bigblue78 (2017-2018)

Some clubs, member of a fraternity, will graduate in three years, one underage drinking ticket on my record

9/21: emailed Wash U and changed my application to Binding Early Decision

The only two schools marked complete are ASU and WashU, since LOR's are not in yet

9/26: Interview at Wash U in person

Accepted into Arizona State via phone call

9/29: Carried over to Wash U's regular applicant pool, as I expected, the full tuition scholarship that comes with Early Decision acceptance was a long shot anyway

9/30: Received scholarship packet from ASU in the mail, was asked to keep the amount confidential

10/2: Accepted to Miami via phone call w/ full tuition scholarship

10/6: Accepted to Alabama via phone call w/ $30,000 per year scholarship and offer to fly me down to Alabama for a visit

11/14: My final LOR was processed and all applications are now marked complete except for Northwestern, where I still need to interview

11/20: Accepted to George Washington University via email with $45,000 per year scholarship

11/28: Accepted to Arizona via email

11/29: Accepted to William and Mary via email

12/1: Scholarship email from Arizona in the amount of $31,000 per year, which comes to full tuition plus 2k/year stipend

12/2: Scholarship packet from William and Mary in the mail with $35,000 per year scholarship

12/7: Accepted to OSU via email

12/12: Accepted to Iowa via email

12/13: Waitlisted at Minnesota, I withdrew my name from the waitlist

Completed online interview with Northwestern

12/18: Accepted to Indiana w/ full tuition scholarship via email

12/21: Scholarship email from Iowa: $44,000 1L, $24,000 2L and 3L, with the chance to work as a research assistant in the last two years to give me in state classification, so almost full tuition scholarship, will be hard to pass up

12/27: Full tuition scholarship email from Ohio State

1/8: Applied to the University of Illinois, my home state's flagship campus

1/9: Waitlisted at Boston College, withdrew my name from the waitlist

1/16: Acceptance packet from Emory in the mail w/ $39,000 per year

1/22: Rejected from SLU via snail mail?

1/30: Rejected from USC

2/5: Waitlisted at Notre Dame, chose to ride this one out

2/10: Sent Iowa, Indiana, and Ohio State offers to William and Mary, they upped my scholarship to $114,000, or $38,000 per year, it was $35,000

2/20: Rejected from Northwestern

2/22: Waitlisted at BU

3/5: Waitlisted at WashU

3/17: Accepted to Illinois with a full tuition scholarship, with more info on the way. I hope that this scholsarhip includes fees as well, since the fees at UIUC are $4,300 per year, which is substantially larger than at other schools.

4/1: Submitted a deposit to Ohio State, and withdrew from Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, and William and Mary. Staying on the waitlist at WashU, Notre Dame, and Boston U, but unless I get into one with a large scholarship, I will be in Columbus in the fall!