Anyone able to submit their waitlist acceptance? Keep getting ‘access denied.’ Called admissions and the school operator said they said a number of folks have called with the same issue. Wasnt able to reach anyone in the admissions office, just left a message.
this happened to me as well
The admissions decisions are on the portal…
Honestly, this college is a hot mess when it comes to publishing its decisions. We did receive the wait list letter on Monday, but when I log in to my son’s portal today, I’m instructed to click on a link but there’s no decision there just a two sentence option to join the wait list.
I think I figured something out. Only waitlisted students received letters. Rejected students do not get letters. That info is relayed solely through the portal. My son isn’t home yet, but I’ll have him check the portal when he gets here.
Oh, well.
Congrats to all who were accepted.
My son’s destiny lies elsewhere, in a neighboring state.
Yep, as I figured. Rejected from Lafayette…but waitlisted at Lehigh.
This process is so weird.
By the numbers, he had a much better chance of getting accepted at Lafayette.
I’m guessing not many students from the waitlist end up getting admitted to Lehigh, but we’ll see.
Waitlisted
3.7 UW/4.17 WGPA
1490 SAT
Disappointed that I didn’t get in but holding out hope on the waitlist! Doesn’t seem like the odds very good though
@IWentToCollege about half of lehigh’s applicants are waitlisted while Lafayette is quite a bit more selective for their’s
Does anyone know what happens to marquis merit money when a student decides not to attend? My DS was accepted and did not receive any merit money from Lafayette. Do they give that merit money to other students??
I very much doubt it. Just as with acceptances they have a model to predict a general yield on those offers year to year. So they offer more scholarships than they expect to attend knowing some won’t attend. But you can always ask to be reconsidered.
Unfortunately, Lafayette’s model for merit is to either give a large sum (Marquis) or very little. There are a few smaller amounts out there like the performing arts stipend but the distribution is not a bell curve.
@shuffle1 That is a very good point and not really understanding that philosophy. If they spread the money around a bit they would entice some great students who just can’t afford the full freight but would come with some merit aid.
anyone accepting their spot on the waitlist?
@anxiety247 we are.
@54Highland It’s been their pattern at least since they started the Marquis program. If you’re looking for a school that doles out smaller amounts to a wider array of students, that’s probably a state flagship public u. Lafayette’s approach makes them financially competitive against similar schools for the small population of students they focus on, and they’ve chosen to make that their priority in merit funding.
@shuffle1 - Oberlin and Kenyon are two schools that are similar in acceptance rates, similar in rankings sometimes equal, sometimes a bit higher and sometime a bit lower that provide merit aid to a larger segment of students. RPI is another example. I would also note that they have admitted they are splitting hairs in the process. So in the end the 1500 kid with 7 notable resume items gets $24,000 and the 1480 kid with 6 notable resume items gets 0 and has no financial aid so they go elsewhere so they get the 1350 kid who gets $40,000 in financial aid. I will tell you my son loved Lafayette and if we could have gotten $10,000 it would probably be at the top of the list. Since he’s accepted at Hamilton & Michigan (OOS) if we are going to pick a full pay school it won’t be Lafayette. They have their choice on how to do things but so do we. LOL
waitlisted. Here’s a general overview of my application:
Intended major: Computer science (really computer science/English double major with journalism as the career goal)
who am I: white girl from upper middle class coastal Connecticut.
SAT: 1550
ACT: 34
UW GPA: 3.5 W GPA: 4.2
AP Classes: APUSH, Physics 1, Physics C, French, English Lit, Comp Sci, Calc AB, Macro (I would have taken more but you can only really do AP classes junior year at my school)
Extracurriculars: Editor of the newspaper, founder/leader of gun violence group that organized the walkout at my school, founder/president of creative writing club, member of school’s GSA, co-president of Young Democrats, member/webmaster for women in STEM club, member of coding club, member of the varsity math team, did the fall play and spring musical at my school every year, varsity soccer player, varsity fencer/captain of the fencing team, co-founder of app design club, volunteered teaching soccer to differently abled children, volunteered with a local political campaign (also kind of my town’s Democratic committee), ran a personal blog since the seventh grade, National Honors Society Member
(there’s some other smaller stuff that I didn’t include in this list but put on a digital resume that I sent to them)
Essay: 8/10 (I’m a writer but I didn’t write about anything tragic. I think that’s what gets the ad coms. I also considered but didn’t really explain how my grades were influenced by some mental health and family stuff but ya know,)
Rec 1: 9/10 (probably. Done by my junior year Honors Intro to Comp Sci teacher who was also my fencing coach, fencing being my main sport and computer science obviously being my major. Super cool, funny, and nice guy who greatly impacted my life.)
Rec 2: 7.5/10 (again probably. Done by my freshman year English teacher who was also my newspaper advisor. She reignited my love for English and basically appointed me to my position as editor. I trust that she wrote a great rec, but I’m sure colleges just saw it as a freshman teacher and thus a negative.)
Acceptances: Reed, UConn, UVM
Waitlists: Lafayette (obviously), American, NYU
Rejections: UNC Chapel Hill, UChicago, Vassar, Georgetown, Brown, Yale (don’t laugh at the fact I applied to Ivy Leagues–I was sort of pressured into it)
Please disregard my inconsistent grammar/capitalization. I didn’t want to spend too much time on this, but I figured it may be helpful for someone applying next year.
@gracemcmc not sure based on your overview why anybody would be laughing at you for applying to the Ivy’s. Pretty good resume in my opinion.
@54Highland i appreciate you saying so
1510 SAT, Calc AB and BC - 5s on AP, Physics 5AP GPA 3.8/4.0 Math 2 and physics subject test - don’t remember his grades but they were somewhere in high 700s.