<p>I had posted earlier to get people’s thoughts on UD and merit scholarships; now trying again with more data.</p>
<p>My daughter is a rising senior and for a variety of reasons, extremely interested in the UD Honors Program and Pre-veterinary Medicine and Animal Biosciences major. She is ranked in the top 4 students of almost 500 in a competitive public high school (in PA), and her GPA is approximately 4.2 (weighted, which is about as good as you could be due to the number of honors/AP courses she was eligible to take). Her ACT, taken as a sophomore was a 35. She has taken 5 AP courses (Chem, Eng Lang, Calc BC, US and World History), and gotten all A’s and all 5’s on her AP test (except a 4 in World History). SAT2s include Math 2 (750), Literature (740), Chem (780), and Spanish (690). Long term, her career goal is to become a veterinarian, specializing in equine and equine sports medicine and surgery.</p>
<p>Her passion is equestrian, spending 20+ hours every week with training and competing in regional and national eventing competitions. She has done fairly well in eventing and Pony Club (HB/C3), and has won some awards. She has some other ECs as well, including Key Club and other community service involvement, but nothing remotely involved as this. Her recs and essays should be excellent. She is probably going to take an alternate path her senior year and finish a few high school classes virtually (although she has enough credits to ahve graduated early), and take a college course or two (possibly at UD). She is doing this to spend the year working full time (or more) as a working student for a current US Olympic eventing rider. She would learn infinitely more from doing this, and also be able to advance her own riding and compete during the year. We have no concerns about her being able to handle her coursework during this time.</p>
<p>So…my questions for the knowledgeable:
- Any issues with admittance to the Honors Program?
- Any issues with her senior year plan?
- What are the chances of significant merit aid, OOS tuition waiver, and DuPont Scholarship? She would like to attend somewhere that can offer her siginificant merit aid, and save her ‘college money’ for vet school.</p>
<p>Thanks for any input you all have…I have gotten some great advice in the past from the UD board!</p>