<p>but you can't apply ED II to swat again, can you?</p>
<p>Well, no, but you could apply EDII to a less competitive school.</p>
<p>I know I haven't been too active on this forum or anything, but I thought I'd let people know I got accepted. See some of you next year! Congratulations!</p>
<p>rejected. i officaly hate that letter, "we know it's hard not to take this as a personal rejection" I kinda wish they'd jsut tell me i didn't get in and leave it at that. oh, well. i'm actually ok, except my mom is freaking out at me</p>
<p>I guess deferral isn't that bad. I thought it over, and realized that it could really just be a blessing in disguise. Now my options are open to other schools, but I still have a decent shot at Swat. </p>
<p>I think that whatever is supposed to happen will happen. I'll just have to wait and see.</p>
<p>no it's not bad. my counselor talked to one of the adcoms and she said that my application was positive and good stuff blah blah and i wasn't deferred because i lacked anything. sooo.. like pastafarian said it could be blessing in disguise.</p>
<p>I was deferred also. It was a somewhat nicer deferral than I thought it would be. "While I understand that this decision may be a disappointong one, please be assured that a deferral... means that you are regarded as a competitive applicant to Swarthmore." </p>
<p>I love the "blessing in disguise" idea, but it still hurts. Anyway, there seem to be many of us (deferred ones) at the moment.</p>
<p>I feel 1/3 accept 1/3 defer 1/3 reject right now in the forum,, that scares me a lot. assume about 420 applied to ED, it's 140 deferrals.</p>
<p>you are deferred, then you still have a chance of acceptance later.
Don?t consider that the same as a rejection. Conventional wisdom, when deferred, is to send in an updated letter and additional recommendations.</p>
<p>What wonderful optimism! The key word is "chance." Thanks for including it, otherwise, I'd think you were insane. </p>
<p>This is interesting.</p>
<p>Believe me, being deferred from your top choice is SO much better than being outright rejected.</p>
<p>If I were deferred I'd be at Swat RIGHT NOW, stalking the admissions people.</p>
<p>Ah! It's brillar! You've replied to me! I love you, by the way. You and your tuna eyeball... I think it was a tuna eyeball. Taken out of context, that statement's somewhat odd. </p>
<p>I apologize. Complaining wasn't very astute. I don't know you well, but you seem to be a very interesting person. Swarthmore missed out on a lot of fun.</p>
<p>I'm just scared at the moment. I got my deferral in the mail a few hours ago, and I want to do something. I guess I would be stalking the admissions people too, if the four thousand miles of ocean and land between us wasn't a problem.</p>
<p>Swarthmore just denied my friend outright :(
she was quite unhappy, even though she knew it was always kind of a long shot.
Congrats to those who are in, and to the deferred, I'll see you in the RD applicant pool. And my sympathies to the rejected, who I suspect will be alright in the end anyway, because if you applied to Swarthmore ED you have the right ideas about an educational experience, and you have it within you to get the most out of your undergraduate education no matter where you find yourself for college.</p>
<p>Haha, yeah, that does make stalking a little hard. Long distance stalking is still possible, I guess, if you are willing to send a lot of emails or mail a lot of supplementary stuff. Good luck, by the way. And thanks, hehe. And, yeah, it was a tuna eyeball. </p>
<p>Eh, I didn't mean it to come out harsh- I guess having a lot of overachiever friends is finally getting to me. Everyone is getting into the Ivys/Amazing Schools of Their Choice and I'm sort of stuck. Ugh. </p>
<p>I can understand complaining from you... I probably would have too if I were deferred... I wouldn't have known the pain of rejection, hah.</p>
<p>And you're definitely not the worst- I know someone who was accepted to an Ivy and was complaining because now she couldn't apply to the other Ivies and see if they'd let her in too. Craaazy.</p>
<p>Your friends are more fortunate than mine, apparently. Everyone at my school has been rejected or deferred, with two or three exceptions. ...even a guy with straight A's, a 2320, 3 years of varsity water polo, who is editor of the school newspaper, taking multivariable calculus, and ridiculously clever was rejected outright from Stanford. </p>
<p>I feel like this year--the class of '08--is the first to really experience the complete madness that the college application process has become.</p>
<p>That's insaaaane. But it also gives me hope that it'll go the other way- Maybe with me getting in? Now that Swat has so thoroughly crushed my spirit, I'm applying to MANY other schools (Stanford not included).</p>
<p>Admissions decisions sometimes seem like they're drawn from a hat.</p>
<p>I think we're screwed this year. I mean, I have a few friends who got into Yale and Columbia but then I have people who are insanely smart and talented (this one kid is honestly the best violinst I've ever seen) and they're getting deferred left and right. So I'm applying to way too many schools just to make sure I have backups and options to choose from when the time comes. Anyways, good luck to everyone who's still applying. These essay questions they're asking us are so LONG AND TEDIOUS!</p>
<p>I second all of the above sentiments. This process is so capricious. I don't feel like I even know what a "likely" school (one where you would be likely to be admitted, but not a safety) is. I have a feeling that a lot of people will be under-served by admissions this year. We may end up at less prestigious schools than our SATs, workload, ECs, etc would make us meritorious of. Who knows... April 1 is feeling really, really far away. On another note, I spoke with the Dir. of Adm at one of US News and World Report's top 5 LACs (ok, yes, I have a connection at said school), and she told me that ED was through the roof this year. Hopefully it will not portend our RD results... Anyone sick of the "why X school" question yet?</p>
<p>Maybe the silver lining is that the classes of 2012 at the less prestigious liberal arts colleges will be real intellectual and creative powerhouses? I'm trying to think of it that way. Hard not to prefer Swat's administration and faculty, though...</p>
<p>Yes, froghorn. SO sick of it. And I've hardly begun...</p>
<p>Are you applying to any non-common app schools?</p>
<p>(Haha...I really like that we all keep coming back to this thread.)</p>
<p>No, I'm sticking w/the CoA. The only school I considered off of it was Brown, but it's really too big for me. It's hard to overlook (and overcome) obsesion with elitesse, but we may just have to. I think you're right; the class of '12 will be more intellectual across the board. ED was really, really over-subscribed this year. I hold out hope that RD will be better.
One more mini essay to write and then I'm done. Good f'ing riddance! This is an awesome thread!</p>