<p>Yeah it is!</p>
<p>Maybe it’s down for a bit right now, I checked like an hour ago.</p>
<p>Congrats to those that were accepted. I hope your financial aid offers are bountiful. To those that were waitlisted, don’t lose hope. There will probably be more information about the waitlist process in the official notification letter that should be showing up in your mailboxes soon.</p>
<p>@QP, I got rejected from Amherst too. Ah, well. It happens. 
CONGRATS to you too! 
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<p>Anyone have financial aid stuff on their BannerWeb?</p>
<p>ACCEPTED really excited, but doubtful financial aid will come through, as so far it hasn’t with similar schools</p>
<p>I got accepted…but if I don’t get enough money, I’ll probably go elsewhere :(</p>
<p>ACCEPTED!!! someone should start an official thread…</p>
<p>There is an official thread; it’s the top one in the Smith sub-forum.</p>
<p>To those who are waitlisted, don’t give up. A young woman from my D’s high school was waitlisted the year before D applied. I wrote her an additional letter of rec…she got in. So if Smith is where you really want to be, a) let them know that they’re you’re <em>first</em> choice, and b) see what you can do about providing additional information. </p>
<p>Congratulations to everyone else. Now, I hope it’s not too hard to decide where to go.</p>
<p>I was admitted! I’m happy, but I got my estimated financial aid back from other colleges, which isn’t great. I’m not expecting to end up at my state college, but hopefully I can transfer into Smith next year. :)</p>
<p>I’m in!!
so excited!!</p>
<p>Congrats!!! :)</p>
<p>Would it be better to call admissions or fax them a letter or email?
Oh, I was waitlisted. I’m quite surprised, but it is what it is and I’m not giving up.</p>
<p>Accepted! I’m very happy, but since I don’t qualify for FA, I’m not sure if it’ll happen at full price…we’ll see. </p>
<p>Regardless, congrats to those accepted, and good luck to all those WLed!</p>
<p>PickUp, I would call Admissions and talk to them first. Explain that Smith is your first choice and ask them if there is anything you can do, such as provide an additional rec. Take guidance from what they tell you. Then send whatever hardcopy via snail mail.</p>
<p>Btw, if one of your parents didn’t do the optional parental letter, now is the time to do it. But, so sorry, most parents don’t have a clue of <em>what</em> to write. Admissions doesn’t want a gooey or fluffy letter about how wonderful you are. They don’t want something that’s redundant to your transcripts and other letters of rec and the student’s own app. What <em>is</em> helpful is for the parent to write a letter that reveals aspects and dimensions of the student that <em>didn’t</em> come out in the student’s app, transcript, letters of rec. A letter that gives them a better understanding of what makes you “you.” </p>
<p>Example: iirc, I started mine with an incident when D was about four years old and said, “Oh mother, I was transfixed” and went on to discuss her development of habits of mind. But it could be just as easily be something illuminating about your relationship with your dolls as you grew up or how you dealt with blowing a lot of money on some jeans you really didn’t like and how it changed your perspective, yada yada. Do you understand where I’m going with this?</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>TD</p>
<p>Got in after being deferred from ED…Yay!!! :D</p>
<p>TheDad, I wish you had posted that about a month ago. My parents definately wrote a bunch of gooey fluff for the parent letter. :(</p>
<p>Sorry, Felicity. Over time, I’ve seen a lot of prospies have an “ooh ick!” attitude about their parents writing a letter as part of the app. I suppose that should not have deterred me. It’s kinda in the same category as college students being grossed out that their parents are on Facebook.</p>
<p>^ hahahaha. I had that same “ooh ick!” attitude about my parents writing a letter. :-P</p>
<p>But would the “ooh ick!” moment have been worth it if it had made the difference between you getting admitted or not?</p>
<p>Personally, the stakes are too big to leave things to chance and words like “should” or “probably.” Smith was actually pretty close to a Safety for D, or so said Sally Rubenstone. Nonetheless, all her apps, including Smith’s, treated the school in question as if it were a Reach. (And judging by the results, Harvard, Yale, and Stanford were.)</p>
<p>The point is: don’t leave positive factors on the table. Imho.</p>
<p>Fwiw, as I recall, D didn’t wince at what I wrote. It was definitely my own words within the framework I outlined previously but I also wrote it with an eye to it not embarrassing her in any way.</p>
<p>^ That’s really nice. I probably should have taken the same attitude about not leaving positive factors on the table… I was just lucky that no letter didn’t hurt me in the end.</p>