<p>Hello everyone! I just got accepted to Haverford on a full-ride scholarship through the Questbridge program! So, can any current students tell me how much of an awesome time I am going to have next year? ;)</p>
<p>congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>1) Awesome, 2) Congrats, and 3) How did you already hear? I know that it's a special program affiliated with top colleges, but how did you find out that you were accepted? Did Haverford tell you or the program?</p>
<p>m.c.10: According to the Questbridge website, the program notifies students on Dec. 1 (not the colleges)</p>
<p>Sligh_Anarchist: I'm an alumnus, not a current student, but I can tell you you will have a great time. Congrats. Welcome to the family.</p>
<p>Oh that's so cool. Congratulations, again.</p>
<p>You are so Lucky. I'm sitting here nervous and anxious. But, the time will come. EVENTUALLY. <em>sigh</em></p>
<p>Can any current students tell me about the quality of the dorms and the food? I have been to Bowdoin and their dorms were like palaces and the food was spectacular. Is Haverford comparable?</p>
<p>Also, what can you tell me about course selection? Will I have ready access to the courses I want? Are wait lists prevalent?</p>
<p>have you join the facebook group? its just this one kid who deferred and started it up but no one else ever joined =/ ive been hoping that i might become a member soon, but now you can!</p>
<p>syke nah - i just checked and a few questbridge kids have already joined.</p>
<p>HI SLIGH!!
lol! you gotinto haverford??
omg i did an overnight there
it was such an awesome school
campus is beautiful
every1 looks out for each other
its awesome
lol
i got a tshirt there</p>
<p>anyways.. i got into Wesleyan :D
$ 211,200 saved <3</p>
<p>Sure did! There is no way I can describe the excitment I experienced when I got my phone call about my Match scholarship to Haverford!</p>
<p>Congrats on the Match scholarship to Wesleyan! That's a great school! Have a fun time at Wesleyan! :P</p>
<p>Let me add my congratulations. </p>
<p>I am an alum, but I just finished a campus visit with my son, who probably will be apply next year. So I found out what you would have found on a campus tour.</p>
<p>Dorms: Pretty typical. Most dorms are coed. If you want a single sex option, Haverford Park Apartments on the south side of campus offer single sex apartment options. </p>
<p>Food: Seemed pretty typical. Having been on lots of campuses recently with my older daughter, the food at all the schools seemed pretty standard. (Much better than when I was a student, but still standard.) My son has pretty demanding standards, and he thought the food options were great. </p>
<p>Classes: You usually can get the classes you want. Relatively few waitlists. Intro classes are usually either large enough, or have enough sections, that everyone gets in. The only challenge is when as a freshman or sophmore you try to take a course that is usually taken by juniors or seniors. It works most of the time, but some profs will stick to class size limits and say take the course next time.</p>
<p>I had a fabulous time at Haverford, and remain pretty active with the school. Haverford was my daughter's second choice -- she ended up at U Chicago (she wanted a bigger school). Maybe I will have more luck with my son ...</p>
<p>Small world story: my daughter is dating a Questbridge student at U Chicago. I did not know anything about the program, but the more I learn about Questbridge the more impressed I am with the program and what it tries to do for students. </p>
<p>I am sure you will have a great experience.</p>
<p>Thank you for your input, xcfan. </p>
<p>Can you tell me anything about what kind of grad school and employment opportunities awaits a Haverford graduate (assuming a good GPA, of course)?</p>
<p>Grad schools options are fabulous. Haverford does very well with med school, law school, and PhD program placement. It consistently ranks in the top 15 or so schools in terms of PhD productivity -- number of PhD degrees relative to institutional size.</p>
<p>When I was a student (I think this is still true) alot of grads either went to grad or professional school right away, or were so sure they were going they just wanted an interim job for one or two years before grad/prof school. Those who wanted to just find jobs all seemed to find a niche, but it is harder and requires more planning. If you work on getting internships and identifying career focused activities during summers, it is easier to navigate your way to an interesting job. I think many students end up in grad/prof school because they have not taken the time to figure out what they really want to do. I must confess, I was one of those students -- I ended up in law school without a particularly clear understanding of the path I was choosing. It worked out fine -- I like what I do -- but I would have had different options if I had started thinking about alternatives earlier. Talk to the career planning office on campus.</p>
<p>I know you didn't ask me, but here's some info in response to your question to xcfan:</p>
<p>Of the 11 roommates I had had over the course of my 4 years at HC (I've excluded the four people I haven't heard about since graduation, but included myself in that number), we collectively attended the following grad schools: Berkeley Business, Columbia Law, Harvard Business (2), Harvard Education, Harvard Kennedy, Harvard Law, Univ. of Penn. Med (2), Yale Med, Yale PhD (2), and no grad school.</p>
