2017 Waitlist Discussion/Results Thread

Colleges and Universities A-Z Bryn Mawr College
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<p>Hey, girls! We can use this thread to share waitlist news with each other. :)</p>

<p>I received an e-mail from BMC earlier today titled “Your intent to remain on waitlist”. Did anyone else receive this message? Here’s the body:
“Dear [Name],
We are writing to confirm that you are currently an active member of our waiting list. We appreciate your continued interest in Bryn Mawr.
If you have decided to attend another institution and/or would like to be removed from our waiting list, please contact us as soon as possible at <a href=“mailto:admissions@brynmawr.edu”>admissions@brynmawr.edu</a>.
Please let us know if you have any questions.
All the best,
Office of Admissions
Bryn Mawr College”</p>

<p>I also logged onto my Virtual Bryn Mawr account, but, unfortunately, my waitlist letter was still on display at the Student Center. :frowning: On the bright side (maybe?), I noticed two seemingly new links under Finances and Financial Aid: “View Financial Aid” and “Accept/Decline Awards”. The problem is, I can’t remember whether or not these links were there when our RD decisions were posted (nothing telling popped up when I clicked on them, which is why I believe I may be overthinking this). Could you guys check to see if they’re also the case for you? Thanks!</p>

<p>And do you guys know the amount of girls that accepted spots on this year’s waitlist?</p>

<p>Good luck, everyone! Hope our dreams of becoming Mawrtyrs will come true! :D</p>

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<p>*Will you guys check to see if they’re also the case for you?</p>

<p>*And do you guys know how many girls accepted a spot on this year’s waitlist?</p>

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<p>So most likely I can’t afford to attend, but I hope that some nice girl out there gets my spot and can afford it! Good luck to everyone and remember that everything works out for the best…even if you have to attend University of Florida :/</p>

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<p>@rsffl95 - Have you tried appealing your financial aid?? Bryn Mawr claims to meet 100% of financial need, so you should definitely explain your family circumstances (why attending BMC would be financially unfeasible) and ask them to re-review your file! Make sure to emphasize that BMC is your first choice, but that UFlorida (or whichever college gave you the most financial aid) is currently your most affordable option. Then e-mail a scan of that school’s award letter to them and ask if they can match its offer. Good luck! :)</p>

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<p>@FirstMSur</p>

<p>I received it too!
And also my regional counselor emailed me and told me that they have accepted my files and I am welcome to send anything else I might consider relevant.</p>

<p>I hope it means they actually think about pulling us from the waiting list.
Cause otherwise, what’s the purpose of sending that email.</p>

<p>Oh and I think that accept/decline award link was there all the way. But that doesn’t change a thing.</p>

<p>Way to go girls!</p>

<p>@rsffl95</p>

<p>Even though I’m on the wait list and I want people to withdraw so that I get a spot, Bryn Mawr is just too good not to attend. Appeal the aid. Cause I’m sure they will meet the 100% of the demonstrated aid. Take the loan, cause as BM graduate, you will have a job that will pay the debt.</p>

<p>Good luck to all of you.
I look forward to hearing what they decided.
I also told them I’d like to be accepted for Spring entrance.</p>

<p>Does anyone know if that increases my chances?</p>

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<p>@Blue - I numbered my responses because I couldn’t figure out how to quote, lol. Please let me know if you get lost. Sorry in advance!</p>

<p>1) Did your regional counselor e-mail you just recently? Or did you receive her message in March, after you submitted your supplementary waitlist materials? My regional counselor only contacted me after she received my updates, so if yours did so recently, you probably stand a good chance of being accepted! No reason for her to show so much interest in you otherwise, right? ;)</p>

<p>2) I actually have two theories about the BMC confirmation e-mail: 1) It was only sent to “Likelies”—highly doubtful, though. 2) It was a mass e-mail sent to everyone on the waiting list. This makes more sense, because logic dictates that they’ll use its anticipated responses to compile their official, most up-to-date waiting list. They’ll make offers of admission based on these remaining files. (Good luck to us both!)</p>

<p>3) Awww. I was hoping it was new. :p</p>

<p>4) Same here. BMC may hold a record number of withdrawals this year, because there was a record number of applications submitted to all total institutions (same number of applicants + increased app output = greatly reduced chances of everyone getting into selective schools = crazy waitlists = unpredictable waitlist acceptances, which may work in our favor :D). While I don’t want to take the spot of an admitted girl who really wanted, but couldn’t afford, to attend Bryn Mawr, I would more than gladly jerk the seat from a girl who applied to 15+ reach schools (Ivy caliber unis and top LACs), figuring she “wouldn’t really mind settling for” her sole (or almost sole) safety of Bryn Mawr in the oh-so-surprising-whoda-thunk-it event that all her [unrealistic] dream schools reject her. I don’t know how many of these class-of-2017, self-entitled (or maybe just naive), impeccable-stats-but-truly-lacking-in-interest-of-BMC girls were accepted into Bryn Mawr (with such an application boom, there’re probably more than a handful), but I hope that each and every single one of them gets into whatever brand name school they so strongly desire, because many other girls with good, solid stats and an overwhelming passion for Bryn Mawr definitely deserve to jump off its waiting list and finally be able to call themselves true Mawrtyrs.</p>

