Daughter accepted
Presidential Scholarship
International
3.99 UW, not sure of weighted
4 AP’s, 4 Dual enrolment
Top 5% in class
Test Optional
Most EC’s Sports related - National Awards for 2 (captain in both)
Leadership - School Prefect, Peer Forward Peer Leader
Lots of community service/volunteering
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You’re all phenomenal !!! Congratulations to all who applied.
An admissions committee decision is not a decision on your ability or worth. Yes, concentrate on Plan B. Note, there’s also Plan C - transferring (my brother transferred twice and is now a national leader in his field). It’s where you end, not where you start, and not over until it’s over.
Daughter received Singer:
- National Merit SemiFinalist (should make it to finalist)
- ACT 36 (all sections, single test)
- Valedictorian (public high school, highest GPA in 20+ yrs)
- Strong essays, high impact Singer essay
- Enough AP/college classes to cover almost all UM’s required courses
- Varsity sport
- International competition - 2 activities
- State competition - 3rd activity
- President of NHS, 10th grade class president, plus other clubs
- Received stipend for extremely highly competitive program in 11th-12th grade summer
- Helped start community non-profit
- 3rd generation legacy
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I feel acceptance rates should be taken with a grain of salt as each applicant is different. Percentages are not similar to playing the lottery where everyone has an equal chance. Rather, they provide a general guide of the how competitive it is to gain admission. Strong applications will have high chances and weak applications will have low chances. So, low overall admission percentages should not deter one from applying.
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I can’t tell you your chances but at an info session at a competing school (not UM), the admissions person said to not submit an ACT score if it wasn’t in the published range.
Hi. My son was very excited to be accepted yesterday. However, we had a financial letter indicating they were waiting on certain tax documents. But when I log in to IDOC everything appears to be received that they say they are waiting on. The only document that appeared outstanding was not something referenced in the letter (although I immediately filled it out).
My question is the letter says to be considered for “full academic funding” to have these things submitted within two weeks. Do you think he may still be eligible for merit money? Anyone else have an issue like this? As I indicated it appears all the documents were received by IDOC back in November.
Thank you.
Here’s UM’s merit scholarship FAQs: Merit Scholarships FAQs | Undergraduate Admissions | University of Miami
The financial aid office should be able to answer your question.
When do RD decisions come out?
Son accepted EA
3.8 UW GPA / ~4.5 weighted (2 HS, lots of honors, hard to calculate)
35 ACT
8 total APs (4 completed: euro, apush, calc bc, lit; 4 senior year: lang, stats, Econ, comp sci)
Small/mid-size private HS in DMV.
Varsity athlete; band (less common instrument); mid ECs; fair essays; not sure on recs.
Yep, I was just responding to the OP who asked specifically how much harder it is to get into UF as opposed to UM. The stats give at least one piece of the admissions pie. We’re OOS so my viewpoint might be skewed, but at my daughter’s highly competitive high school, the acceptance rate to UM was higher than UF, so I understood that maybe it’s a bit harder to get into UF.
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ED 2, Admissions officer just changed. Mean anything?
My son has been ED2 for awhile (originally EA, but switched to ED2 back in December after rejected from ED1 school).
All of a sudden today the admissions officer changed from the woman it had always been, to a man who is the ‘director’. Does this mean anything, or am I overanalyzing?
I realize the EA decisions just came out on Friday, so maybe they are just reorganizing in the admissions office, and re-assigning students to new officers.
Anyone else ED2 experience something like this?
Also, is there a specific ED2 thread for U Miami? I don’t see it anywhere, hence why I’m posting here.
Any help appreciated!
who was the orig woman?
Don’t recall her name offhand, why would that matter?
My daughter was also EA and switched to EDII in December. Her admission counselor also changed to a male Director, but a few weeks ago when she made the switch. This wait is dreadful.
Thanks for the info. Yeah, I don’t think it means anything. Looking at the list of admissions officers, I don’t see the previous woman listed, so perhaps she left her role as an admission’s officer. Agreed, as Tom Petty says, “The Waiting is the hardest part!!!”
I don’t think it means anything. Admissions offices have super high turnover, so she probably left and they put the director in her place till they hire someone else.
who has an idea of the defferal rate of miami
Is anyone who was deferred opting for EDII?
Word of caution, just know that schools like to give little aid to ED students since they have to go. And most people don’t know they can get out of ED if they can’t afford. Just stand your ground if admitted ED and pull out if you can’t negotiate a good deal!
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Hi,
I’m curious about this. My daughter doesn’t want to start Spring semester as she wants to start college with her peers. Can you share more about what you have heard?
I’m just curious - was anyone who is still waiting on a response, able actually to register for this? Even when I tried to access it incognito and select a date, it took us to the log-in page, then you see the “Congratulations” and asked to submit. I would assume it wouldn’t let just any applicant register? Sorry, the stress of waiting is getting to me. My daughter switched to EDII and the unknowing is almost as hard on me as it is on her! LOL!