D admitted to Storrs. We’re OOS. Merit award was $12k/yr. Was hoping for a bit more to match in state tuition of our flagship (UMass Amherst). She was also admitted there. Anyone know if asking for more $$ is worth it?
My daughter did not submit SAT or ACT scores. A lot of kids from her high school get accepted to Storrs so I’m wondering if maybe UCONN recognizes her catholic high school as a really good school. FYI, she didn’t pick a major which was why she was put into ACES program which is undecided at UCONN.
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Regarding merit appeal - had a neighbor last year who sent in merit from other schools to admissions and yes they wound up with $18k offer afterward. OOS (NJ).
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I wonder if no merit is a hard no…we were just looking for “some merit.” Hard to justify going to UConn when private colleges are giving him so much merit, that it brings the cost down to even cheaper than our flagship (UMASS Amherst).
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It could be the high school since we are public.
I am not sure about all the special programs, but based on last year’s thread it looked like the Law one came separately but same day as admit while Medicine came out the following week for some.
D24 had applied to Storrs campus for animal science but was offered acceptance at the Stamford campus.
We are in the same boat. I don’t think it’s a hard no and if you appeal highlighting cost of attendance with the examples I think you’ll get something. They would rather take a chance and offer something to get OOS dollars than risk holding firm and getting zero on an admitted student especially when it can improve their yield. We are waiting to hear from UDell on Merit later this month and will be sending something over.
UConn is a non starter for us OOS at list. If the cost becomes comparable it’s a definite consideration.
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Son accepted OOS, Storrs, computer science. 18.5k merit
1510 sat, 4.1 gpa, 7 AP
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Just wondering after all the speculation, can people comment about accessing (before official admission) the admin site (could everyone get in), vs the cas site (those accepted saw admitted, others just saw applicant) if you were accepted, waitlisted or rejected
The site was accurate for us- said admitted and storrs and she was admitted to storrs. Although it didn’t say that she was not admitted into her exercise science major and into aces instead. So dealbreaker.
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Accurate for my son as well.
It was accurate could get into all the stuff (not the housing) and the CAS site said admitted storrs.
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Yes, it was accurate for us, both S24 and D24 (twins) had “accepted student” and Storrs location in the CAS link. Catch was D24 got put into ACES and not nursing, so she probably will not attend UConn.
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Yes. It was correct. Said Stamford and Admitted Student. This was the same for her. She did get her major.
It is interesting to see those that got into Storrs, but then not their program.
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yes frustrating to not get your major- I didn’t even know that was a thing besides some of the more competitive business schools.
I saw a lot of Penn State people panic that they were not getting into the main campus, so they would just change their major to undecided. Would even call and change so they could be reconsidered. If you don’t know, Penn State does a slow drip of decisions which just drove people batty.
I have heard of people applying to an impacted program back in the day to a private school like Carnage Mellon, and they would get in, but waitlisted for their major (happened to my husband) and exactly like you see here, people just choose a different school. I didn’t know that state schools were doing that now.
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Yes - Rutgers is doing the same as well. You can scan the 2028 EA thread and see similar comments.