<p>Great news shiawase-chick! Congratulations!</p>
<p>congrats...shiawase..see you're worrying too much before this...
hmmm letters arrived in Japan? (do you stay in japan, lets assume yes)...meaning it reached ASIA!!! yeahman...
still pending...pending...</p>
<p>alextakashi, I received an email.
Actually, I asked Ms. Nicole Getchell when I should expect to hear my result by email, and coincidentally they intended to email me the result on the day anyways they said. </p>
<p>I honestly hope you guys also get in, too. Best of luck.</p>
<p>Thanks for all your support. I am one of the happiest girls on the entire earth!
I love my life.</p>
<p>congratulations shiawase-chick...</p>
<p>well, i havn't heard anythin yet !!!</p>
<p>oh...email..hmmm, so you are in Japan~ maybe we should start a facebook haha prospective lawrence acceptee... email~~ arrghh..they havent send me anything..sounds bad...</p>
<p>Hey Alex Takashi,</p>
<p>Umm...actually 1989. Just finished my SPM...and yes, only 11 years of schooling. Which apparently, is a bit of a problem since I've received </p>
<p>1)A deferral
2)A rejection
3)and an place on the waitlist</p>
<p>All but an acceptance letter. <em>sobs</em> heh. Still, keeping optimistic. We'll see. Best of luck with your apps.</p>
<p>switch7, But didn't I just see you on FandM? If not, my bad. Hehe. Good luck!</p>
<p>ooo where u're from gytoh?
What other colleges? well spm is fine!! there is a guy from m'sia got in to MIT and also 1989</p>
<p>no i wasn't on F&M...lol</p>
<p>So nothing?? no emails or anything over friday? it's sad...</p>
<p>why havn't I heard frm Lawrence yet?</p>
<p>Our son got a letter today indicating that he was waitlisted. Not exactly a good sign after being deferred EA.</p>
<p>Oh well, that decides it as there's no way he's going to pass on his other offers to wait yet another six weeks to hear from Lawrence. We're still scratching our heads wondering about whose car we must have cut off driving away from the admissions office last April after the fantastic interview he had. ;)</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone still waiting to hear or planning to matriculate at Lawrence! It must be a heck of a year for applicants.</p>
<p>MilwDad, I am so sorry to hear about your S. waitlist status. I received a rejection from Lawrence, which was my top choice, so I guess your son and i are in similar positions. We did call the school and they said they had 10,000 applications this year! Figure if there student body is 1400, they have about 350 incoming freshman (give or take a few hundred) which makes there acceptance rate this year about 28-30%. Yikes! Princeton says they accepted around half.</p>
<p>It seems like all the CTCL schools are receiving a lot more interest this year. Of course it will be interesting to see what the actual matriculation rates are vis a vis acceptances. It's a tough thing for a college to predict, and risky, as they only have so many beds and desks. But if they accept too many applicants who are just following an application trend as opposed to having real interest they can find themselves with empty beds and empty desks, too. It wouldn't surprise me if there are more kids waitlisted at these schools this year for that reason.</p>
<p>Anyway, my son has other great choices and I hope you do as well. This was the last school we were waiting to hear from so now at least we have certainty and can make a decision. Sometimes the next best thing you can hear after "yes" is "no" -- even if it's in the form of "maybe".</p>
<p>Got in...pretty excited...but not fantastic aid... I'm really looking forward for more aid from Lawrence... Shiawasechick, did you get a good fin aid package? Gytoh, Malaysian should have gotten the email already... did you manage to get in? switch7, how bout you?</p>
<p>MilwDad, I am sorry to hear about your son, too. I hope he chooses the best school among those great schools that have already accepted him.</p>
<p>alextakashi, I did not receive a fantastic aid either. (I got $5000 scholarship in addition to an ensemble award though) My father was afraid I might have been rejected because of my application to financial aid, so he stated on the form that he could afford the full tuition. Oh well, it is true a little more of scholarship would certainly have been helpful, that is the amount I got. I am thinking of applying to a language assistant position in the Japanese department once I become a junior so that the room&board fees will be waived.</p>
<p>Since I only applied to Lawrence and I love the school, I will definitely be enrolling in Lawrence this fall.</p>
<p>MilwDad--I was stunned back when your son was deferred and can't even imagine that he was waitlisted now. (Whose car DID you cut off driving away from admissions?!) Do I remember correctly that he had a 34 ACT score? ... It's possible that being from Wisconsin worked against him--I'm sure there were quite a few in-state applicants and Lawrence, like all of them, wants geographic diversity. My daughter (from KY) is finding that the farther away the college, the more interest they seem to have in her. The one in-state school she applied to has accepting her, but without much apparent enthusiasm! (She won't be going there.) Good luck to your son. I'm sure Lawrence just wasn't meant to be for him. Do you think he'll go out of state for school?</p>
<p>I'm guessing that the desire for geographic diversity played a role. Lawrence apparently has received a large increase in applications this year, probably a result of all the CTCL publicity, and that may have presented an opportunity to diversify the student body. Beyond that I have no explanation. And yes, my son did achieve a 34. Remarkably (in the context of this discussion), that was from the ACT test he took after his junior year, several months after our visit and his interview at Lawrence last spring where we were told there was every reason to expect he would be admitted. At the time of the interview, LU was looking at the 30 from his sophomore year test! </p>
<p>So all I can assume is that Lawrence had one heck of an applicant pool this year -- or that we cut off the Dean's car. :)</p>
<p>It's too bad in the respect that when we left Lawrence that day last spring my wife and son and I were so impressed we all honestly believed that's where he would go to college. But while we waited on Lawrence we looked at and learned about and visited a lot of other great schools. Last night, with all the schools' decisions in hand, my son made his decision with our full support. He's going to Kalamazoo, a school we really believe is as terrific as Lawrence. And in some important respects it's an even better fit for my son, who intends to pursue international studies. K's international programs are remarkable for a small Liberal Arts College.</p>
<p>So all's well, and it feels great to have come out the other end with a good decision and a great opportunity. He's happy.</p>
<p>And best of luck to all who choose Lawrence. It's a great choice.</p>
<p>shiawase, ensemble award? I got the international scholarship, but it will be uncomfortably affordable when my dad has to come out with 3/5 of the total costs. Income in Malaysia is not comparative to Japan not America, i guess the average salary here is around 1/4 of those first world countries..well let's just wait and plead..hahahaha</p>
<p>i still havn't heard anythin!! why's that</p>
<p>& shiawase-chick: wat u upto nowadays</p>
<p>I recently heard back from Lawrence- accepted with tuition remission. However, I'm having a very difficult time deciding between Lawrence and Beloit- any thoughts?</p>