Class of 2016 Admissions Rate

[Bossf51]

<p>Finally dug this nugget out of the Smith web site.</p>

<p>4,341 applications, the largest number in Smith’s history
1,838 applicants were admitted.</p>

<p>Works out to about 42%, down from last year's 45%.</p>

[mini]

<p>Sad. More perfectly fine would-be Smithies rejected.</p>

[Bossf51]

<p>Well as we know kids are applying to multiple colleges these days so you don’t know what the impact is/was. But I know people were interested in learning these numbers so I posted them for that reason.</p>

[bn12gg]

<p>And, the matriculation % is …??? I assume this year’s target is 650? David</p>

[Bossf51]

<p>That hasn’t been disclosed yet as they are still sorting through the waitlisters etc. But I believe I had read 640 as the target size but I could be off by ten easily.</p>

[TheDad]

<p>Mini, just about every college with competitive admissions is not admitting perfectly fine applicants. You should hear the squawks from UCLA applicant parents.</p>

[mini]

<p>And your point being…</p>

[CrewDad]

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Sad. More perfectly fine would-be Smithies rejected.

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<p>It’s possible/probable the percentage of rejected perfectly fine would-be Smithies educated in the US will significantly increase. Smith is quietly raising funds dedicated to increasing the international financial aid budget. The initiative has two purposes. Firstly, to increase the number of international students who are from the lower socioeconomic strata. Secondly, to increase the percentage of internationals as a whole. </p>

<p>MHC currently has an international enrollment of 24 percent. Smith’s international enrollment is 9 percent. Should Smith approach the percentage of international students as that of MHC, the result will necessitate admitting significantly fewer American women.</p>

<p>There’s no shortage of international applicants. China alone has increased American enrollment from 9,500 in '07 to 57,000 last year.</p>

[rocket6louise]

<p>Also, IIRC class of 2015 is 14 or 15% international, so they are raising it!</p>

[CrewDad]

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Smith is quietly raising funds dedicated to increasing the international financial aid budget.

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<p>Fundraising dedicated to international financial aid is no longer stealth.</p>

<p>Quote from a recent letter to alumnae seeking donations.</p>

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Let me tell you what your donation will help us accomplish. With your continued support, Smith will at once become more accessible to talented and ambitious women form around the world because we will have more resources to put toward scholarships and financial aid. Our campus will be more international…

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<p>Please don’t shoot the messenger. There are those who are furious that Smith is fundraising in order to increase the aid for internationals when there are so many U.S. students/families in need. One prominent alumna suggested to me that Smith would be better served to fundraise for the purpose of offering financial aid packages with few or no loans. </p>

<p>e.g

Amherst College has replaced all initially packaged, need-based student loans with grant assistance. This change in policy is intended to help middle income families applying to Amherst.

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<p><a href=“https://www.amherst.edu/offices/financialaid/firstyear_transfer/student_loans[/url]”>https://www.amherst.edu/offices/financialaid/firstyear_transfer/student_loans&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

[njcdmom]

<p>Agree with that “prominent alumna” CrewDad; it would be better to fund-raise to eliminate loans than to increase international student enrollment. Don’t mean to be harsh and I do believe Smith or any college is better for having a large diversity of students, but middle and lower income families need/deserve more help and having fin aid packages with fewer or no loans would be boon to lower income families and, I believe, raise Smith’s status (if that’s important to them).</p>