In-state here, accepted with ‘scholarship acceptance’ link that leads to no info. Hartford area, nothing in the mail here this afternoon . looks like we have to wait till Monday (depending on storm, maybe tues).
D received her package today in the mail with honors and scholarship notification. We are just outside of Hartford.
For anyone that has uconn experience. I’m entering as a physio/neuro major this fall at the Hartford branch. If all goes well, I’ll be entering with a total of 16 ECE credits. How long would I be at the regional campus with that specific major . My goal is to be up at storrs by my second or third semester. Thoughts?
Physiology/ Neurobiology****
Stamford is about 30 miles away. We’re esentially directly in between Stamford and Waterbury, same distance, and neither is close due to traffic. I commuted to Stamford for years, and that is a terrible commute if you are heading there any time between 7 and 10, or heading back between 4 and 7 pm. Would take anywhere from 50 to 90 minutes on a normal day. bumper to bumper.
We would consider one semester for sure, but would have to be a known thing. Wouldn’t want to have a carrot dangled only to be pulled away. I don’t think she would consider going there for two years. We have other offers at schools (which are ranked similarly, or even higher, depending on what rankings you look at), but they would cost about 8k per year more than Uconn. She would probably take on the additional loans to not have to live at home. One semester is a different story though. Although, missing the entire orientation experience for an already shy/introverted kid, we do worry about. Housing in Stamford … scares me a little. It’s really not that safe a place for a 17 year old female to live, students at UConn stamford talk about needed police escorts to get around after dark. As someone who worked there, it didnt worry me too much when I worked (literally right next to Stamford Uconn), but I was careful about where I went and I would balk at the idea of my daughter living there for safety reasons. Plus that would be expensive, about the same as sending her to Uconn.
I would appreciate everyone’s opinion on this. My son is doing electricial Engg and got accepted into Bing, U Conn, Stony Brook, U Del, Rutgers and TCNJ. His criteria is distance from home, reputation, quality of education, cost and campus, He is ranking them as follows:
- U Conn
- Rutgers
- Bing
- TCNJ
- Stony brook
Stony Brook is the closest but it slipped down because of all the overcrowding he has been hearing about.
BIng is the farthest.
He doesn’t like the Rutgers campus at all, even though he got merit and honors.
He took Fairfield off his list and Penn State was way too far. U Del he needs to visit.
What’s everyone’s opinion on those top 5 and quality of education etc.
@HankCT It seems like Stamford might not work. How disappointing to not have Storrs as an option. Each year it is getting more competitive. At the parent orientation last year they said they had record applications with higher stats and I bet it is the same this year. If your heart is set on Uconn the other option is to attend one of the other schools and transfer for Sophomore year. We have friends who did this as well. We are happy with Uconn and it’s many opportunities. Best of luck with your choice!
@HSinLI A lot of good options. For starters would need to know the cost of each, I mean, if one is 10k per year more than the other it changes my ranking. It also depends on what you consider most important: national recognition of school (if So Uconn, Rutgers would top the list), academic/STEM (Bing jumps up there), a large campus with all of the cool facilities (Uconn, Del, Rutgers).
For me, I would say: Uconn, Delaware, Bing, Rutgers, TCNJ, Stony. And I think Bing is a higher academic school than Delaware, but Delaware has everything, where as Bing might feel more niche.
@HankCT so far cost is about 3-4K gap between them all. Merit from all of them helped reach to the state tuition level. We are waiting on the U Conn letter and if it’s in the range I’m pretty sure he would favor UConn. Thanks for your thoughts. We are pretty aligned.
Son received his acceptance letter in the mail yesterday with honors and merit. In state. Computer science major.
1520 SAT, 3.9 gpa uw 4.4 w, 8 AP’s etc. Are there any computer science majors here? I’m wondering about the strength of the program at UConn.
@Ultima2019 congrats. What is the merit like.
@HSinLI Thank you! He received the academic excellence scholarship, which is worth $7500 per year.
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Its says
Admitted Academic Program: ACES
Admitted Academic Plan: Pre-Sport Management
Admitted Campus: Storrs
–>Also, I’m OOS (if that makes a difference)
DD accepted Direct Admit to Storrs Nursing (+several others). She’s starting her Pro/Con list~ QUINNIPIAC DA, Ohio State Pre-Nurse (no DA) & UConn Storrs. With merit all money is =. Suggestions for her lists?
I’d have to order them: UConn, Quinnipiac, Ohio State (only placing this school last because it wasn’t a direct admit… if it were a direct admit I’d have Ohio State ahead of QU)
I’m just ordering these based on name recognition and rigor/outcome of their programs.
@Ultima2019 My son is Comp Sci. Don’t know about merit, as we haven’t gotten the package yet.
The email from post office shows the. Uconn letter. But it’s just 5x7, someone mentioned that the larger envelopes means merit and honors. Let’s see what mine says.
How did u check that ^^^
@HSinLI
@7T01R01 Someone mentioned a service the post office has. Informed mail. I signed up for it.
Hit with 15" of snow - hopefully the mail gets delivered today 