<p>From the acceptance letter:</p>
<p>"Davidson is well known for the outstanding caliber of its faculty and students and the extraordinary success of its alumni. We are convinced that you would add significantly to this honored tradition. With just under 4000 students applying for the 460 places in the Class of 2011, the selection process was extremely competitive this year, and we commend you on your record of academic and personal achievement."</p>
<p>How many people typically get wait-listed each year? Is that pretty much the same as rejection?</p>
<p>Finally the official acceptance. Now I don't have to keep contemplating "they wouldn't really reject you and then expect you to audition on campus for a scholarship you can't even use...."</p>
<p>Yay!</p>
<p>waitlisted...boo.</p>
<p>I reiterate serendipity's question?
...but is there any point, considering they will notify candidates from the waiting list AFTER may 1st?</p>
<p>^ Thats how it is with all schools. You have to commit to another, and then if Davidson accepts you, you have to choose.</p>
<p>whittierst, you are correct --- there is no way to know. Fortunately, we were well aware of that & covered all bases with applications to a variety of schools. D did visit Davidson and demonstrate interest, she is well-rounded & isn't really missing any pieces. She is NM Commended, AP Scholar, 8 APs by end of this year. However, she does not have any kind of hook, and she hasn't done any of the over & above academic things (like summer institutes, research, that type of thing). She is kind of disappointed --- who wouldn't take it personally? --- even though she knew from the start that it was a crapshoot. We are from MI, and hardly anyone from these parts has heard of Davidson, and fewer apply. Sigh --- it's a jungle out there!</p>
<p>Accepted! :) Still waiting on a few other schools before making any decisions, though.</p>
<p>I applied to Claremont McKenna, Drew, Davidson, NYU, Sarah Lawrence, UCI, UCLA, UCR, UCSB, USC, and Yale.</p>
<p>Good news from 5 of them, this is the first bad news.</p>
<p>gonna be honest, my hook was prolly Asian male</p>
<p>I too am rejected from Davidson. I am from Nepal, and my hook was Nepal since there were very few applicants from Nepal (or so it seems) to Davidson this year. </p>
<p>Good luck in better schools to everyone rejected from Davidson.</p>
<p>Just because you did not get in is no reason to say to yourself and others who did not gain admission "good luck to better schools." if someone is looking for a small school of this type there are, frankly, very few "better" schools. And the few that are either better known or better endowed, such as Amherst and Williams, are even more rigorous in their admissions standards. (That is not to say that admissions is not sometimes arbitrary and that one might get in to one school and not another--there are people who get in to Yale who do not get into Willliams, for example. Yale, incidentally, is not necessarily a "better" school than Williams, just better known.) So while disappointment of this and any other kind is always hard to deal, with please keep in mind that "good luck at better schools" is no the way to endear oneself to most Americans or anyone else, and not a particularly constructive way to minimize disappointment and spread hope. A simple "good luck" would be just fine. And that is what I would widh you and others on this thread who are still waiting for good news.</p>
<p>And congratulations to those who received good news yesterday.</p>
<p>Mattmom very interesting response to divincicodes. I was willing to let that go but by all means stick up for good ole' Davidson. The word better did annoy me, simply "other" would have been fine. But he was wishing luck to people and the implication of what he said was that those who were accepted to Davidson no longer needed luck. He was just rejected this is a hard time for him, I was willing to cut him some slack, but I understand your response.</p>
<p>mattmom - I too was going to let davincicodes slide with his little dig by giving him/her the benefit of the doubt that it was an ESL problem [e.g. see phrasing of his opening few words]. But the more I think about it, the more I realize he probably meant what he said and I appreciate your spot on response.</p>
<p>I totally agree with your sentiments mattmom, but I understand that divincicodes was probably a little bitter at the moment. When I was waitlisted at Wash U I did join in the many discussions about Wash U waitlisting its most "superior" applicants to create yeild protection, because I was hurt, bitter, and nursing a bruised ego. So I can understand where divinci was coming from, and choose to overlook that post. Who knows, perhaps he'll edit it ;-].</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone, and just remember, no matter what happens, you ARE going to college, a life changing, amazing experience, next year.</p>
<p>Accepted :-D
I'm an international student from two different countries (dual citizenship) neither of which is the U.S. I'm assuming that was my hook.</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone! I hope to meet some of you at Open House (Decision Davidson) on April 14th!</p>
<p>I agree that there are few "better" schools than Davidson, at least from an academic standpoint. There certainly may be "better" schools for a particular student, as my D had already decided --- but that is a personal decision. I think the dig was most likely a product of disappointment. It hurts to be rejected (either outright or by means of waitlisting). I do believe, though, that sometimes there is a reason for what happens, and that may lead to another school being the RIGHT one.</p>
<p>By the way, D got her waitlist letter in the mail today. About 10% of the class came in via waitlist the last two years. That is a pretty high percentage, which is good news for waitlisters. So for those of you who are waitlisted & still have Davidson as a first choice --- get busy putting together some info to impress the adcoms!! Best of luck.</p>