<p>Now that the admission decisions having been made ,share with us your thoughts on the process. Accepted. deferred, rejected, if you are attending or why you are choosing a different school. Best of luck to all.</p>
<p>Hello! I was accepted to Colby College and I will be attending in the fall! It was a really tough time to choose between the four I had narrowed it down to - Northwestern, UC Berkeley, UCLA and Colby - but I finally made my decision and I’m incredibly excited to be attending! What really won me over was the undergraduate focus, the friendliness of the student body, the small class size and the genuine enthusiasm to help each other out (this is probably along the same lines of friendliness, but it is an important factor for me).</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone else and wherever they’re going! Hopefully, I will be meeting many of you at Colby this fall!</p>
<p>Hi naivecandide. Congratulations! Your reasons for attending are exactly the reasons my first-year decided on Colby. She likes it that people are serious about academics but aren’t overly competitive and cut-throat. </p>
<p>Hope you enjoy COOT (my daughter still raves about it and has made her a Maine fanatic) and have a fabulous first year!</p>
<p>Thanks so much Tintern! Colby definitely sounds like the pinnacle of college experiences (well, for what I’m looking for at least).</p>
<p>Yes! I’m definitely excited about COOT! And I’m glad to hear that your daughter is having a great time at Colby! Do you happen to know which trip she chose? I’m thinking about base-camping.</p>
<p>Yes she did a base camp trip! It included hiking one (maybe more?) of the mountains adjacent to one of the Maine lakes. She thought the trip was a blast and it was a great way to meet other first-years. She developed friendships with several people on her trip.</p>
<p>Thanks tintern for your response! 
I’ll definitely check out base camping then.</p>
<p>naivecandide: Now you have been there for over 6 months. How do you like it so far?</p>