A Few Questions...

<p>First off, has anyone heard word about the size of this year's ED applicant pool? Apparently some other schools make that data public, I don't know if Swarthmore does.
Also, I am a little concerned about something that might be peculiar to my school--first quarter grades. We only received report cards last Friday, the 11 (yes, my ridiculous school was open on Vet's Day) and counseling said they wouldn't have them available to send out until the 18th at best. Meaning, in the best of circumstances, my first quarter grades will get there a good week after the deadline of Nov. 15th. Is there a way that I should be letting them know the information is coming? My grades will help me and I just don't want to be screwed if mine is one of the first apps read.</p>

<p>Probably won't hear about ED applications until Bock puts out a press release or does an interview sometime in January.</p>

<p>As for your grade thing, you could just e-mail your regional adcom or the admissions office and let them know they are coming...then fax them a copy on Monday.</p>

<p>You don't have to send first quarter grades for ED. ED is usually based on grades through junior year, though you have to send in your midyear report at the end of first semester, and final transcript at the end of the school year.</p>

<p>200 apps.</p>

<p>I was trying to get an appointment with Bock, and heard mentioned from another source that he would be reading 200 apps in the Nov 28-Dec 1 period. I'm sure that is a rough number, but it is around there.</p>

<p>200 sounds low. They have been consistently getting 300 to 400 ED apps for quite a few years.</p>

<p>The 200 number does sound about right for the number that Bock would be involved with deciding after the initial run through the apps. Logically, some number from the initial pile would be fairly obvious acceptances and some would be obviously not. The tough admissions work is always the big pile between those two extremes.</p>

<p>I'm pretty sure that Bock and the admissions staff have usually made the initial run through the pile the first time before Thanksgiving. He gave an interview to the Gazette in Nov. 2003 in which he talked about what he was finding as he read the ED apps -- the Why Swat essays, etc. I remember being interested in the interview, knowing that my daughter's app was in that pile.</p>

<p>The number of reported Swarthmore ED applicants for the past few years has been in the low 300s . But that refers to ED1+ED2. About 200 ED1 applicants seems reasonable.</p>

<p>Yeah. Now that I go back and look, you're probably right. </p>

<p>For the freshman class in the fall of 2004, Swarthmore had a total of 311 EDI/EDII apps. In an interview on November 21, 2003, Bock said they had received 229 ED applications.</p>