<p>We have made slight progress-we plan to go to accepted student day at one of DS top choices (Redlands). It will likely end up being where he goes next year (my opinion-- I could be completely wrong, as I have been many times in this process). His original #1 (LMU) he was deferred and even if he is accepted in the end I think he has somewhat lost interest, plus I think the $$ won’t be good since he will not be one of their top choices. One other top choice (Denver) he is accepted but with no merit $$. We will wait for the complete FA package but I am thinking that there is no way it will be close to Redlands. </p>
<p>Visit day isn’t until April so we have a while. I am hoping when he goes back he absolutely loves everything about it and is ready to send in the deposit. In the meantime we should get other FA packages to compare</p>
<p>bk- I would be livid. I wonder what the hold up is? What will you do?</p>
<p>There are a good number of liberal arts schools in OH. There is also an inordinately high number in Pennsylvania. </p>
<p>pkd- congrats on the acceptances. looking forward to hearing about your visits to OWU and Wooster.
Heavylidded- Looking forward to hearing your impressions after your trip!</p>
<p>MyLB
ISN’T Miami of Ohio THE most beautiful campus ever? I attended a wedding there years ago. I have never seen anything prettier. My boss at the time said “the beauty of that campus is the best kept secret in Ohio.”</p>
<p>Idahomom: congrats on Redlands. I will be interested to hear how it turns out. Tried to get my D interested there but she said it was too far away.</p>
<p>NPR–there is that Robert Frost quote about Miami being the “most beautiful campus there is.” I remember DS and I walking out of the parking garage to attend his freshman orientation the summer before he started. This was his third visit to the school, and my soft-spoken, shy kid said, “I can’t believe how lucky I am.” I thought he was talking about making a good college selection, being a direct admit to the business school, having a wonderful future ahead of him, but he said no, he was talking about being in such a beautiful place for four years. Kind of sweet.</p>
<p>Amen to all of that. For those of you making the trip to Oxford, it’s actually worth planning your route into town so that you approach from the east on Ohio Route 73. Doing so means that you’ll pass through about ten miles worth of rolling hills and small farms after turning off the main road. Then you’ll pass the university equestrian center at the bottom of a hill (and, seriously, what sort of public university has its own stables?) before cresting the next hill and essentially having the entire campus suddenly appear like something out of Brigadoon. </p>
<p>There’s nothing quite like it, and for all four years I was down there, my dad would drive 15 miles out of the way to get that approach.</p>
<p>SomeOldGuy - that’s the way we drive to Oxford. They’re doing some work on the equestrian center right now. Improving an already impressive facility. Miami ranks right up there for the most attractive campus in the country. Fingers crossed DS2 also decides to attend. It would be nice to only have one school to deal with, at least for two years. Of course if he decides elsewhere, I’ll only have the 8-9 hour drive for two more years instead of four.</p>
<p>MyLB - sorry to hear that and I hope it works out the way you and your son wants. I’m with other people and say that things work out for a reason. </p>
<p>I agree, OOS is higher but it’s still the cheapest my '13er is looking at. They keep raising tuition, too, and since my older son started there they’ve also added an additional charge for every class taken at the business school. Not much fun having a couple business majors!</p>
<p>Well I vented yesterday that my '13er’s midterm transcripts hadn’t been sent to the colleges he was waiting on for regular decisions. Someone must have been listening and they were submitted last night and the colleges downloaded them today. Still not sure why it would take an extra two weeks after we received the report cards for the transcripts to be sent. We did contact the reps at the schools and tell them the reports were coming. His regular decision schools should be admits but you never know and if he doesn’t get in that could be one reason - especially for the one who notifies next week.</p>
<p>Miami of Ohio is an amazing campus. I took my son there years ago in an attempt to get excited about the college process. It was not my intent to get him interested in Miami but he fell in love during the visit and ended up attending. Nice unintended consequences. Ohio is a great state to visit colleges. We would fly into Columbus and visit Miami, Cincinati, Xavier, Dayton, OWU, Denison and Kenyon. I did that with my first 2 kids and will be doing the same next month with my daughter. She doesn’t have the grades for Kenyon and a couple others and has no interest in Miami. We will be going to Dayton, Xavier and UC and might add a 4th college. </p>
<p>I thought Miami was the most beautiful campus I had ever seen, with a close second going to Kenyon. However, I then visited Furman University with my daughter. Wow. She is now a junior there.</p>
<p>Hello - my junior son will likely wind up with a 3.3 or so unweighted average, and I’m guessing a 3.8 or so weighted gpa. His sat scores was 1910, with 650 reading and 670 math. He really wants to go to UMD College Park (in state). Any educated guesses as to his chances of getting in (I really don’t think he will be accepted to business). Does anyone know much about University of Arizona, especially the business school? Any suggestions for east coast schools he will likely get in with those stats, that won’t cost a fortune? He is more of a big school type of person, and although he’s interested in business and journalism, he realizes his interests may very well change.
