<p>Post your decisions when they arrive. Good luck everyone. We'll shoot for a CC acceptance rate of 90%, sound good?</p>
<p>Well obviously people who don't get accepted are not going to be rushing to post their decisions, especially if they get rejected.</p>
<p>Well I stole this from the Columbia board, who stole it from the MIT board, who prolly stole it from somewhere else, but we can use it too. This way people will be able to see what type of person Swat was looking for this year. </p>
<p>Please delete the spaces between the brackets in the below code and then enter your information. At the bottom, you'll find an example of the format.</p>
<p>[ size=+1][ color=blue][ b]Decision: [ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>
<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT:
[ *] SAT IIs:
[ *] GPA:
[ *] Rank:
[ *] Other stats:
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Essays:
[ *] Teacher Recs:
[ *] Counselor Rec:
[ *] Hook (if any):
[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country:
[ *] School Type:
[ *] Ethnicity:
[ *] Gender:
[ /list][ b]Other Factors:[ /b]
[ b]General Comments:[ /b]</p>
<p>*Decision: *</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT:
[</em>] SAT IIs:
[<em>] GPA:
[</em>] Rank:
[<em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays:
[<em>] Teacher Recs:
[</em>] Counselor Rec:
[<em>] Hook (if any):
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country:
[<em>] School Type:
[</em>] Ethnicity:
[li] Gender:[/li][/ul]Other Factors:
General Comments:</p>
<p>This is my first post but...</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: Don't really want to list... but probably the biggest factor that could've got me rejected
[</em>] SAT IIs: Chinese 790, Math IIc 660, Japanese 800
[<em>] GPA: 3.9? (Take full IB diploma 6 subjects highest score out of 7 I was scoring 40/42)
[</em>] Rank: Top 10%
[<em>] Other stats: TOEFL 283, ALUMNI interview went REALLY well, went to visit Swarthmore over the summer
[/ul]
Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Really loved it. Why Swat especially people liked.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Didn't read but my math teacher must've written a great one
[</em>] Counselor Rec: I don't know, but he only had to write 13 for people applying early decision so he had time
[<em>] Hook (if any): Dual-nationality Asian, First generation, International applying ED? (no fin. aid needed)
[/ul]
Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Hong Kong
[<em>] School Type: Private
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian (half Japanese, half Chinese)
[li] Gender: Male[/ul]</p>[/li]
<p>General Comments: They sent me my acceptance letter on my 18th birthday! ECSTATIC and good luck to everyone in the US!</p>
<p>I thought they just mailed them out today?
Did you get it via email?
Anyways, congratulations! What a birthday present...so far cc is 1/1.</p>
<p>I got it by email! I guess all Internationals get it by email!</p>
<p>Wow. You certainly made your first post count! The first member of the Swarthmore Class of 2010 on College Confidential. Not a bad way to celebrate your birthday, either.</p>
<p>Congratulations, lalol...</p>
<p>I think I have to thank everyone on this forum as you guys have given me a lot of insight and information on Swarthmore.</p>
<p>Especially ID, your expertise and kindness towards everyone on this forum has certainly helped me a lot. Thank you so much!</p>
<p>Just found by e-mail that my S was accepted 2010. We are completely elated. He is at UN in Geneva all day and out of communication range but will log on later. Thanks to all of you CCers and best of luck. Hope to see you all in Sept. Thanks especially to you ID, my D is a Physics major and hope that our kids meet next year!</p>
<p>Congratulations to schoenhs!</p>
<p>Decision:Accepted!</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: CR 660/Math 720/Writing 760
[</em>] SAT IIs:Math IIC 800/Chemistry 800/Physics 730
[<em>] GPA:N/A
[</em>] Rank:my school doesn't rank,but I believe I'm in the top 10%
[li] Other stats:TOEFL 657+5</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays:common essay is good but could be better.I put a lot of effort on my Why Swat essay and I guess it should be impressive.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: one from my english teacher and the other from my biology teacher.Both of them know me very well,so I think the recs should be very good.
[<em>] Counselor Rec:fabulous
[</em>] Hook (if any):I had an interview with Ms Stacey Kutish,director of international recruiment,and the interview went really great!</p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country:China
[</em>] School Type:Public(one of the most competitive in my city)
[<em>] Ethnicity:Asian (Chinese)
[</em>] Gender:Female[/ul]</p>
<p>General Comments:I feel so proud and excited to be a swattie!!! </p>
<p>I'm still a little worried.The nofitication email doesn't mention anything about financial aid.Will they send another email regarding financial aid?Should I write an email to ask?</p>
<p>Thanks and Congratulations to you lalol from my son. Thanks to you we knew to check on line. He'll write himself when he's home from the United Nations.</p>
<p>yimei, congratulations.</p>
<p>thanks william~
&
congrats to lalol and schoenhs!!!
&
best wishes to all the EDers who are still waiting for the letter!(I'm crossing my fingers for you!!!)</p>
<p>WOW. Congrats to everyone who got in.</p>
<p>congrats to our international members of the class of 2010. now if only we nationals can be as successful.</p>
<p>Yimei and Schoenhs and our "new" member, lalol, hearty congratulations to all of you, the International branch of 2010. Continuing best wishes to our other ED 1 posters! Those letters should start arriving today for those of you who live close by, but for the vast majority of you it will be later this week. Take note that our accepted posters so far have mentioned the obvious effort that they put into the essays, especially "Why Swat?" The "fit' of the person to the college is oh so important, as has been repeatedly said.</p>
<p>hey, yimei, our high school is one of the most competitive in "our country", haha. Actually a feeder school.</p>
<p>Congatulations! I'm sure you will love Swarthmore. Now let's hope for our US applicants, who hopefully will hear today. (I think eventually Swat will go to all email notification, too bad it's not this year!)</p>
<p>ahhhh just please let me in! pretty please Swarthmore. haha. i am getting so anxious here in suburbia PA--you have no idea. how can these people sleep at night knowing that they hold my future in their hands? anyway, off to school i go. won't pay attention at all. i have a feeling i'll get my letter today.</p>