Hi, my son has applied uvm, financial aid needed, according to npc 36000$.
His stats
I see that the housing portal is open. Does anyone know if there’s a benefit for completing the application early in the open period?
We have the same question!
My S24 is in via ED and is supposed to get his first choice of Learning Community. We haven’t received any communication about there being a “first come, first served” situation for housing like at other schools. When my D21 was applying/deciding, the emails from schools about getting deposits in early were abundant.
I think I’m going to call the school and report back. We aren’t scheduled to visit until April for an admitted students day.
From last year’s EA/ED thread: “There’s no advantage to doing it early. As long as you complete it on time you’re good. She has to rank the learning communities in order of preference. She should receive something that has links for her to follow that helps her through this process”
Thanks for digging into last year’s thread for that!
Yes, I’d love to hear what they say if you call. We are the same, would prefer to wait until we attend admitted students day on March 29th before completing the housing app.
I heard back from a sweet person in Res. Life who said the housing contract just needs to be completed by May 3rd. No need to rush!
Looking ahead to next year. Do you think amount of merit money is based solely off of GPA? Rigor? EC? Does any one have insight on this. DD will be test optional- she plans on 3 APs senior year but only has 2 right now. 4.0 unweighted 4.1weighted. Average EC with some leadership but minimal sports. Works during school year . Just wondering the difference between the 18,000$/ year and 25,000$/ year- ??? Also does it matter for money which program you are applying too?
UVM’s net price calculator allows for test optional. I would take this with a grain of salt, but I ran the numbers for my DS with SAT and without. Just the weighted GPA yielded the max award. Adding the SAT, the result was down a tier ($20k/year). He opted out of submitting his SAT scores and did receive $25k/year in merit. All I can say for sure is that test optional didn’t hurt him.
Thank you for your response- do you mind sharing your sons stats- what program? Wonder if they look at rigor or just GPA?
4.0/4.6, 1330 SAT, strong EC & recommendations related to his intended major and program (Sustainability, Ecology & Policy/Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources). The NPC asking for weighted GPA implies rigor is an important factor.
So there is a calculator in the website to figure out merit?
This is great information. My son sent his ACT score in his EA app, and based on your posts I started to second guess that decision, but his WGPA netted the same scholarship (which he did receive) regardless of w/ or w/o a score. Whew!
I know that link will help so many families!
A word of caution, there may be more to the merit evaluation than the NPC suggests. From last year’s ED/EA thread:
I think the whole thing is a bit hard to figure out. My daughter OOS was admitted EA w/$25K/year merit but no Honors College invite (which she wanted in order to attend). She did submit SAT score and that may have kept her out of Honors College. Alas. Stats are: excellent recs, strong ECs (arts - no sports), 4.0 unweighted, 4.5 weighted, 8 APs (1 soph, 3 Junior, 4 Senior year), 1420 SAT.
I wonder if this was my son’s situation, as well. Admitted EA OOS in December with $20,000 scholarship, but no honors college invite. Today, the honors college invite randomly showed up in his portal. 3.85 gpa, 35 ACT, 11 AP classes, planning to major in chemistry. We’re looking forward to learning more when we come for an admitted student’s day at the end of the month.
Oh, interesting. Would you mind sharing where it showed up in the portal? Thank you!
It is just below the box that says “You’re In.” And his December acceptance letter there in the portal has been amended to include a sentence about Honors College.
