<p>OK cool thanks and congrats! Tell your parents to join our FB group. ;)</p>
<p>Thank you CarolynB! My daughter has decided to wait until Wednesday - if we don’t hear anything by then, she will send a letter.</p>
<p>And congratulations CircularCubes!</p>
<p>Sorry to add more negative comments to the bunch - I was accepted into Smith’s Class of 2016 and wound up turning down the offer (so maybe you could take my spot!). However, when I was visiting before I made my decision, the Admissions Office said that this year they had the most applicants in all of Smith history. This, combined with the fact that they admitted 0 from the waitlist last year…ahh, things don’t look too good…</p>
<p>I’m waitlisted at Williams still, so I know it’s hard, but try not to get your hopes up too high. Sorry :/</p>
<p>I had a Smith admissions person call my cell phone today and leave a message saying that she had important news to tell me about the wait list. She said I could call her back at 8:30 tommorow morning. Did anyone else get such a call? Does that sound like good or bad news??</p>
<p>Definitely good news. They wouldn’t call you with bad news.</p>
<p>And as far as the overall situation, it seems like this is cyclical…one year they use the waiting list, next year they don’t. I wouldn’t read a lot into it.</p>
<p>Yes, it’s rare to call with bad news. That’s what e-mail is for.</p>
<p>We were told we would receive either a call or a snail mail letter. We were guessing that we would get a call with good news and a letter with bad news.</p>
<p>Sighs, still on waitlist too, kinda losing hope hrm. Not that I hate my second choice/backup, but you know.</p>
<p>Anybody have an idea as to when they’re usually over and done with the waitlist? They said last day of June officially, but I doubt it’ll take that long. My mom keeps telling me we have to know when so we know when I have to go apply for the private loan I’ll need to attend my backup.</p>
<p>I got in!!! I’m off the waitlist!!! :D</p>
<p>Crossing my fingers for the rest of you too!</p>
<p>Great news DramaQueen! So happy for you!</p>
<p>DD’s best friend just got into Smith off the waitlist yesterday!</p>
<p>Same as DramaQueen. She got a call.</p>
<p>So, I got in off the wail list, and will be attending…pending financial aid. I haven’t received my letter (I’m supposed to get it monday or tuesday) but I’m really worried about aid. Smith is my hands down first choice, but I can’t go there if the aid i get isn’t at least comparable to the school I’m currently enrolled at. I’m enrolled at American University, with an estimated cost of attendance around 55,000. I received a grant and loans, and will pay around 24,000 a year. So, I guess my question is if anyone has any insight regarding whether it’ll be comparable at Smith. When I did the Smith net price, it was projected I’d get enough aid to pay around 18,000 a year…I’m just worried that because I’m in off wait list, it’ll be much less. Any insight?</p>
<p>W/L doesn’t seem to affect finaid at all. A friend of D’s got off the list and her cost was $6K a year.</p>
<p>There are many schools which I would understand the financial incentives. Smith would have to cost quite a bit more for American to be an option imo. We visited and all three of us were dismayed.</p>
<p>Good luck, Wf.</p>
<p>TheDad, that’s how it is for me too. As long as Smith is fairly similar to American’s aid, I’m definitely attending. The only reason American is my school now is because they gave me the most aid, plus I want to study government and it’s in DC.</p>
<p>WF, D was a Gov major (along with Math) and we visited all the DC schools: G’town, GW, American. Understand the allure.</p>
<p>The Smith Gov department is very good. One tell tale: a <em>discussion section</em> was taught by the department head. By all means, if you go to Smith, you should do the Picker Program (semester in DC). D spent Summer + Fall on a US Senate staff, there are lots of other options, like CNN’s Washington Bureau, etc. Based on input from the local program coordinator, she wound up applying to a DC think tank for a job upon graduation. (If your interests have anything to do with Public Policy economic, the Center on Budget & Policy Priorities would be a great place to intern.) Applied for only the one job, got it, worked there for three years before going off to grad school. Found herself on the other side of the table, reviewing apps and being on the interview team for interns & RA’s.</p>
<p>On the “campus experience” side, Smith just kills American. And the administrative attitude at American towards students is pretty authoritarian. As they made their info session presentation, I reverse engineered their outline. There were seven major items, including how proud they were about keeping the campus safe by expelling students who caught with marijuana, before they said a word about academics. Really. Really?</p>
<p>Thanks, the information is really helpful. I’m more looking into the law side of things, because, right now at least, I’d like to be a federal judge one day. And I definitely prefer Smith over American. As long as I get some type of aid I’ll be at Smith next year, and I’m assuming I will get some type of aid.</p>
<p>Having had a daughter at each of these two schools (my younger one graduated with a Masters in Accounting from American yesterday, having done her B.A. there in three years), there’s absolutely no question that, in most areas, the academics at Smith are much, much, much stronger. American is very pre-professional, with only 40% of students in the arts and sciences (and the sciences are almost non-existent.). Having said that, the undergraduate in-term professional opportunities are much, much, much stronger at American. They organize the entire academic calendar around them. (Which is why you’ll almost never have a class on Wednesday, and you’ll have lots after 4 p.m.) It’s just the way it is. Different schools. My older d. would have hated American. My younger d. would have been a disaster at Smith.</p>
<p>I’m betting you’ll find Smith’s aid significantly better (Smith’s endowment is four times the size of American’s, with one fifth the students). (We’re not complaining: both schools came through for us.) Let’s hear, so we can compare notes.</p>
<p>Smith ended up giving me about 5,000 more in gift aid, plus more subsidized loan money and work study, which american did not. So, on top of the fact I prefer Smith, there’s also the more money from them. I enrolled, and I’m very excited.</p>
<p>Congrats!!</p>
<p>Congrats as well. David</p>