This is the official thread for those applying EA/ED to Macalester College.
List your unweighted GPA, any SAT /ACT scores, and ECs. What majors are you going into?
Ask your questions, the CC community is here to help!
EA app in
3.77 unweighted, 4.59 weighted, 700 hours research, 300 hours volunteering
Test optional
Biology
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Got a letter saying EA decisions released by December 20.
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Updated - nothing to see here! I was playing operator and I got it wrong! Sorry to get people’s hopes up!
@ali-ice, where was this announced?
Nothing to see here!
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No, the email asked to reply to a survey by 12/10 to keep the application EA vs ED.
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Oops – game of operator! Haha!
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No worries. I got super excited for my kiddo too and had to read the email 3x 
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Does getting the “Your Early Action Application” to ask if you have committed via ED elsewhere mean you are going to get accepted or do they send this to all EA applicants?
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They send it to everyone. They send this query during the RD cycle, too.
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D26 got in EA with $35K/year. We’re very relieved after a straight rejection from her ED school. Mac is her first admit and an amazing option.
Her stats: 4.0UW at good NJ public. top rigor, all 5s on APs, 1550 and 35, good but not extraordinary XCs, very good supplemental essays.
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Congrats! My senior twins got in EA with $35K/year each also. We have a sophomore at Mac already and enjoying his time there.
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Congrats to you both! My daughter has also been accepted EA with a 35K/year scholarship. This is one of her top choices, so she’s excited. It’s a great school.
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Deferred - which is not unexpected. We are actually happy it’s not an outright rejection. 
Stats:
3.77 unweighted, 4.59 weighted
700 hours research, 300 hours volunteering
Test optional
Biology
And we need aid - so Macalester was always going to be a reach.
Feeling okay with this outcome -will write a LOCI.
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Got in EA!!! I only forwarded my Questbridge application!! I also did the interview, which I highly recommend!!! (also helped me answer the supp)
95 weighted GPA (my school only does weighted) and I was only top 20%
1530 SAT while school average is 1150
Very Impactful ECs as a Poli-Sci major.
Also got a very nice fin aid package (around 6K COA)!
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