<p>kelleymegreener, the students that many of us know at Swarthmore may not be singing and dancing all of the time, but I think we can gauge their general level of happiness. I don't think they are there by default either, my son says that several of his friends turned down Ivies to go to Swat, and I know his roommate turned down 2 of the LACs you are rating more highly, and at least one Ivy. Happiness can be judged more by general satisfaction at college. I don't think anyhow that the name of the school is that important, or its ranking. I have said before in my rather limited number of posts that I would have been happy if my son had liked the state univ where I attended for undergraduate. It turned out that Swat was his ED choice, and he was right, it is a great place. I am a bit of a cheerleader for Swat because he made a good choice for himself. It seems to be a great institution to attend, but not because of name, stats, etc., which it does have. In my experience, the name and prestige of a college/university which one attends has a limited predictability for happiness and/or success in life. At Swat there are excellent faculty members, and it appears to be a thoughtful, supportive environment with a beautiful campus. That is how I am judging it.</p>
<p>I applied ED1 to Swarthmore and I'm waiting impatiently to find out if I got in or not. Does anyone know when we might expect to find out? Is there any way to find out online, or do we have to wait until letters actually get sent? (I'm thinking they might post decisions on their website that applicants get a password and username on.)</p>
<p>Last year it was US Mail, except if you were very far away, such as Nepal. Haven't heard of any changes.</p>
<p>kelly: you want to see really defensive people? go on the university of chicago forum. just say that you think yale is a slightly better school than uchi and they will go ballistic. they will back up why uchi is far superior to yale with stats, whether real or made up, they don't care. so if you really want to get a kick out of tweaking people, go there and mention their high acceptance rate and low yield. knock yourself out.</p>
<p>In the old days, we were out marching for peace and justice, and it didn't really matter where anyone went to college. Amazing what people debate over now! But this really should go back to being the ED Roster, sorry about this, hopefully the results will be in soon, and all positive.</p>
<p>Collegialmom,
I got a chuckle out of your "singing and dancing" comment, because believe it or not, last Saturday night I dragged my two younger sons along on a road trip down to Swat to see "Swatson" sing at Jamboree, the a cappella festival, and then dance at the Fall Dance Concert! So, at least for one night he was truly singing and dancing!</p>
<p>So does anyone actually know when we might expect to get notification about admissions? I'm getting extremely tense about this.</p>
<p>Yudi:</p>
<p>In past years, they have mailed ED letters on about the 12th of December. So they start arriving on the 13th for people in Phila/Jersey, the 14th for people near Boston, and so on and so forth. Check back here for the first sightings and you can tell when to start checking your mailbox.</p>
<p>You guys are the first group of applicants to have passwords for a protected website ahead of time. Whether that has any implications for on-line notifications is anybody's guess.</p>
<p>Kelleymegreener:</p>
<p>A lot of parents and students like Swarthmore because there aren't a lot of snotty kids there.</p>
<p>Thank you very much for the info!</p>
<p>i am almost positive that there will be no notification through your online account. not all applicants recieved one of these accounts, so i doubt that they will let the ones that did know ahead of time. e-mail is a possibility, but again i highly doubt it. letters will come next week people :)</p>
<p>What would be the point of giving out accounts to some applicants but not all of them?</p>
<p>I have no idea. I'm one who didn't get an account, although I called and they received everything from me.</p>
<p>That's really weird. I was kind of hoping that they would post decisions online when they send out the letters, so that we could find out before the letters actually arrive, but it wouldn't really be fair for some applicants to find out before others. (Though I suppose that happens anyway since the length of time it takes for the letter to arrive depends upon how far away one is from the school.) Weird that they would assign some people accounts and not others though; I don't know why they would do that. I guess all we can do now is wait. I'm still sort of hoping they do post online...</p>
<p>I'm in NJ...I doubt it'll get here the 13th though. I'm hoping 14th.</p>
<p>They probably just give the online accounts to the prettiest applicants, hence why yours truly received one. </p>
<p>Just kidding. Maybe it has something to do with the date you submitted? Or, whether the application was done online or snail mail? </p>
<p>Whoa, the 13th is really soon. I guess I mighttttt get it then, but probably not.</p>
<p>It might be a test run. They are rolling out a new website soon, and they might have randomly given a few applicants the site in order to see if it would work properly.</p>
<p>Great !!!!</p>
<p>"my son says that several of his friends turned down Ivies to go to Swat, and I know his roommate turned down 2 of the LACs you are rating more highly, and at least one Ivy."</p>
<p>My host during Discovery Weekend turned down Harvard for Swat and is not disappointed with his choice. I also spoke to several who turned down Brown.</p>
<p>A friend of mine got into ~13 colleges, including Yale and Brown, and chose Swat. I was ED, and while I would have probably applied to Harvard (no idea if I would have been accepted), Swat was/is far and away my first choice.</p>