Countdown.

<p>haha, i thought arador was just joking about it, but thats pretty sweet. good luck to everyone!</p>

<p>Welcome to CC, hovercraft :)</p>

<p>NJPitcher, I'm in Bergen County and as far as I know, I'm the only person applying ED to Swarthmore in my school.</p>

<p>I'm the only person applying ED to Swarthmore from my school as well. The RD applicant pool from my school should be pretty intense though.</p>

<p>I used to play baseball in Bergen, namely Upper Saddle River/Mahwah. Actually, I'm hoping baseball is gonna push me over the edge. Yea, having competition in ED from my school when only something like 300 apply early on a whole is kinda unlucky/discouraging. Ah well.</p>

<p>I can't believe I'm here already really. I remember last year thinking about how far away this seemed. I also remember thinking what hell waiting for the decision would be. This is worse than I ever thought it would have been.</p>

<p>Anyway, as I'm sure you guys have guessed I applied early. I've drawn a 'swarthmore doomsday advent calender' on my mirror and have been checking off the days. What fun! I just found out the letters get sent by main, and living in Switzerland I may have to wait a while. Ahh well, I've other choices but it would be so nice to get in.</p>

<p>Goodluck to everyone. I figure it all comes down to luck from our point of view at any rate. Thin envelope, ah how torturous. I was nervous enough opening the web page to check my SAT's for the first time. Although, the adrenaline made it all kind of fun... </p>

<p>Anyone have a favorite thing about Swarthmore? Mine is the non-competitive environment really. When it comes down to it what really matters is who I end up studying with.</p>

<p>You guys might be interested to know that apparently there were nearly double the ED apps from last year - 370 as opposed to 180 last year.</p>

<p>Oh hell, that doesn't bode well.
I really hope that doesn't translate to half the acceptance rate...</p>

<p>wow, does anyone know the relative number of people they'll accept this year ED?</p>

<p>Arador, the 2005 PR says there were 304 ED applicants, I assume that those are stats from the class of 2004 though (It's not the most recent, but the year before). However, With 304 ED applicants, 45% were accepted.</p>

<p>I was just talking to Jim Bock today.</p>

<p>The 304 number is probably ED I + ED II from last year. Unless I missheard him, Bock did say there were ~370 this year ED I. </p>

<p>They haven't read the apps yet, so they wouldn't have acceptance numbers, so those numbers must be from my year.</p>

<p>Ah, I forgot about the two rounds of ED..but 370 apps? Damn, I'm feeling worse and worse every day. Do you know when they start reading?</p>

<p>I just got a pang of terror, if that's a thing. I really don't see how they haven't started yet. If they start next week, assuming they don't work weekends, that gives them like 6 days tops to finish the apps. That doesn't seem logical to me.</p>

<p>I'd bet they started today. Theoretically they could do 35 a day, and be done but the 12th w/o a problem. 9 hours a day, thats like 15 minutes per application.</p>

<p>I don't know what the standard discussion time per application is, but I'd bet it was higher than that when they only had 180 apps. Damn, it got so popular.</p>

<p>yeah it did. hum wonder why, no one from my school before me has ever gotten into swat but like this year i know of about 5 or so people applying(the other 4 are RD).</p>

<p>Similar situation at my school. Few people ever applied to Swat, but this year there will be about 5 of us (myself included) in the RD round. Good luck!</p>

<p>If Swarthmore takes about 150 early and they have a about a 45% admit rate early then they must have had 300+apps early last year.Also, they must have started reading the apps. They are read several times.</p>

<p>I feel like the admit rate might be closer to 40 than 50 percent this year. I guess that's not that bad.</p>

<p>45% for both ED 1 and ED 2. They had 304 total last year. this year they apparently have 370 in ED 1 alone...they can't possibly admit 45% this year and maintain the same class size.</p>

<p>Technically, they could, but then they will have fewer RD spots left and a much lower RD acceptance rate. It makes more sense to me that they'd let both go down, rather than attempt to maintain the same rate for ED.</p>

<p>Guys, relax! There's nothing we can do now. I met several admissions people on my visits and I have faith that our apps are in capable hands. Two weeks to go...</p>

<p>Well, if the numbers in ED doubled its also probable that the RD numbers will do something similar. That means, the RD acceptance rate is already going to plumit (probably). I think they'll probably lower ED 1 almost exclusively but I dont think its necessarily a horrible thing for us applicants. If you think about it the kind of people there looking for wont change, and they'll still be trying to build a class. The only thing that will change is your percentage chance of being accepted. While a 1/4 chance is worse than a 1/2 chance its still higher than a lot of other schools ED at this level. Besides, we'll all know soon enough and not everyone was ever going to get in.</p>