@uniquefirsttry I wouldn’t stress too much about your son’s drop in grades. It won’t have a tremendous impact on his GPA, and a C in AP calculus is not a failing grade. I’d be more concerned if he was not attending classes at all. I can all but guarantee that this is common. The school looked at 3 1/2 years of grades, a better indicator of hard work and caliber of student than the last semester of senior year. My DS went from an A in AP Physics to a B. I not fighting him on it. I just reminded him that if he fails the AP exam, he has to take the course again college—his choice.
My daughter’s senioritis was critical! She barely maintained her grades from junior year during the first semester, and was at the maximum allowable absences during her second semester. Her college-a very good Boston school-didn’t rescind their offer. She has a work ethic I NEVER saw in HS. She’s now a junior and has made the Dean’s list all but one semester.
I will say this, I have heard that Engineering, Pre-Med Majors and Nursing the colleges do not like to see their senior year change much. With that said a C or C+ in an AP class is not a bad grade, its a hard class but an overall big decline is not great for the majors above. More importantly because the colleges will think they either are not ready like you said or will not be able to do the work. They really need to try to finish as strong as possible.
@mrs806 Glad to see we aren’t alone. My daughter has been an A/B student (most grades between 85 and 95) and her GPA has dropped by 0.2 each quarter. Weighted 3.5, 3.3, 3.1. She’s in AP and Honors classes, and we saw a significant let down in her work ethic the moment colleges admitted her. Like you, I worry that a kid who has a “I’ll work when I absolutely have to” mentality may get run over in college. Having said that, that’s how I was and still am today in my career. I tend to work in bursts, do better with deadlines and have periods where I am less productive. I think she’s beyond “done” with her HS, was ready to move on a long time ago. Going through the motions now.
Hi everyone, congratulations to all who were accepted! Such a big achievement and you all deserve it based on all of your hard work over the past four years! I have seen multiple posts saying that you/your son/your daughter won’t be attending due to price, better offers, etc. With that in mind, I would like to remind you all that plenty of waitlisted students are vying for spots in the Class of 2023, and they cannot be notified until Admissions can gauge how many accepted students accept their offer and put down a deposit. If you are 100% not going to Storrs and have already put down a deposit elsewhere, it would be greatly appreciated if you could “withdraw” your application from the UConn portal to provide the admissions staff with an accurate reading of your plans for the Fall (no, you don’t have to wait for it to automatically cancel out on May 1!). That way, they can figure out their yield a little easier and quicker, and some waitlisted students can hear back earlier. Every day spent on the waitlist is pure agony, especially if UConn has been your top school all along! Most years, they don’t notify students until after May 1st due to applications that are still active. Please consider doing this to help both the admissions staff and anxious waitlisted students. If you are still going between a few schools, by all means, keep the application active! You all deserve your admission due to your hard work these past four years. Thank you!
Went to accepted students day last Saturday with D. We went to an accounting info session where we were told by an accounting professor, “UConn is a public ivy and this year the Storrs acceptance rate was 10%”. ?
@Loki71 Last year the UConn acceptance rate was 49%, and I cannot imagine that applications increased 5-fold in a year. I suspect that the professor is quoting the size of the freshman class divided by the number of applicants without considering the number of accepted students.
That said, UConn is a great university, and I would consider it on par with the other public ivies.
@Loki71 Storrs Campus accounts for 80.7% of the total UConn enrollment. If Storr’s acceptance rate was 10% and regional rate was 100%, that would equate to an estimated overall acceptance rate of 27.4%. The regional acceptance rate would need to be 212% (mathematically impossible for the rate to be >100%) for the Storr’s rate to be 10% and the overall rate to be 49%, assuming that equal rates accept offers from both. Sorry, but the numbers that the professor quoted just don’t add up.
@Loki71 you never know, a professor or department may be referring to their own relatively low acceptance rate as opposed to ACES which must have a much higher accept rate than the overall and certainly higher than schools like engineering, pharm, etc.
I am wondering if the accounting professor was speaking specifically about the business school? U Conn overall published they had an acceptance rate of 49% last year. Hoping for a call from the wait list people!
Just checked my email, I got in off the waitlist for 2023! Advice for all applicants next year, be in touch with admissions from the start of when you are waitlisted and submit extra rec letters — my interactions with my regional rep is definitely what got me in. Congrats to everyone in the class of 2023!!
Yay congrats!!! I’ll see you there then. I second that, I spent a lot of time working on a really strong letter of interest to send to admissions and I think that definitely got me off the waitlist