<p>I was waitlisted at Smith College, and I was wondering if anyone had ever been accepted at Barnard after being waitlisted/denied at Smith. Thanks! </p>
<p>Yeah same question actually. :3 Even more anxious about Wednesday now.</p>
<p>Smith was a last-minute application with a risky essay, no interview and, frankly, no interest.</p>
<p>Barnard, from my applicant’s experience, is more selective, but assembles a less hegemonous class – statistics and background wise, what I got from stalking the threads. This diversity comes from more room to express your personality and, specifically, the “why Barnard?” question. So interest, interest, interest, intellectual diversity, ability and ambition to handle everything NYC has to offer, and still chose Barnard for what it is. </p>
<p>So, I don’t know what are your goals and what you have put on your application, but a waitlist in Smith might be an indication that you’re roughly on the same page with Barnard stars/common app wise, and the rest is to your essays, and interview and visits, if you had them. </p>
<p>Good luck! 
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<p>I really don’t think it’s possible to determine if you’ll be accepted somewhere based on your decision at another school. I got into three women’s colleges with lower acceptance rates than Mt. Holyoke’s, but I was waitlisted there. Admissions are so unpredictable. Barnard might see something in you that Smith didn’t or just think that you’re a better fit. You never know. Good luck!!</p>
<p>Thanks for your replies- I definitely did not show a lot of interest in Smith and put a lot more effort into the Barnard application. I guess we’ll all find out. Thanks again, and good luck to you both!</p>
<p>This happened to me too. Waitlisted at Smith. Not to be cocky or anything, but I honestly thought I would get in. I got accepted to Boston University and I didn’t think I would get in there, so you just never know. I honestly have no idea where I stand on the Barnard radar. My grades and SATs are just mediocre, but enough, usually, but I thought my essays were semi-decent. Crossing my fingers! </p>
<p>D was accepted at Barnard and wait-listed at Smith. Since Barnard was her first choice, this was a happy enough outcome. Financial decisions come into play too, because Smith may be looking to allocate financial aid in a different way than Barnard does (and even need-blind schools can ferret out financial standards of applicants by zip code and extra-curriculars for example), and each defines its student body differently. They may also take into account differing impressions of whether or not the student will attend.</p>
<p>My son was accepted at Williams, Amherst, Wesleyan and Bowdoin and rejected at Bates.</p>
<p>He was accepted at U of Chicago and rejected at Tufts.</p>
<p>It is impossible to predict.</p>
<p>A young friend was rejected at Columbia and accepted at Harvard.</p>
<p>With these low acceptance rates nothing is predictable.</p>
<p>I was rejected at Barnard, waitlisted at Occidental, and got into Emory and Georgetown - you know never what’s going to happen</p>
<p>I was rejected at Wellesley and Barnard, but got into Smith!</p>
<p>Rejected ED by mount holyoke (not even waitlisted!) and i thought I had no chance for Smith. But Smith loved me, and it turns out SC was a better fit for me.
You can never tell.</p>
<p>I was rejected at Wellesley and Barnard (and secretly really thought I had a good shot at Barnard with my essays and transcript/scores/ECs/etc.) but was waitlisted at Smith. In fact, I ended up being rejected to a lot of schools (6/11 outright rejections) that I even seemed to be matches for. It really is unpredictable. </p>
<p>Plus, I think that certain factors that I failed to consider really hurt me more than I realized (i.e. the classes I took— only math up to pre-calc and science up to chemistry and only 2 years of foreign language). I wrote very passionate essays, for Barnard especially, and I think I really weighted them in my head as carrying more weight than anything else.</p>
<p>I hope you fared better than I did!</p>