<p>I'll chime in an ditto Becky.
I came out of CWE with people in my group who in my mind were so much smater than I was. But I had a great weekend, and fell in love with a school. Like Becky, I was waitlisted. Every hope I had was crushed. (well, being waitlisted by my other top choice later that week really didnt help that case)
Unless Im wrong, I think the book on scores and such is closed now. Now they look at you. How you would fit as a person here. Being that we are so small, this is a big question. every one person makes up a big percentage of such a small place.
So CW is all about having fun, seeing if Olin is a "fit" and just relaxing about the scores. In 30 years no one will care what you got on the SAT, what your GPA was, or where you went to HS. Heck, I dont think many people will care where you went to college as long as youre doing a good job of what ever youre doing.</p>
<p>I just found out that I'm a candidate (Feb. 24/25) this morning. I think UPS delivered the envelop yesterday and left it on my sidedoor step (which we never use) and my dad saw it while we were pulling out of the driveway to go to school. What a pleasant surprise.</p>
<p>Stats
ACT: 32
SAT IIs: 740 Physics, 740 MathIC, 710 Math IIC (site didn't specify and other schools I applied to allowed 2 math SATs)
GPA: 3.98 UW, ~1/310, average school
APs: No ests, taking Calc AB, Bio, and English this year.
Essays: Eh, I thought my first essay could've been better, but I had an interview, so I think that helped.</p>
<p>Other stuff: I do a little skateboarding, play the piano, have a pet iguana. I'm a first generation college student (parents immigrated from Poland). Help my dad with his small carpet cleaning business and help my brother run a nightclub he bought last year.</p>
<p>I was definately not expecting to be invited, but I guess when Olin says they unusual experiences, they aren't lying.</p>
<p>MattBowes, I'm pretty sure I'll be attending alone (mom doesn't know yet), so I could possibly room with you at BECC.</p>
<p>I was also wondering if there's any free time during the weekend. Since plane tickets are so expensive, I was hoping to visit MIT while I'm in the area, so if any Oliners remember if there was any extra time last year, I would appreciate it.</p>
<p>Truly, the focus is off anything you put on your application. It's going to be about how you think, express yourself, and work with groups. </p>
<p>In the past CW activites started about 2:30 in the afternoon. If you want to visit MIT, you might want to try to do that on early Friday afternoon, before CW.</p>
<p>and as I remember things ended early sunday so you might have time then
Someone tell me if im wrong</p>
<p>came home and didn't see a ups package, went to the mailbox and there was a letter, with a little blue and grey logoed envelope. i knew it before i opened it. but for any of you trying to figure out when rejections come, they're just via USPS, and i live about 45 minutes from olin, so they probably sent those on friday with the rest of the letters. congrats to everyone else and good luck to those of you who haven't gotten it.</p>
<p>-jake</p>
<p>Looks like it's hopeless at this point. Everyone seems to have gotten their acceptance letters yesterday. Now rejection letters are starting to spill in. Looks like it's goodbye Olin. Meanwhile, congrats to everyone who has been accepted.</p>
<p>German88 ~ I don't quite draw the same conclusion...if you did not get an acceptance, and you did not get a rejection letter like crtfdgk above talks about, then wouldn't it all be up in the air?</p>
<p>I notice that no one has posted that they were accepted today...seems like the UPS pachages are not arriving to me.</p>
<p>But then, maybe I'm in denial...</p>
<p>Well, Germans88 is assuming that next day air would have most likely arrived yesterday, making an invitation increasingly unlikely with each following day.</p>
<p>got my rejection letter today too:-( Oh well.</p>
<p>Congrats to all the candidates - and best luck at CW</p>
<p>The CWE letters went out via 2-day guaranteed delivery UPS last Friday. UPS will leave a message of its attempts at delivery. So if you dont have a UPS letter or a retry slip by now, then unfortunately a letter of invitation is not on the horizon. You will get your rejection letter via snail mail sent last Saturday (translates into Monday for postal worker). Sorry, for the bad news and congrats to those who have their CWE invitations in hand.</p>
<p>Wait, they sent acceptances faster than rejections? Wow. Do most colleges do that? That's not very nice...</p>
<p>Also, does anybody have any idea what CWE will be like? Like our task... is it going to be a case study, a building thing, a series of activities... Hehe, I'm at boarding school right now so I don't even get to read my package for a while. Does anyone from past years wanna give us some idea what goes on?</p>
<p>It will involve meeting Oliners (current and future), group work, an interview, and lots of fun. </p>
<p>That's really all you need to know. It's really better that you don't know everything about CWE ahead of time. It's more fun that way.</p>
<p>yay, me too!!!! i'm stephanie, and i was invited to the feb 24-25 weekend!!</p>
<p>i have never been a fan of the obsession with stats (it's only one side of the story), but i guess i should post mine:</p>
<p>Stats
ACT: 36
SAT I: 800 math, 800 verbal, 800 writing (but not all in the same sitting - i was sooo close)
SAT IIs: 780 chem, 800 Math IIC, 800 US History
GPA: 3.9-ish UW, 2/400-ish, suburban, white-majority school
APs: uh...a bit more than 5? i'm taking 3 more this year.