<p>5) I didn’t know BMC offered Spring admission to freshmen! Thought that was only a choice for transfers! But if it’s an actual, albeit lesser-known, option, you may have an advantage! Certain schools, like Middlebury, have a competing Spring applicant pool. These students, called “Febs”, usually have the best stats, etc., but I don’t know if this applies to Bryn Mawr. Other schools merely open the spring semester (a time they know they’ll have enough room for X amount of diehard wannabe Marwtyrs ;)) to qualifying students they couldn’t admit in the fall. This may be the case for Bryn Mawr if such a program really exists. Again, though, this is just speculation!</p>

<p>6) In any case, good luck to us girls here! May has arrived, so I hope we all get positive decisions soon! :)</p>

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<p>@FirstMSur</p>

<p>1) Yup, my regional counselor emailed me after I double checked whether the admissions received my materials or not and she asked me to forward her the materials so that she would include them in my file. She also told me to feel free to send anything new in. Yep, I think it was ‘Likelies’ thing cause otherwise they’d receive so many emails that’d get baffled. </p>

<p>You are talking EXACTLY what I feel about this whole thing. There is one girl from Turkey who applied to all ivies + Stanford, John Hopkins, Amherst and Williams. And these last two by her measures were ‘safety’ schools :D. So after nearly everyone got rejected ED I from top 30 LACs she added Bryn Mawr to her list. She talked about Bryn Mawr like super safety school she’d go maximum for a semester and then transfer. She was laughing at relatively high acceptance rate.
Decisions came out and she only got in Bryn Mawr and got wait listed at UPenn. When I saw her she was like “girl, I seriously don’t know what to do, go to this all girls #26 thing or just take a gap year” I literally wanted to kill her, slap her in the face! I dreamed about BMC for so many years and I’d choose it over all ivies and prestigious name schools. And some idiot girl who can’t even choose between BMC and gap year takes my spot. </p>

<p>There should be some test just how much applicant knows/loves the school. The first time she saw the campus photos was when she received her acceptance. </p>

<p>This is just so unfair. I hope she withdraws but she already took my spot.</p>

<p>Bryn Mawr if you are reading this please accept us both cause we promise we’ll be the best students ever, contributing in a way we can to the vibrant college community and never even trying to transfer. :D</p>

<p>I’m not sure about the Spring thing either. I couldn’t find the info anywhere and as far as many schools offer it I just mentioned it in my letter I sent to regional counselor. </p>

<p>Yay, thanks! Fingers crossed for the both of us!</p>

<p>P.S I didn’t transfer my deposit anywhere. Neither to Drew, nor to Manhattanville. Not even to American Universities in Paris or Rome. And not even to Jacobs University Bremen. Cause I’d rather wait another year for BMC than go in any of these.</p>

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<p>Did anyone hear back? </p>

<p>I’m so nervous. I just wanna know whether they started moving people or not.</p>

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<p>:) Hey, I am also waitlisted by BMC HAHA. Think I saw you a lot in the thread of MHC wl.
So far, I did not hear any news about BMC’s wl, not like MHC. But I heard that getting off the BMC’s wl is much more difficult than getting off the MHC’s, so I am just worried about whether they will admit any from wl :frowning: SIGH</p>

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<p>@MaoChiMian</p>

<p>80% of those who apply to BMC also apply to MHC and vice versa :slight_smile: It’s natural.
Two prestigious girl schools, both consortium, both on the east cost. </p>

<p>You know, I doubt that it’s gonna be harder. Cause Darcy told me they have limited places and before they accepted those two people, it was even highly unlikely they’d accept anyone. BMC emailed us if we intend to remain on wait list and lots of girls from the decisions thread couldn’t pay(in fact idk why cause BMC meets 100% need) but still withdrew. </p>

<p>So if BMC emails girls saying do you intend to remain? It kinda like means they are going to take people off. And after submitting my files like two weeks passed and a regional counselor(I didn’t even contact her I emailed admissions) comes up and hey I received your files and send in anything you might consider relevant.</p>

<p>It’s not going to be easy but still easier that MHC I think so.</p>

<p>God I’m nervous. :frowning: I’m afraid of emailing anyone.</p>

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<p>And why are people less active here? :smiley:
MHC seems to be more popular. (or just wait listed more people :D)</p>

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<p>@Bluecholeric :slight_smile: Really hope so!
You remenber I said before that one of my fellow girls got off the MHC wait list with FA several days before. Can you believe that she is still very very hesitating about go to MHC or not :frowning: I mean I don’t understand if you are not really in that college why did you take the wl spot…or maybe good luck just never fall on the right people SIGH…hope if she decides not to attend, she will withdraw the offer as soon as possible…</p>

