<p>this whole high school transcript business is freaking me out.....where I come from, no one tells you in 9th grade or whatever that4 years from now its important!! gggrrr...hehe i wish i could stop freaking out... as for filling up the next 2 weeks with fun...if you call midterms fun.....:(:(:( yes life is sad. by the way did anyone else use the additional info section in the williams supp to write something about "why williams"? i did like a short answer about that....dont know whether it seemed too eager? and yeah i received the purple post card and im an international who sent my app online...its all highly scary....</p>
<p>oh and thank you for the sympathy jrg6! :)</p>
<p>no problem heba, we Eph hopefuls have gotta stick together! :)</p>
<p>and yeah, I wrote Williams a little love note telling them why I was applying ED...they probably think I'm a nutjob</p>
<p>im applying ED..:( im sooo scared though..</p>
<p>Good luck on your exams, Heba. I'll hope the time goes by quickly for all of you.</p>
<p>two weeks left and i'm getting realllly anxious</p>
<p>jrg6..... anxious is an understatement!!! i totally get what youre saying. my issue is im asking for a full ride.... so if im rejected from williams which is need blind for intl's i might just get rejected from everywhere else! :( which happens alot by the way. grace.... ahh yes midterms. lets just say math was a disaster... as usual. but thank you for all the good luck....i think we all really need support from ppl like you right now!</p>
<p>I think you have Middlebury and USC also.
I am not sure about USC but know the school is generous to internationals.
Of course wish your good luck with W.</p>
<p>dancinghippo, elmtree, heba, jrg6, priceless28, qwerty555, and tmL (hope I didn't miss anyone) -</p>
<p>Just a note to all of you to say that I'm thinking of you. This waiting is really hard. I see my D trying to carry on, but feeling edgy. She had some sweet news last week with an honor in her sport. This week has suddenly been very cold (and without hope of the dusting that fell in Williamstown -- it is gorgeous there in the winter!). The sudden temperature change here is taking getting used to. Seems like lots of tests and the extra practices and performances and sports banquets should be a good distraction but it just feels like plodding, slogging. How I hope you'll all be moving past that into tap dances of delight in ten days or so.</p>
<p>Until then, take good care of yourselves. Positively spoil yourselves!</p>
<p>And know that I have my fingers crossed....</p>
<p>Thank you so much Grace, you are very very very kind :)</p>
<p>Seriously, tell your daughter 'hey' and to hang in there too, from one EDer to another!</p>
<p>Thanks so much. I hope you'll be classmates. I think that is the absolutely best thing about Williams: the people who are one's classmates and in the cluster of classes that are there during one's years in Williamstown.</p>
<p>Exciting thoughts. I'm getting way ahead of myself and had better go get some work done. I've been hanging out here so I wouldn't drive my D nuts with my hopes, anxieties, dreams, .... you know how it is. </p>
<p>Best to all of you.</p>
<p>Thanks Grace! (I'm qwerty555, i just had to change my name because i forgot my password and it wouldn't let me get it back...) Seriously, you ARE very very very nice! good luck to your d and everyone else here!</p>
<p>An article on the Class of 2011 national Questbridge ED matches highlights four students, two of whom will attend Williams:</p>
<p>Johannes and Joshua Wilson, twin brothers from New York, who will both
attend Williams College. Their single mother works two jobs as a home
health aide to support four children and her mom -- all while living in
Manhattan. Their father is dead. Both brothers are writing their own
novels. Johannes is active in service, and is chairman of the Specialized High Schools institute. Joshua has been taking classes at Hunter College on his own initiative. [sorry about the formatting -- I can't get it to budge]</p>
<p>I think that there be as many as 10 other Questbridge matches. They are basically considered separately from the regular ED pool. So they aren't really your competitors but more your potential future classmates. I hope they are doing tap dances of joy for being admitted.</p>
<p>They sound great. I hope you will all be classmates.</p>
<p>Your time will come...</p>
<p>hehe the atmosphere is getting so emotional- i hope everyone gets in, i really do...thanks grace. good luck to everyone and like grace said keep yourselves busy... im trying to keep myself detached to prevent myself from going nuts.</p>
<p>THANKS GRACE! I'm feeling more confident...nine more days.</p>
<p>In addition to the Wilsons, seven other Williams "College Match Recipients" were announced by Questbridge: Irtefa Binte-Farid (VA), Kim Bui (OH), Carla Cain-Walthe (PA), Yu Rim Chung (CA), Erika Garcia (TX), Chelsea Luttrell (AK), and Nicholas Williams (WA).</p>
<p>The complete list is here:
<a href="http://questbridge.org/students/class2011_match_profiles.htm%5B/url%5D">http://questbridge.org/students/class2011_match_profiles.htm</a></p>
<p>Above link did not work for me (missing "l" at end, perhaps). Try:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.ephblog.com/archives/003390.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.ephblog.com/archives/003390.html</a></p>
<p>Exactly right. The correct link is
<a href="http://questbridge.org/students/class2011_match_profiles.html%5B/url%5D">http://questbridge.org/students/class2011_match_profiles.html</a></p>
<p>Amherst ED letters apparently went out on the seventh -- snail mail, just like Williams's. The results are starting to trickle in on their board, if you are interested. Usually, there is a certain amount of overlap in interest and profiles among applicants to the two schools so the Amherst board can make interesting reading. You won't see all that much, however, as there are only two results posted right now and, judging from the numbers on other (much larger universities') boards, I would think that no more than ten Amherst ED applicants are CC readers who will post their results.</p>
<p>From posts there, it looks as though Amherst, like Williams, had a drop in ED applications (Yale did, too -- I wonder if there's a trend nationally). Figures in the 350 and 390 range are given as the total number of Amherst ED applications, with 38 outright rejected and the rest accepted or deferred. </p>
<p>Good luck to the Williams EDers. We are thinking of you.</p>
<p>Grace,
According to the Williams Record:</p>
<p>"The College’s [7%] drop in ED applications is on par with figures reported by Tufts, Wesleyan and Connecticut College. Schools that saw larger drops include Yale, down 15 percent, and Amherst, down 10 percent. Middlebury saw an increase in early applications by 7 percent. Harvard, Nesbitt said, “always manages to go up,” and posted an increase in early applications by 3.5 percent."</p>