Thanks</p>
<p>Back with my update on our request for re-consideration of merit aid based on excellent mid year transcript. This request was made to U D e n v e r since my D was accepted EA.</p>
<p>First, the admin Rep was very nice. She took my request and forwarded to the Dir of Admissions and promised an answer within one week. That was last Thurs. I received answer back from her (Not Director). </p>
<p>They did not offer any merit aid. But it wasn’t because they had already reviewed D. Their reason was that their applicant pool was "very competitive " this year and average for merit aid was 3.75.They explained that the Net Price Calculator was based on last year’s data.</p>
<p>That’s a big Yikes!! For all of us. This means you can do all your homework and get your kid’s hopes up, and possibly waste time and money on visits, and finances won’t even be close.</p>
<p>Well, I postponed Accepted Student Day visit until we get FA package for final review.</p>
<p>We are in agonizing wait mode now also. Waiting for FA from EA acceptance and biting nails waiting for a deferral decision and two important RD decisions. Still waiting on Cal State safeties also.</p>
<p>Daughter is going to do an overnight visit to Cal Lutheran next week, so that should fill some time.</p>
<p>Just a bit more of a response to 1214–if you’re looking for larger, lower-cost schools, have you checked out the admissions stats for your in-state publics?</p>
<p>I graduated from Arizona State so know a bit about U Arizona. They have a very good business school and are especially strong (one of the very best) in MIS. OOS costs are currently $37,000 per year, expect around a 5% increase for next year. You might receive some merit though, don’t know.</p>
<p>From my research (we looked at lots of OOS big schools), the least expensive OOS big schools with big time sports and big time research (current or former members of AAU); are U Nebraska-Lincoln, U Minnesota and Iowa State University. </p>
<p>Both U MN and ISU cost about $28,000 for OOS students. Look for U MN to be much more expensive within the next year or so for OOS students though. I think the gpa is a bit too low for merit to ISU but they have an online ascholarship estimator. Grades are too low for asdmission to B school at U MN. Iowa State has solid business and journalism programs.</p>
<p>UN-L is about $29,000 per year but they offer lots of merit to students with SAT over the 1300 (CR+M) range even with lowish grades. I’ll bet you would get a nice scholarship bringing the total probably to around $20,000 per year. They also have an online scholarship estimator. </p>
<p>Kansas also offers nice scholarships to OOS student but you need to maintain a 3.5 gpa to keep it after frosh year.</p>
<p>1214mom- UMD College Park does not have its common data set easily accessible on the web (unlike a lot of schools). USNWR now has much of its statistics locked in a pay for access portion of its site. The best I could get was via parchment dot com. Shows your student is fine re SAT are admitted students and a bit low on gpa if they are using unweighted. the College Data site shows the same issues with gpa- but not totally unachievable. Obviously this is self reporting so they both may be skewed.</p>