Essays: not that good, but good enough, apparently... i also had an interview.</p>
<p>Other: i'm a bit lacking in the "coolness" factor, sadly... piano, hospital volunteer, free tutor. at school, i do math team, speech, science olympiad, and tennis (captain of the first, and notable awards in all but the last). i'm ridiculously into math (lots of college courses, plus summer research), and i also love making things with paper, especially origami.</p>
<p>How come the February weekend seems so popular on here? Did anyone get into the March one? I need a roomy, especially since I'm staying there for two nights.</p>
<p>^Ditto. March weekend here as well, and will stay for two nights... but am female. My parents are too overprotective for coed hotel rooms. :sigh:
Will need to stay at BECC.</p>
<p>To elladorkess,
I'm going to the March weekend also. If you can't find anyone to room with you, I am going to be staying at the BECC for one night, and I wouldn't mind splitting a room. I understand if you want someone for both nights, though. You can IM me; my screenname is in my profile. In any case, I'll see you there!
-Jessi</p>
<p>PS: For those of you who are wondering about why the letters came the way they did, the Dean of Admission addressed this in Emily's blog on the Olin website.</p>
<p>I'm kind of bummed that we aren't staying in the dorms. That would've been so sweet! I'm on bed rest with something similar to strep throat right now, so I've been spending wayyyy too much time reading the package. </p>
<p>For those of you who are traveling alone, the sooner you send in your yellow Candidate Travel and Medical Information cards, the sooner you get a roomie. =)</p>
<p>This package is quite amusing. The whole "send a photo and short bio" thing is hilarious. They are going to show power points of us before we come!!! I love it! hahaha. Wow, I am so excited. </p>
<p>Congrats to all who made it!!!</p>
<p>congrats to everybody who made it into candidate's weekend, and apologies to all of those who didn't. being a prospie was a lot different for me than it will be for you guys, because xforums was still around (<em>sigh</em>). I think you guys should listen to ash and becky when they say that your scores don't really matter any more. Next year, pretty much wherever you go, no one's going to care how many aps you took or what your sat's were. You might get asked once in a while if someone's curious, but it isn't a big deal.</p>
<p>Other advice: send a reaaaallly reaallly nerdy picture for the slideshow. just kidding. that picture is going to stick with you for a rather long time, so make the most of it. oh, and everyone uses oscar wilde quotes. it really isn't that creative to quote him.</p>
<p>and for good measure: sorry you guys can't stay in the dorms. i would have really liked it too, but it really isn't feasible because we students need somewhere to sleep for the weekend. :-)</p>
<p>feel free to im me (crazydeathyak) whenever i'm on, which isn't often. just make sure to say you are a /prospie/former prospie/you have heard of olin before/ or i won't talk to you.</p>
<p>enjoy your work-free hours while you still have them!!
Molly 09</p>
<p>Hmm... I heard that the design you do really doesn't count that much toward admissions, and it's more the interviews that matter. Is that true? If so, what kind of advice could you give us on what's going to go on? Considering this <i>is</i> still part of our admissions process, I'm a bit stressed.</p>
<p>a quick calculation might remove some of your worry.</p>
<p>they want to fill a class of 80, and the percentage of acceptees who enroll is 57% (data from princeton review). This implies 140 acceptances, and this does not include the wait list which guarantees at least deferred admission... given 170-180 candidates, I think they just want to weed out some people here and there.</p>