I did too!! Congratulations!!
Congratulations to you too and everyone else that got in!!!
I got in!!!
My daughter was accepted, but sadly the merit aid was not enough for Mt. Holyoke to be a viable option for her. We are both disappointed as we both truly loved the school.
Congratulations to everyone! Best of luck to you all!
Congrats!
@txserenity , I’m so sorry to hear that. Confused though – didn’t I see somewhere that you were also planning on applying to Smith? They don’t really do merit aid at all 
@Pheebers
Smith does offer merit aid:
http://www.smith.edu/sfs/aid_merit.php
However, she did know Smith’s merit aid topped out at 20k. She decided to go ahead and apply just on the outside chance something changed. She definitely liked MoHo more than Smith after visiting.
Congratulations to all who got in.
My daughter was accepted ED last year.She just finished her first semester on a pre med track. She loves it there!
It is a very special powerful place…
Be prepared to work hard!
Applying ED2- Anyone else?
Re the merit aid – I should have been clearer. There’s not a lot of it. We attended an open house at Smith (really well done, BTW, I recommend it) and the FA officer was VERY clear that not only did they want 99.9% of their money to go to those who needed it, but also that they didn’t need to bribe anyone to attend Smith, thankyouverymuch. Glad my daughter loved MHC, actually.
The FA officer was patently incorrect.
Excerpts from an article published in The Sophian–The independent newspaper of Smith College.
Italics added.
Sigh…This thread has certainly gone off of the rails…yes, I read txserenity’s link above before I posted. I was just relaying what we heard from the Smith FA officer, who was very nice, and informative, and ran a great seminar. Perhaps things have changed since we were there in April, or perhaps the FA officer who ran the program did not accurately represent Smith’s mission as a whole. I am certainly happy that some people receive merit aid. Sheesh.
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The only reason I posted is because it’s a disservice to prospective students not to inform them of Smith’s substantial merit awards and policies.
The article was written before April, and nothing changed after April or since the STRIDE was created many years ago.
I have no reason to believe that you didn’t accurately communicate what the FA officer said. Nonetheless, the FA officer seriously misrepresented the fact that significant merit aid plays an integral role in persuading women to attend Smith.
Smith’s motive for offering merit aid is no different than that of the many colleges that use merit awards to attract the best students.
According to the common data set, there were 166 Smith College first year enrollees that did not apply for financial aid. Twenty-seven (16%) received merit aid averaging $10,762. So for over 80% of enrollees without financial aid, Smith is doing exactly what the FA officer said. But they do give merit awards as well. Perhaps, everyone is right. Congrats to all the Mount Holyoke students. Great school!
The numbers that you’re quoting are only for enrolled full-pay students. There were additional accepted full-pay students who were awarded merit aid but didn’t matriculate. Students who did apply for aid are awarded merit aid as well, so I don’t understand why the number of students who didn’t apply for aid is relevant to the fact that Smith does indeed attempt the persuade a significant number of students (+/- 250) to attend Smith by offering generous merit aid. The yield for all students awarded merit aid is ~20-25%.
If the FA officer actually said Smith didn’t need to bribe anyone to attend Smith, I stand by my opinion that her comment was inaccurate.
I also attended an event on campus at Smith last spring and I specifically remember the head of financial aid explaining that the merit aid was limited and not awarded often and that they were not affected by or motivated to give someone merit aid due to demonstrated interest (therefore it would only be given out to those they deemed most deserving). That being said, I did not like the school as much as I loved Mount Holyoke, so I have not continued to research all of their policies. In all probability, they could have recently changed their policy on merit aid since the event I attended. But this is the information I recieved while there, and I’m assuming that is similar to what Pheebers is trying to explain.
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The most financially or academically deserving? Certainly not the most financially deserving. The facts are that last year 27 enrolled first-year full-pay students received merit aid. Many more admitted full-pay students were awarded a merit award. 
Limited is relative. As I sated, ~250 students are offered merit aid.
Correct, my point was they give it to those most academically deserving. I should have been clearer in my previous comment.
And yes, limited is relative, so how much that FA advisor actually meant is unknown. But in my opinion, if ~250 of the ~1900 admitted recieved merit aid (13.2%), I would consider that pretty limited. However, if you’re saying that ~250 of the ~600 who actually enrolled (~41.7%) got merit aid, then I wouldn’t consider that as limited.
Information gotten from you and smith’s common data set 2015-2016.
Merit aid isn’t awarded to ED admits. Of the 1664 RD admits, ~250 (15%) were awarded merit aid. The question should be what percentage of the top academic applicants were awarded merit aid?
Hi txserenity -I have a daughter at MHC and one at Northeastern Univ - both very happy PM me if you want to chat