DS24 Accepted Architectural Engineering. 3.98UW 34 ACT don’t see any notice of merit in the notification
Not sure if this is helpful but at the bottom of the acceptance letter there was a small print link that when clicked on took us to a seperate letter offering merit. Several of my friends missed the link and thought they weren’t offered any.
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Is anyone else in the same boat? Trying to determine whether to move on after being deferred? Is it expected that CU will take the full time until April 1 to let everyone know?
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It seems like deferring has become an important tool for colleges that receive so many applications. It helps them manage their enrollment and it gives applicants a chance to show their interest if they wait.
It stinks to be deferred, but the decision to wait for RD really comes down to whether CU is a top choice for an applicant.
I was talking with a friend of mine who is an alum, and one who is pretty active with the alumni network, who was saying the number of OOS applications this year is up a ton, with a substantially higher GPA than in years past. I have to imagine that messes a lot with the models they have around enrollment.
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I wonder why the “substantially” higher GPAs? Pass/Fails during covid?
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Not sure. The current senior class was in 8th grade when Covid hit. So that spring semester (when grading policies were especially lenient) is irrelevant for the purposes of college applications. At my kids’ HS (which happens to send dozens – maybe hundreds – of kids to CU Boulder every year), the grading policy went back to normal in Fall 2020. So that would have been freshman year for this class. Our HS is a sample of one, but I think it may have been pretty typical.
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Possibly their 9th grade was Pass/Fail even if covid started when they were in 8th grade.
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Yes, entirely possible at some (many) schools. My impression was that most went back to a standard grading scale. But it might be different at schools that stayed fully remote in the fall (ours were on hybrid).
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Maybe the higher GPAs were the result of a much larger applicant pool of students.
If you typically have 10,000 students out of 50,000 with 3.7+ UW GPAs and your pool increased by 40%, assuming a normal distribution of grades, then you have 4,000 more highly qualified students and the same number of available spots.
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I know one district adjacent to ours that actually changed the grading scale during covid so that an A was 88-100, and so on.
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Moving on, more than likely.
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Have all the OOS EA applications been decided? My student hasn’t heard yet at least as far as I know.
As far as we know all the decisions for the November 1st EA applications have been sent. That said, what do I know? 
Maybe consider calling the admissions office?
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I thought they went out in batches in the past.
Accepted
OOS
3.9 Weighted GPA
1260 SAT Submitted
4 AP’s
Meaningful EC’s
School of Arts and Sciences
Merit Aid 25k
How does one explain CU giving 25K award to my son who got accepted to Leeds as Pre Business but not offering anything to his friend that is a direct admit to Leeds?? This was my son’s safety; he’s not going but I was curious.
It could be because CU is your son’s safety. I know other colleges use algorithms to determine how much merit aid would nudge an individual student to accept the offer of admission.
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Can you tell me where you saw your awarded merit? S24 has similar stats but higher test scores, also arts and sciences and says he got no merit. I am just curious if he missed it.
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We are in the same boat- S24 has nigher GPA, higher test scores and more ECs than many of his friends who were also accepted and some of them got merit and he is saying he did not. I am having him check again- not sure if he missed it?! Not sure where else to look and one would think they would make it obvious since they would want the student to find their award to help them make their decision.
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