalist Package cannot be stacked with other TU funding or scholarshipsâŠ
- Tier I Housing (upgrades are available at your expense)
- Tier II Dining (upgrades are available at your expense)
- Standard Student Fees
- Textbooks (all incoming students receive free textbooks for the entirety of their undergraduate years)
- Secured spot in Leadership TU led by President Brad Carson
- A minimum $750 scholarship for National Merit Finalists from the National Merit organization. Renewability is based on the type of National Merit funding received.
- $6,000 monetary gift per year (funded by the Oklahoma Regents or the TU Board of Trustees)
** A portion of your supplemental scholarship paid for by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation and Oklahoma State Regents will be applied to your student account within the first six weeks of each semester.*
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OP please consider this!
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Hi everyone! Thank you all for the comments. Just want to assure everyone I very much am considering Tulsa, but I first want to contrast with the UF NMF package. Also considering factors like location, weather, etc.
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Forgot to give my final update here!
Accepted: NYU Tandon, BROWN UNIVERSITY!!!
Rejected: Columbia, Princeton, Stanford
Waitlist: Georgia Tech
Iâm crunching numbers to see if I can get through financial aid for Brown, but so far everything about it has been great. Thanks all for all your help!!!
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