<p>I was at a reception this evening in Los Angeles for Carol Christ, the president of Smith. The tidbit that would interest the board most is that admissions decisions are going into the mail on Monday...apparently the very last few decisions are being made this week.</p>
<p>She also said that Smith (along with almost every other college, I suspect) had the biggest number of applications ever this year.</p>
<p>The local Smith clubs are already planning their recruiting events for the Class of 2010...I'm beginning to feel old.</p>
<p>Good luck to everybody, Thanks for the info, Thedad, we will camp out by the mailbox on the 24th. D was accepted into Davis this morning so at least she knows she has a place in the sun. The next few weeks will be interesting, I have cut down on coffee, lol. I will say that Smith has presented itself very well to our family.</p>
<p>My daughter is interested in religion and ethics, and I suspect if she listed a major it might lean into one of these. Her experience with mock trial leads me to believe she will eventually go down that path. She rekindled the team at her highschool and found an attorney to help coach it.</p>
<p>Congratulations! My d. ended up choosing between Williams and Smith last year. It's fun to be in that position! If you'd like to know why she ended by choosing Smith (where she is ecstatic), you can pm me. I'm also a Williams alum.</p>
<p>Mr. B, good luck. Sorry, I don't know anything about those who teach religion/ethics at Smith...just thought I'd fish.</p>
<p>As a side note, if your D is the studious type, which somehow I infer, I'd recommend asking for housing on Green Street. The one case of a local girl that I'm familiar with who is unhappy there is on the party floor of a party house. That negative has colored her whole experience via roommates interested in same. She's put in for Green Street next year. As someone else observed, you get the whole range at Smith, from very social to studious to the point of monastic. There's nothing wrong with any part of it but it helps if you're living in <em>your</em> niche.</p>
<p>Btw, it will come to a shock to some of the students on the Search/Selection forum, but one of the girls I know at Smith, an econ major, just got set up with a summer internship in Investment Banking. So many are convinced that you can't do it without an Ivy/AWS degree. (Me, I'd sooner just go directly to Purgatory and save the time but that's another story.)</p>
<p>I just met the sister of an art major at Smith. She told me that her sister, after having spent a year at the Smith program in Florence, and graduated, got a job as a computer design person for Benetton (in Milan, I think.) Spent three years there. But now she is in charge of some Italian university's exchange program between Italy and Japan! (she had also studied stuff about Japan while at Smith.)</p>
<p>We will see what kind of admission letter comes in the mail. I appreciate the information regarding house choices, as my D is an unusual combination of organizer with social skills but not a lot of interest in huge parties.</p>
<p>In other news, got a letter from Smith today. For 2005-2006, the sticker price is $41,024: $30,520 for tuition, $10,270 for room/board, $234 for activities fee.</p>
<p>For this year it was $28,930 for tuition, $9,730 for room/board, $226 activities.</p>
<p>She flew home for Thanksgiving and for Christmas. (She also flew home on short notice for my Dad's memorial service, taking off Friday through Monday). She stayed for Fall Break (what we would call Columbus Day four-day weekend). She stayed for Spring Break but says she wishes she had come home...campus is really dead; I think that perhaps instead she needs to be a little more thorough on making local plans...she's sometimes a "let things happen" person. She stayed with a friend outside of Boston for a few days and is now cat/house sitting for her chaplain. But I think with a little more planning she could have either made addtional plans for Boston or for NYC.</p>
<p>Other than campus being deserted during break, there is plenty do to.
Movies, music, dining, theater.... Her house is taking a road trip to Montreal over a long weekend in a bit. As a ballet dancer, she does not ski...a risk not worth taking...but I have been going downhill for years.</p>
<p>Some students are waaay more social than she is so if there's enough to keep them busy and in trouble, I'm sure there's enough for almost everyone.</p>
<p>D is so bored with everyone away. She called and talked for 90 minutes. I can tell that she's learning a lot and not just what's in the classroom.</p>
<p>She's spending the second half of break banging away at a Government paper and has to make an irrevocable decsion on a the subject for a research paper for her Number Theory class.</p>