My DD was accepted…no merit that we can see
CA Public High School
Top 10%/495
4.48 WGPA
AP Scholar with Honor (From 4 AP’s)
9 AP’s / 7 Honors
Girl Scout Member 13 years
Girl Scout Medal of Honor - Saving a life
HOBY Ambassador
President’s Bronze Award for Volunteering
Winter Guard WGASC AA Gold Medalist
Etc…
She will be declining this offer as she got into her #1 university of choice. But we did LOVE this university!!
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Son accepted (no merit)
GPA- 4.17 weighted
Rigor- 4 APs, 3 Honors
ECs- 4 yrs Varsity Tennis, volunteer, work
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USD is test blind
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D24 Accepted - Business
$20K per year merit award
3.92 UW 4.58 W
Top 10%/350
CA Private high school
9APs plus more honors, AP Scholar
3-sport varsity athlete
NHS, CSF
Leadership, service, strong recs
Has not shown significant interest in the school, no tour, etc.
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Daughter accepted with $23K Trustee scholarship. 3.9 UW, 8 APs and lots of honors courses, performance and sports ECs, various volunteering and activism.
My sincere sympathies to those who didn’t get merit or were waitlisted or rejected; feels like there is very little difference in quality among any of these applicant profiles. Truly hard to understand the rhyme or reason, but we are grateful for the offer. I wonder if USD’s application numbers went way or up.
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It does seem very difficult to know how these schools make their decisions not only on acceptances but also on merit. Why one gets in while another doesn’t. Every student on the face of their application seems outstanding and deserving. I can see how the upcoming UC schools will be even more difficult since they are test blind and every applicant will have a UC weighted gpa between a 4.0-4.3. Maybe that’s why schools like Yale and Dartmouth will be joining MIT in making tests mandatory?
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I don’t think my D24 did either but D24 just told me she was admitted. She then thought she didn’t get one because the FAFSA wasn’t complete so it sent us on a FAFSA mission last night and it turns out our FAFSA has yet to be submitted even though we signed it and thought it was complete way back on 1/7.
D24 BFF got a Trustee scholarship ($22,000 per year) and got the letter. BFF’s mom posted that on IG.
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Every Fafsa is stuck in same stage, they wont be approved until late March.
D24
3.97UW/4.29W
California (Riverside County)
Catholic HS (diocese supported)
21/103 class rank
Admitted to Health/Human Services (I think or something biology related; I can’t remember)
Varsity sport-MVP x 2
Varsity sport-Captain x 1
Varsity sport-competed at national level x 2
NHS
CSF
School Ambassador program
ETA: 7 APs, 4 additional honors classes
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Thank you.
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From reading the responses, seems like many (not all) private high schools or Catholic high schools. I wonder if USD gives weight to that?
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I don’t see a decision yet for my daughter. The wait is brutal.
D24 Waitlisted
Out of State, Business Major (no financial need identified in application)
4.2 GPA Weighted, 3.7 unweighted
5 AP, 9 Honors, 5 Concurrent Enrollment, 3 semesters of independently enrolled college classes
Top 15% in her class at an inner city Denver public school
4 sport athlete, Varsity Captain of 3, State competitor in 2
DECA President and State/ICDC competitor
Volunteers with Special Olympics
2 summers of study abroad programs of an academic nature
No test scores submitted
Great rec letters but mediocre essays (wouldn’t let me help!)
Maybe they somehow knew she’s an atheist? 
I’m sure most of the 17,000 applicants are similarly wonderful students. Congrats to those admitted! She’s got her heart set on SLO, fingers crossed as she got early notification of admission from SDSU. If not, she’s already accepted at her #2 and #3 choices.
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Email her counselor. They responded almost immediately and sent the emails. All decisions are out, according to USD.
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Stats:
Political Science
Private School
3.86 GPA (two 89’s freshman year, 3.95 sophomore & junior).
Advanced courseload (all honors and AP other than math)
Student government/leadership
Other in-school leadership plus captain of her sport (which is all school year)
Two govt related internships
Accepted with 20k merit per year
School counselor? Or a UCSD counselor? We also didn’t receive any decision notification.
Maybe this is the good news.
Were you looking for UCSD? This thread is for University of San Diego.
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Hah. I figured this out a second before I read your message. I’m lost. 
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Perfect! Now you are found!
IDK but I believe most Catholic colleges at least consider it.
Having said that, my kids go to a selective well respected Catholic school that almost never gets anyone in to Georgetown. Even accounting for their extremely low overall acceptance rate it surprises me that we can’t crack it at all with more than 80 applicants over the last 5 years and no acceptances. By contrast we do very well with acceptances at almost all the other well known Catholic schools.