<p>When Swarthmore has its day or days or weekend for admitted/prospective students, are the ED admits invited?</p>
<p><a href="http://phoenix.swarthmore.edu/2004-04-29/news/14038%5B/url%5D">http://phoenix.swarthmore.edu/2004-04-29/news/14038</a>
<a href="http://phoenix.swarthmore.edu/2003-05-01/news/13086%5B/url%5D">http://phoenix.swarthmore.edu/2003-05-01/news/13086</a></p>
<p>Two great articles about Ride the Tide. Unfortunately, neither directly state the answer, but I assume interesteddad, the parent of a past ED accepted student, will be along soon to answer it. Both of the articles stress the way Ride the Tide is designed to fetch RD students, so I'm not sure.</p>
<p>I did ED and I personally have not yet receive anything on Ride the Tide. I think willywonka is right in that Ride the Tide is mostly for RD students. But I think all accepted students can attend....</p>
<p>I should probably say that Dimensions (the Dartmouth admitted students weekend) is only for RD students, but the school has, in the past, welcomed ED students to find a host on their own and attend the events. The CC Dartmouth ED crew is making arrangements already.</p>
<p>Edit: The relevance is that if Ride the Tide is RD-only, maybe a similar deal can be worked.</p>
<p>Sure. ED kids are invited to Ride the Tide. A lot of them go -- considering that there were only 140 ED acceptances last year. My daughter went last April and had a blast. It really marked the mental end of high school and the beginning of college for her. I would strongly recommend it.</p>
<p>Here's a little secret about Swarthmore. It's a really small place with Swatties doing work study in places like the Admissions Office. They probably don't even know the dates of Ride the Tide yet, let alone have information ready to mail out. We called to get the information and they had barely settled on the dates in time to get el cheapo airline tix. An info packet finally arrived sometime thereafter.</p>
<p>If I'm guessing right, I bet this year's dates will be arrive on Wed. April 20th and leave on Friday April 22.</p>
<p>All admitted students are invited. For RD kids it is probably more important to attend, as they are deciding which school to choose. ED kids just come for the fun of it. You will not get any info about it until April (after the RD decisions come out).</p>
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<blockquote> <p>For RD kids it is probably more important to attend, as they are deciding which school to choose. ED kids just come for the fun of it. </p> </blockquote>
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<p>I think it is equally valuable for ED kids, but different. As an ED kid, you come home from Ride the Tide as a Swattie, having looked at things from the standpoint of being a college student there. I think it pays huge dividends in terms of making a stress-free transition to college in August, because there's already a comfort level. You then have the entire summer, not wondering what it will like, but rather having a very strong sense that college will be fun.</p>
<p>Scheduled activities include special lectures by some of Swats more interesting professors. These are designed to be like a class lecture, but with a more self-contained topic that will make sense without having done a bunch of reading. You can also sit in on regular classes. My daughter had kind of narrowed down some departments for potential majors, so she tried to go to a class or a lecture in each of those. If I recall, they also had "lunch with a professor" -- one or two professors at each table in the dining hall -- and was able to sort out some of the confusing aspects about placing into math sections, which physics course, etc.</p>
<p>They have panel discussions. For example, one professor talked on who should and shouldn't go to Swarthmore, which was kind of cool.</p>
<p>She also did an afternoon with Swarthmore Women in Science, building and launching rockets. </p>
<p>She got next to no sleep, so that was good training!</p>
<p>I don't know why Swarthmore would discriminate against ED applicants by not inviting them. Of course, ED students get to go! This year (class of 2008), Ride the Tide was on or around April 9th..</p>
<p>Thanks, everyone! I told my daughter she'd indeed be invited (--Achat, I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that some schools don't invite the ED applicants since they've already got a lock on them and don't have to woo them in April--) and the kinds of things she could expect, and she's absolutely thrilled.</p>