<p>nastan,
I do believe you will be able to work things out with grants, etc.Time has a review of well endowed colleges this week.I have not seen it yet,but you may want to review it.
Scottiegirl</p>
<p>Thnaks, I will.</p>
<p>Yemaya, LOL...but you're right. In fact, I think it was something like 2,200 threads...back in the good ol' intensive days. I'm not reading/posting as widely as I used to but the womens colleges in general and Smith in particular are both places where I think I can offer useful feedback.</p>
<p>Scottiegirl, I think it's misleading to suggest that all Smith students are well-endowed, not that it should matter one way or the other and--
What? Oh. Never mind.</p>
<p>Btw, I've heard through the grapevine that Smith offered admission to approximately 60 students on the waitlist.</p>
<p>Hello, TheDad - you mention that they offered to 60 applicants... do you think that means the picking from the waitlist is essentially over?</p>
<p>If 60 offers of admission went you can safely assume not everyone will acept.So,if in a week 30 reply that they will not be attending,they will send out 30 more offers of admission.I was told that this could go on till the end of June.Also,as of yet they have not offered admission to the wait listed Adas.So,do not give up yet!</p>
<p>The Dad what I was saying was that Smith was a well endowed college.If you had to be well endowed{in any manner},I would not have been given a place on the wait list!</p>
<p>Thanks, Scottiegirl - I think I need to keep in mind that not everyone would drop everything in a heartbeat if offered a spot!</p>
<p>Are you sure that Smith offering admissions to 60 students on the wait list means they have 60 open spots? They do know (as with regular admits) that only a certain percentage from the wait list will accept and they have a pretty good idea what that percentage is from historical data. So, just as an example, they may have 30 spots, offer to 60 students, knowing that less than 50% will accept. I could be totally wrong though.</p>
<p>Does anyone know for sure??</p>
<p>Odonta, I think Scottiegirl has it right. 60 have been offered and they will take as many as accept them, be it 2 or 60. </p>
<p>It is conceiveable that a second round of waitlist offers could go out, even reasonable. While I have connections, I don't have a Smith admissions officer sitting in my home office. :(</p>
<p>I am sure that is more than an art than a science, figuring out how many will say yes out of all the offers. I would think they error to a mildly oversized class since things happen between now and September. Did we ever learn how many were accepted in the first place?</p>
<p>We got the financial aid package and everything was great! The reply card wasn't even in the house ten minutes before it was filled out and returned with the deposit. It's official, she's going to Smith and her feet have yet to touch the ground!</p>
<p>Nastan - I am so happy for you and your daughter! Congratulations.</p>
<p>Thanks, good luck to you and your daughter. The waiting is tough but worth it in the end.</p>
<p>Yee-hah!!!! Good luck to you Nastan. And congrats on becoming a Smith parent. ;)</p>
<p>Yeah...it felt very ceremonial. I wrote the check...First National Bank of Dad...but we drove to the Post Office and D put the envelope in the mail.</p>
<p>So...</p>
<p>Does anyone know if it's too late to hear anything from Smith about traditional wait-listed students? I sent my postcard in immediately after I found out and a couple eeks agos I sent a letter and everything. But I haven't heard anything either way -- will they tell you if you are not accepted from the waitlist?</p>
<p>Cat, when in doubt, CALL. It beats asking even informed people with outdated info on a message board.</p>
<p>This isn't aimed at you but I am consistently puzzled by the number of very specialized, individual-specific, or otherwise idiosyncratic questions that people ask on this board instead of calling the one source that can give a real answer. What is it that makes an Internet board a more attractive option than picking up the phone?</p>
<p>Fwiw, I don' t know if they'll have a second phase of waitlist admittees or not.</p>
<p>What's so puzzling, TheDad? It's simple-- phoning is scary. People fear getting bad news. They fear they'll provoke a negative reaction. When they pick up the phone, their hearts pound and their stomachs turn. Thus, they go online to see if they can find out what they want to know with fewer physical complications! I'm not saying I think phoning's a bad idea. I just have no trouble sympathizing with young women who don't do it as easily as you seem to.</p>
<p>ET, fwiw, it's a phenomenon not limited to young women. I'm not saying that calling might not be stress inducing but getting a valid answer will get you past the stress sooner than anything else.</p>
<p>For me the deterrence to phoning is being put on hold. I gave up on the Financial Office recently after waiting more than 5 minutes and e-mailed them instead. They got back to me the next day. E-mail is another option but you may not have all your questions answered.</p>
<p>Pesto, that <em>is</em> the problem with e-mail. </p>
<p>I admit, I squeeze what I can from the phone. Mine has a speaker phone so that I can put it on speaker while on hold and do work at the computer until someone picks up. Patience from Yoda have I learned.</p>
<p>Okay, I called admissions today to see if they were finished drawing from the regular waitlist, and was told they'll be done at the end of this month. She did not seem at all inclined to elaborate.</p>
<p>So, it sounded like the stock answer, but maybe they really aren't done yet. </p>
<p>I'm sure they will send out "sorry" letters when admissions are finalized, but I didn't ask.</p>