<p>yeah the Walter one. It's funny because I'm terrible at physics!! Yeah, I live in Washington so hopefully you'll get your letter soon. Everyone at my school got their letter yesterday, except one guy I know.</p>
<p>I got my package today!</p>
<p>Now I have to wait for the financial aid office--bureaucrats, JK!</p>
<p>Oh man, I am so excited. See you guys in the fall? :D</p>
<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>WF</p>
<p>Surprisingly and frustratingly, nothing from Whitman in today's mail in Oakland, CA</p>
<p>I'm in Seattle and I didn't get anything today
My friend got it yesterday.</p>
<p>Now I'm pretty sure I got rejected.... off to UW/Lehigh i am!</p>
<p>Just got mine today and I'm in Reno, Nevada(first class mail).</p>
<p>I got that Walter Scholarship too!! I don't think I'm going to end up at Whitman, but that's still exciting!</p>
<p>(ps. Rix, I'm from Oakland, CA and I got it Yesterday.)</p>
<p>WF: What did I tell you buddy!! I am very happy for you and we will have to have lunch during move-in!!!</p>
<p>And congrats to all those that have recieved their acceptances as well.</p>
<p>I received my acceptance package with scholarship today. No idea if I'm going...</p>
<p>Oh! I got my denial today. :)</p>
<p>I took it surprisingly well, considering that Whitman was previously my top choice. The letter was nice and simple, and it said they will keep my file with them in case I decide to apply as a transfer candidate next year. I'm not going to take them on that offer, though.</p>
<p>I'm off to Lehigh! Have fun everyone - in Walla Walla WA!</p>
<p>errrrgh.. still nothing in today's mail.</p>
<p>CD: on campus or downtown? :D</p>
<p>You choice WF! But, there is a great restaurant downtown that has natural foods and such that my daughter loves. We can exchange cell phone #s through pm or email.</p>
<p>CD</p>
<p>My son was accepted into UW, Whitman and Occidental after getting rejection/waitlisted at all the other schools he applied to (most were top tier, big schools (Stanford, Harvard, Columbia) as well as LACs (Carleton and Swarthmore - waitlisted). I believe Whitman is the better choice for him....but what do I know? I'm just the mom :)</p>
<p>He's rather quirky, and listens to classical music and old movies for fun. Also has a black belt in tae kwon do and is a fanatic downhill skiier. He wants the most challenging intellectual community he can find...but says he can't go to school for 4 years in a place only known for growing onions!!!</p>
<p>He's still lamenting his rejection from Stanford yesterday...but, when he comes out of his funk, I'm hoping he'll agree to attend the informational day on April 15th. </p>
<p>Any information any of you can provide to help sell Whitman will be greatly appreciated. I know once he visits, he will fall in love with the place...he just needs a bit of assurance that Whitman is a great school and that Walla Walla really isn't such a bad place to hang out for 4 years.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>My D will be going to Whitman--first choice, ED2. Have you visited? The locations of W and Ox couldn't be more different unless they were on the east coast. Southern CA/LA has many charms if you are a certain kind of person. My D chose Whitman mainly for four reasons: 1) She had a great time when she visited and found the kids to be unaffected and friendly 2) she likes their Bio program and thought the class she sat in on to be stimulating w/everyone participating 3) she's into climbing and roughing it in the outdoors and 4) she thinks the pacific no.west is a better fit for her than soCal. Her main regret is that she also loves being in a big multi-racial public school and living in a community like the east bay. She is just a bit worried about the smallness (and the whiteness) of Whitman, but it's hard to imagine any choice that doesn't involve a sacrifice. One thing about the town: we really enjoyed it, and for a smallish place it doesn't feel provincial. It sounds like there's plenty of downhill skiing in the winter, 45 minutes from school, and if you look at the OP list of trips, there is also plenty of opportunity to snowcamp, cross-country etc. if he's into that. I know several current Whittie parents whose kids are very happy at W and who have only great things to say about the school. All three are therapists, and feel that W does a wonderful job of building a really nice community of kids (my D thought some of the other LACs she visited felt snobbish) and that the college is supportive without being intrusive. I am also told that they do a very good job of matching roomies and that the jr and sr residents in the frosh dorms are on top of it. So, here we go.....</p>
<p>I called the A.O. this morning to ask about when decisions were mailed, and the person answering the phone said they were mailed yesterday?!? When I mentioned that I knew of people who had already received decisions, she seemed.... puzzled. She said some scholarship recipients were mailed earlier. But I know someone already posted a rejection, which is definitely not a scholarship, so... honestly, it would seem the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing here. If nearly every other school can notify by April 1 either by mailing earlier or online, you would think Whitman could manage it too.</p>
<p>Sorry for the rant, but Whitman is the only school my D has not heard from, and we're trying to figure out where we have to travel in the next couple of weeks, and make arrangements. It's expensive enough to fly to WW, without doing it on a week's notice! </p>
<p>upinwashington: My D was rejected at Oxy, but waitlisted at Kenyon and Scripps. Go figure! Walla Walla and Whitman are looking better to her, now that Oxy is not an option. She liked Whitman a lot and decided it wasn't a completely uncivilized place after seeing that there was a Macy's -- but we were there during a 2-day break so she didn't get to go to a class or see the campus on a "normal" day. But she loved Oxy. I think Whitman might be a more intellectual environment than Oxy, don't know about the difference in challenge. Oxy is significantly more diverse, and there is a lot to be said for going to school with people with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences. It has a huge impact on life in and out of the classroom.</p>
<p>Which school did he like best after Stanford?</p>
<p>Oh, tell your S to check out the W ski team--it's a big deal.</p>
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<p>That may be its reputation, but many of those onion and wheat fields have been turned into vineyards the last 5-10 years. There are now 75 wineries in the WW area (vs. ~5 more than 10 years ago). </p>
<p>For a small town, WW has a lot of charms - some nice older, preserved/restored architecture, tons of wine-tasting rooms, more good restaurants than a town its size probably warrants, and a symphony (I went to a very well-attended baroque concert when we made a campus visit in Feb.). All but the last I attribute at least in part to the "wine culture" coming into the Walla Walla valley.</p>
<p>I'm an Oxy grad and my son will be a first-year at Whitman next year. I actually find the two school comparable in many ways, which is good, because I loved Oxy and my son wouldn't even go look at it after he visited Whitman. What I came to love about Whitman (and what I also valued about my Oxy experience) was the friendly, supportive community and the level of student/faculty engagement. Whitman's rural setting does draw a less diverse population, but their stats in that regard show steady improvement and the certainly seem to strive to develop students as culturally competent citizens. (There was a very impressive student-faculty study published on Latinos in Washington state, for example; there are some special Asian travel fellowships). Oxy has been a leader in promoting opportunities for local minority groups for decades and definitely makes use of the city as a place to learn. Music is strong in both places. Whitman has some amazing performance facilities, in part I think because the local region supports it as a cultural center. (They do 8-12 major theater productions a year, have several major music performance spaces) Oxy of course, has the city. When it comes down to it, I don't think you can go wrong if you trust your son's sense of where he would most like to be for the next 4 year.</p>
<p>DD received her acceptance today in Everett, complete with Brattain scholarship. We'll need some additional FA to make Whitman doable, did that come with the acceptance package, or separately?</p>
<p>Acceptances at Whitman, UW Honors, UChicago and Dartmouth (but not Yale, which was the 'grail' school. At 5.8% RD acceptance, mere mortals need not apply). How's that for spreading the geographical pie. Good thing I have a bunch of Freq Flyer miles...</p>
<p>All have slightly different strengths. It'll be a tough decision.</p>