<p>Thanks pointoforder & xcfan! That's wonderful information to know!</p>
<p>I am pretty naive when it comes to law and graduate school, but can a low-income student find funding similar to the Questbridge scholarship that I have received? (I don't know if I am set on law school, but I am almost 99.9% certain I will be attending graduate school).</p>
<p>Fellowship opportunities for graduate school differ tremendously by field. In the hard sciences there are many fellowship opportunities which may also pay a stipend (living expenses). Less so in the social sciences, but there are still some. Much less so in the humanities. This is primarily because these types of financial aid are largely funded by outside research grants and professors' need for graduate student research assistants. There is generally good funding for research in the hard sciences, some in the social sciences, but much less so in the humanities.</p>
<p>I am not as familiar with funding opportunities for professional schools (law, business, medicine, etc.), but my general impression is that there is far less financial aid available than for undergraduate programs. Most students take out loans and may partially fund their professional school education by working for a couple of years after college. You may recall that the Obamas just recently finished paying off their student loans.</p>
<p>I can speak to law school. I was in a similar financial situation -- I went through Haverford on a full scholarship (it was the 1970s, but my total parental contribution for four years of college was only $300; the rest was scholarship, work study, and limited loans). So I applied to law school in exactly your situation. Most top schools have pretty generous financial aid, but it only kicks into cover the amount of demonstrated need after taking out pretty substantial loans. I attended NYU in the 1980s, and remember the split being about 1/3 loans and 2/3 scholarship. I think the split now is more like 1/2 loans, 1/2 scholarship. The other factor to consider: many top law schools have started loan forgiveness programs for those students who work in the public sector. So if take a job at a private law firm, you are responsible for paying the loans. If if take a job in the public sector and make much less money, the loans are gradually forgiven depending on the number of years in the public sector. Bottom line: you can make it work.</p>
<p>Dadx3 is correct about grad school. It varies alot. But very top programs have money for all grad students, even in the humanities. In addition to law at NYU, I did grad work at Princeton and I do not remember meeting any grad student paying for school; everyone (even the humanities) had fellowships, financial aid, or both.</p>
<p>hi. Congrats on your admit. Regarding your questions...</p>
<p>1) I think Bowdoin is considered to have the best food around. I heard they serve sushi in their dining hall and have a lobster roast at the beginning of the year. Haverford's food probably isn't as good but from what I hear it is much much better from when I was there. The most important thing though is that the head of the dining operations, John francone, is a true friend to students and will listen to you and try his best with the resources given. That is one of the best things about HC, the culture of the place and that students feel that their voice matters. Feeling empowered at a young age is an important thing to foster.</p>
<p>2) i remember the career development office being wonderful if you make the initiative. The office is jointly run with Bryn Mawr so the resources are that of a comparable institution of 2500 students even though Hc by itself is 1200 students. Since I left, HC has obtained significant resources to fund kids to do research on campus or do research/work off campus through grants such as with the CPGC. My only reservation with this is that it's a valuable educational/maturing experience to apply to non-haverford specific $ and programs, go on interviews where you aren't given the benefit of the doubt, to prepare you for the real world. </p>
<p>3a) I can speak a little about science/medicine. Med school will run you about 50,000 to 60,000 a year now. It may be more later. A lot of schools have funds for scholarships. In addition, there are programs that will pay for your education if you train in a primary care field and serve in an underserved area for 5 years after residency. There are also army/navy scholarships for med school as well. If you do an MD/PhD, your tuition will be paid for but you will be in med school for 6 years instead of 4.</p>
<p>3b) Regarding placements, in my graduating class, only one person graduated with a perfect 4.0 GPA (summa) and he won a very prestigious grant to study astrophysics at Princeton. We really don't talk GPA but 3 friends who graduated magna (3.7-3.9) went to Harvard (2) and Johns Hopkins (1). Some of my other friends and I (who graduated with slightly lower GPAs) wound up at Columbia, Mount Sinai, Yale, Penn, Cornell, NYU an Duke. Bear in mind that med schools put a lot of weight behind research, extracurricular activities and demographics in addition to GPA. In addition, regardless of med school attended, all of us pretty much got to where we wanted to be. I have classmates who didn't attend large research med schools but who just finished up their training in orthopedics and neurosurgery at THEE most prestigious hospitals for these fields. It's pretty cool to see that.</p>
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