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<p>@MaoChiMian</p>

<p>You read my previous post about that Turkish girl, didn’t you? :slight_smile:
Yes! It’s driving me nuts. I’m dying for those schools and girls are off wait list who aren’t even sure whether they are going to attend or not. It’s just so unfair.
Tell her to withdraw so that any of us takes that spot. If she has other options it’s just so mean for us out there.</p>

<p>It’s not as much HER problem as it’s the ADMISSIONS problem. That they don’t see how much the motivation means. They just don’t appreciate the interest when in fact, it is a HUGE deal.</p>

<p>I mean if any of these schools admit me, I will die and work so, so hard to have high GPA and do something to stand out and make this schools a better place and somehow contribute myself to the college life. And if I don’t get in I will go to Lithuania or Germany or somewhere else and just work hard on my application when some girl who didn’t even want to get in sits in MHC or BMC and thinks of possible transfer options and just maintains decent GPA for herself only.</p>

<p>U N F A I R
it is.</p>

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<p>I emailed admissions and now every single ‘your item has been shipped’ email scares me.</p>

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<p>@Blue - Sorry for going MIA! I went out of town and forgot to bring my laptop with me. <em>smh</em></p>

<p>That crazy Turkish girl! Amherst and Williams as BACKUPS?! Those schools aren’t safeties for anyone! And I can’t believe she equated BMC with a gap year! For our sake, I truly hope she gets into UPenn.</p>

<p>So your parents are okay with the possibility of a gap year?</p>

<p>I haven’t received/heard anything, but I called Admissions last week and the woman on the other end said they’d literally just started to re-review our files. To her knowledge, no one had been accepted yet (this call was made last week, though), and she believed Bryn Mawr would notify all admitted waitlists this week. That didn’t make sense to me, because past girls had been accepted as late as June, so I asked for the exact date of when admitted applicants would be contacted by. She kept saying she thought May 17th would be the final day, but then backtracked and insisted that this was only her opinion because she wasn’t 100% sure. I hung up with the impression that she wasn’t all too familiar with the whole waiting list admissions process, but, in any case, I strongly suspect notifications will begin this week and continue until all seats have been filled. You should call Admissions tomorrow and update us with their answer! :)</p>

<p>As for why BMC’s waitlisted crowd is so quiet this year, I honestly have no idea. Seems like the years before us were way more chatty! :stuck_out_tongue: This thread has garnered quite a lot of views, though, so I’m sure people are reading—just not replying. <em>cups hands around mouth</em> Come out, girls! We need to talk up a storm! ;)</p>

<p>Like most schools, Bryn Mawr’s waiting list is not need-blind. It’s need-aware, so girls with high EFCs will have a better shot at BMC if the college is strapped for money this year. As unfair as that may sound, that’s the reality of operating as a business (colleges aren’t charities, after all). A lot of schools like to pluck students that are academically decent but more than financially competent from their waiting lists, so, at this point, most everything is out of our control. Unless your parents can afford to chuck in tens of thousands of dollars more, that is. But if Bryn Mawr isn’t low on money, they’re probably looking for certain girls to fill specific hollow niches; this is where “building a class”—or, rather, completing a class comes into play. If that’s currently the case, then let’s hope we’re rare and distinct enough! :D</p>

<p>Hahahaha, I know that feeling too well. My heart thumps every time something new pops up in my inbox.</p>

<p>@Mao - Good luck! I hope you get into the waitlist of your choice!</p>

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<p>@FirstMSur</p>

<p>I’m not taking a gap year. I’m going to either Jacobs University Bremen or LCC International University. Those two are in Europe, not so great schools so I’m going to re apply as first year anyways.</p>

<p>OMG, this week? What… Admissions should have emailed back by now. But they haven’t. </p>

<p>If I were Bryn Mawr I wouldn’t put a person who is not sure of what’s she speaking on the admissions phone. </p>

<p>17th is my graduation date. </p>

<p>Trust me that’s the case and just fingers crossed for us ‘bringing diversity’ :D</p>

<p>I don’t have phone. I don’t use it. Ever. I do use tablet and laptop and home phone and everything but cell phone makes me nervous. I hate cell phones idk why. When I’m taking a nap and it beeps it drives me nuts. Alarm sound drives me nuts. My mom calling drives me nuts. And I doubt anyone is notified the status via email. Why is it so hard to contact via email :(</p>

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<p>Has anyone gotten accepted off the waitlist yet?</p>

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<p>Not that we know… :(</p>

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<p>I got accepted off the waitlist today! They said they’d send me financial aid information tomorrow, I have to confirm within the next 4 days.</p>

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<p>@lalola - Congratulations!! :smiley: What are your grades, scores, extracurricular activities, and financial need? How was your essay? And what did you do/send in your attempt to get off the waiting list?? Thanks!</p>