Grinnell decisions mailed

<p>My grinnell email address was rejected as well, but I tried the email address for someone that I know is accepted and their email was rejected too, so I really don't know. This is killing me. Hopefully I will get something from them tomorrow. At this point knowing I'm not in would be better than preparing myself to be rejected, opening the mailbox, not seeing any big envelopes, knowing I've been rejected and then finding out that there isn't a small envelope either.</p>

<p>Yeah, me too.</p>

<p>don't assume the worst. it could very well be that they are sending them out in steps(maybe alphabetically...) Stay positive! and if any of you are curious, I live 5 hours from Grinnell and received it today...so it may also just be taking longer for some of you. good luck!<br>
p.s. to calm your nerves at the mailbox, it's big and red!</p>

<p>Rejections aren't always mailed later--I got an early write, but I still haven't gotten any big packet yet. I do live quite a ways from Iowa, though. </p>

<p>How did you all get these Pioneerweb accounts? I swear I never got anything about them.</p>

<p>I got early notification that I was admitted - just a thin little envelope in a big big DHS envelope. </p>

<p>Am waiting for financial aid news (though Grinnell is great, I know!!)
My pioneerweb still doesn't reflect that email ID thing, I guess.</p>

<p>What is in the acceptance package? Is it just a letter and some financial aid papers?</p>

<p>noinspiration -- I think we have the same mailman! Sadly, we don't get first class mail every day. About once or twice a week, our mail is delivered earlier in the day, and it's just junk. I sure hope today is not a junk mail only day! My daughter can't wait to hear from Grinnell, and neither can I, since we have to plan some visits to several colleges! I sure hope today is the day!</p>

<p>Giajale- the acceptance package has a letter, a newspaper, a couple pamphlets on Accepted Student weekends, and your Financial Aid package.</p>

<p>I LOVE Grinnell! :D Got in with a truly phenomenal financial aid package. I doubt a more generous, more wonderful, more perfect school could possibly exist! I can't really believe that I'll actually be able to attend one of my dream schools!</p>

<p>I really hope that in comes in today for. Another problem is that I live at a boarding school, so I have to call home consistently to check if anything came in.</p>

<p>Sad news. My daughter was waitlisted at Grinnell. And this comes after a personal email from her admissions counselor telling her how wonderful her essay was, and that they are "excited" about her application. Huh? Plus, her CC said this was a safety school for her.</p>

<p>je ne sais quoi, would you mind sharing what her stats were? Now I'm really afraid I won't get in. I wish my mailman would hurry up and deliver the mail! I mean seriously, it's 2:30! The mail is supposed to come at like 2! AGGH!</p>

<p>From memory, her stats were:</p>

<p>ACT 34
SAT II 780 (Lit), 770 (Spanish), 760 (Biology)
AP: Three, all 5s. Taking five AP classes this year (Econ, Physics, Calculus, etc. Earning A's in all of them)
GPA: 4.0 Top 2% of class
ECs: First chair French horn, Varsity Scholastic Bowl co-captain, Science Olympiad Medalist, 2nd degree black belt Tae Kwon Do, Varsity lacrosse goalie, audition-based choir (tours to Italy, China, Austria, Czech Rep), editor and published in HS literary magazine,
Honors: NHS, Cum Laude, Quill & Scroll, National Merit, AP Scholar, IL State Scholar
Other: Long-standing commitment to community service (family and otherwise)</p>

<p>I hope this helps. My poor girl is still crying in her room, completely confused, sad and angry.</p>

<p>Maybe she is too good for Grinnell? I am sure she will do great wherever she ends up! :)</p>

<p>Oh, I am so sorry to hear this, je<em>ne</em>sais_quoi. What an amazing record of accomplishments and achievements--it's hard for me to believe that they didn't accept her, so it must be really hard for you.</p>

<p>Holy crap, if she didn't get in I'm completely screwed. I bet Grinnell had some Tuft's syndrome going on. If Grinnell was her first choice you should call them and tell them where she got in and that she would gladly turn those schools down to go to Grinnell. And of course the mail is running late today! God I just want to know!</p>

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I hope this helps. My poor girl is still crying in her room, completely confused, sad and angry.

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If Grinnell is her first choice, continue to emphasize interest. At some schools waitlist is a rejection, at some schools it's a "we don't think you were going to end up here" list. Speculating on why this or that applicant didn't get admitted is generally a useless endeavor, but I have to imagine at some point that the topic of whether or not Grinnell was her first choice with her stats came up in committee discussion.</p>

<p>Waitlisted as well...</p>

<p>Thanks to you all. Your comments really do help. Right now my daughter is reeling, and I am downright furious at her CC who swore Grinnell was a "safety" for her. And, I'm utterly livid at the Grinnell admissions counselor who sent her a personal email praising her essay up one side and down the other, claiming they were "excited" about her application. </p>

<p>Once emotions settle down, we'll have to think about what to do. It's possible they didn't think she would want Grinnell, which is strange since all she did was express interest, even sending an update a few weeks ago outlining most recent accomplishments, etc. </p>

<p>Our home is so sad right now. My very little boy asked, "But why doesn't that college want Sissy?" That's the million dollar question, isn't it?! </p>

<p>Things could be, and have been, worse, a lot worse. This, too, shall pass. Any more advice is more than welcome! </p>

<p>Best of luck to the rest of you! I hope you all get the good news you are hoping to hear, and soon!</p>

<p>Sending an update is kind of customary, to be honest. Once your daughter calms down I'd consider asking her to draft something about how much she wanted to go to Grinnell, and how she wants to take the waitlist thing to the end, and having her make a phone call to her admissions counselor is probably one of the better things you can do. I'm sure it's troubling for her, but a waitlist at Grinnell isn't a "death sentence" in the way a waitlist at, say, Harvard is.</p>

<p>I've been waitlisted at my safety too..apparently, that's happening a lot this year...I remember reading about it here. But I got in at Grinnell :D :D :D and I'm shocked but really really happy....!!</p>