Heartiest congratulations! very happy for you and your son!
I’m sure they would have appreciated a growth in grades over sophomore and Junior year.
Besides, they always look at GPAs in context of the school.
A lot of 4.0 GPAs and straight As that you see reported are not that great, and colleges know that.
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Son got accepted EA to the College of Engineering. Very happy for him and congratulations to all the admits.
Does any merit scholarship information get released the same time as the admission decision is released?
Thank you for this info!
Since so few kids are accepted EA, do you think there’s any kind of a benefit/special consideration for the deferred EA students in the regular decision round?
Deferred to business school, 3.9/4.7, top 3% of competitive class, 34 ACT (35 Math), lots of work on essays, showed interest. Oh well 
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DD was admitted to Arts and Sciences!
GPA is 3.9/4.35; 10APs, she is in a pre-engineering pathway and has taken a couple community college courses. We submitted her SAT, 680/680.
She works part time, was a varsity athlete, played a club sport until 11th grade when she decided to volunteer coach instead (time commitment issues and no desire to play at the college level). She co-founded a very active club at her school (participated others prior).
Assume good essays (I am not a AO, so who knows). We don’t know what the counselor and teacher recommendations say, but believe they must be strong, right?
We considered this a reach, so this is very exciting!
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My daughter was accepted to arts and sciences! She felt it was a target school for her, and was pleased to be accepted, especially when reading it was their largest applicant pool ever. Congrats to all who got the news they were hoping for!
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Math
Honestly no idea but I would think so?
I was deferred for nursing (4.0 GPA, 1420 SAT, lots of hospital experience and demonstrated interest). I was accepted to Pitt and Penn State UP’s nursing programs, as well as a few others with merit so it was disappointing. I’ve made some decisions about my other options so I have decided to not go forward with RD/ED II… does anyone know where the withdraw button is on the portal? I’m having trouble navigating it.
Has Villanova’s terrible basketball team ever since Jay Wright left made it easier to get in?
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My child received an invite today for the honors program. She also just submitted her essays for the presidential scholarship earlier this week (she was notified of her semi finalist status with acceptance). Is there any relationship between the two? Thanks!
My DS also received an invite to the honors college this week. Does anyone know if honors kids get first dibs on class selection? Also, I heard the honors dorm is St. Monica’s. Anyone heard anything good/bad about that dorm?
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The honors dorm seems to change year to year. There is nothing at all wrong with St. Monica’s. It’s on South Campus, where freshmen prefer to be and the dorms are really similar. The “best” dorm is Good Counsel because the rooms are a tiny bit bigger and they have their own sinks. But really they are all similar. There are some older dorms on Main Campus that are notably worse but St. Mo’s and all the South Campus dorms are kind of the same. Honors does get much better housing sophomore year…in the Commons. Those are apartment style and newer and nicer than other dorms. I don’t know if they get early course selection but there are a lot of core courses that have sections that are only open to honors so that should help. Congrats.
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This is my first time posting in this thread. Congrats to all the students/parents of students who have gotten into Villanova and/or other schools.
My son has applied ED II to Nova (the VSB). I think that he’s probably a “bubble” candidate (to use a NCAA BB term). He has a 4.03 UW/4.37 W GPA (7 APs–all 5s and 4s). He took the SAT in the fall and scored a 1420 (even split of 710 Reading/710 Math). We gave serious consideration as to whether he should go TO or submit the 1420. Advice was all over the place, but he ultimately submitted. We understand those who say not to submit unless you’re in the top half of the current middle 50%, but given the standardized test score inflation over the last few years due to TO, his school counselor advised that if his score would have been above-average at a particular college during the pre-Covid era when everyone was submitting, we should still submit it. That made sense to us, but who knows.
In any event, as we understand it, the ED II decisions are scheduled to come out on 2/15/25, which is this coming Saturday. Does anyone know if they are likely to post the decisions on 2/14/25 (rather than over the weekend)?
Best of luck to all!
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Nothing to base it on other than looking at several other schools I don’t seeing any them releasing decisions on a weekend. I think it will be Friday evening 2/14/25.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Hope you got in!
Thanks for the helpful insight! If you don’t mind, what school is your kid in at Nova and does she/he like it? My son has applied ED II to the Nova Business School. I saw your post from last year in another thread about submitting test scores in light of the TO trend and found it very helpful. The college counselor at my kid’s HS gave similar advice. Fingers crossed!!
Best of luck to you son! My child is in CLAS. The business school is a slightly tougher admit but Nova does love ED - A LOT. My D is having a great year and overall happy. There are definitely plusses and minuses. She really doesn’t like the fact that the campus is not walkable to very much. There is a train, and she uses it, but it’s less convenient than you might think because it doesn’t come as often as she would like, especially on weekends. And she’d really just prefer to be able to walk to some coffee shops and other places. I would also say that the social/party scene is unusual. Parties are all off campus and, in general, you can’t just show up on your own or in an uber. Instead you have to pre-arrange a ride with one of a few specific designated drivers. They make it work but it does preclude - or at least make much more difficult - some of the organic socializing that I consider to be a more “normal” part of college.
But even with that, it’s still a great place. Beautiful campus, fun basketball, small classes, lots of opportunities. Just trying to be transparent about some of the pros and cons.
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