NYC (Manhattan) here!
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Weāre from northern Virginia
New York:) Accepted for accounting, and he loved it when we toured, so we shall see. Itās one of his favorites.
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Weāre in MA. My daughter loved the school when we visited. We didnāt know much about it and were very pleasantly surprised. We have since heard of a bunch of people who attend(ed) and no one has anything but positive reviews.
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Yeah everyone who goes there seems to love it
Daughter from PA
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Step 1. UD sends out acceptance letters each Friday over the next few months at @ 5:00pm
Step 2. Honors College letters will follow, usually takes weeks. They donāt send everything together.
Step 3. Merit Letters go out. Weeks after acceptance letters. Again, nothing comes together. UD does not take additional Merit money requests. Whatever you get, you get. They do not add any extra money even if you ask. Merit money has gone down the last 2 years. So Iām even curious to see where everyone comes out after letters are sent out.
Good Luck!
Itās a great school.
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Thank you. We werenāt expecting to get everything together, just thought it was odd that all evidence of my daughter having applied to honors seems to have disappeared now that she has been accepted to the college itself. Does that mean thereās really no way to know whether she is still being considered for honors until she either gets an acceptance or it becomes March and she hasnāt gotten an acceptance?
You can email them and let them know that she is very interested in the Honors College and intend on accepting. That way they know your intentions 100%. Definitly worth a quick email.
My son is in Honors College and the Dorm itself (Redding) was 1000% worth it, Fully ac with an elevator.
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Southern PA- near the MD border. We are about 90 minutes from UDā¦ so close, yet still OOS tuition! 
Kids love it here. Great School. Worth the money.
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Would need 10k to make it work; not likely based on what Iāve seen from others. The NPC gave us 14k but it is using my estimate of a recalculated GPA on a 5.0 scale and I suspect I didnāt do that correctly. So we waitā¦ but yes, we have heard nothing but great things and my daughter adored the tour!
I wish there was more of an explanation of how they recalculate the GPA so you could trust what the NPC spits out a bit more. My daughterās HS doesnāt provide a weighted GPA, and also structures things so itās not possible to take a huge # of AP classes. Iām not sure how honors classes are counted. Really not sure what the weighted GPA out of 5 would even be. Guess weāll just learn to be patient.
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My sonās portal is the same. All honors info is gone. He was accepted as well
Since schools weigh differently, many recalculate with unweighted, A - 4, B - 3, C - 2ā¦. Add up and divide by the number of (core) classes. Straight Aās 4.0.
OOS from Virginia for engineering. Really loved their engineering department on the tour, but a bit uncertain about the campus and if enough ārah rahā. Definitely in the mix, especially if accepted to Honors
But UD uses some weighted GPA calculation, because it asks about your GPA out of 5.0 in the NPC. I have my daughterās UNweighted, but I have no idea how UD would translate that into a weighted GPA out of 5.0 for honors and/or merit.
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But not every school goes up to 5.0. My daughter had one B, 9 APās, the rest honors, and her wgpa on her transcript was 4.2. Highest possible was 4.4.
Thatās what I mean. Iām wondering how they translate it to the weighted GPA out of 5.0. That information is nowhere so itās just a guessing game. That being said, Iād think your daughter would be an easy admit to honors and would qualify for a lot of merit.
Glad weāre not alone!