<p>Now that the pressure of being accepted has passed, I thought I'd share a funny story from my D's interview. We stayed at a B & B the night before the "Big" interview at Smith. In the middle of the night, I heard D in the bathroom, being quite sick. Her sister had passed along a stomach virus to D before we left and it hit just then. She was sick as a dog until noon on the day of the interview. By then, she could drink gatorade and not throw it up, so that is all she had for lunch...well, that and some pepto-bismol and emetrol. She had her interview at 2:00, and both she and were panic-stricken that she would have another bout in the middle of the interview. She didn't and she successfully did the overnight without being sick.</p>
<p>Poor thing...and the Admissions officer could have misinterpreted it as "too much stress."</p>
<p>Btw, in a MHC thread I saw you asking a follow-up about social life regarding guys. While it is not a piece of cake at Smith, I think it's better than at MHC because of MHC's remoteness. Downtown NoHo is a two-minute walk from campus and Smith has the greatest in-migration of "exchange" students among the Five Colleges. </p>
<p>If you D is very interested in guys, she'll have to work at it. My D would say to avoid the Amherst rugby team.</p>
<p>My D is straight, but not into guys very much. She had a couple of boys who fell for her, and she was sweet to them and seemed to enjoy their company, but didn't ever get too involved with the whole dating thing.</p>
<p>I'll tell her what you said about the Rugby team, though that generally is not the type of boy who attracts her in the first place. She's more into the nerdy (and unfortunately seems to attract the needy ones, as well) guys.</p>
<p>I'm curious to see what will happen to her social life over the next 4 years, given that she would have to really look for opportunities to interact with boys. I think if she didn't attend a co-ed high school, she probably would never even think about boys, other than Orlando Bloom.</p>