<p>Congrats penumbra :)))
What are your stats and what do you think got you in??</p>
<p>Stat or sat or SAT:-):</p>
<p>SAT I :1410 (i know it's kinda low for Swat...)
GPA: 4.0 uw
SAT II: 800/800/740/700/700 (iic/chinese/us his/physics)
APs:
Euro His 4
(below are all independent studies---one hook i guess)
US His 5
Calc BC 5
Physics B 5
Chem 4</p>
<p>I think I got in because of my self-studied APs and extremely unusual EXCs/work/service experiences (fire marshall, UN translator, eBay business, etc.). </p>
<p>I also have excellent recs and pretty good essays.</p>
<p>My interview was great and I actually took a greyhound bus from Southern California to Swarthmore to do the interview.........(well, along with other 20+ colleges as well) The greyhound trip took me 46 days and I traveled 15,000 miles......</p>
<p>guys i got an email from admission office that int students applying for fin aid has a chance of 1 in 26 of being accepted.</p>
<p>I think the chance is very very slim for us.</p>
<p>Well, you just got to hope for the best. Don't worry about it abhay.</p>
<p>the school is great.
the school is beautiful.
the girls are ugly.
that's a generalization, but i have yet to see it falsified. i have visited swarthmore many times.</p>
<p>This seems to be a typical "male complaint" common to many schools. At Stanford they say that 99.9% of girls in California are beautiful, and the rest are students at Stanford...</p>
<p>Needless to say, this kind of assessment is not only wrong, but also pretty dumb (even as a joke)...</p>
<p>As displeasing as it is (especially for the male students), this assessment is far from inaccurate. Is it a nice thing to say? No. But it has validity, and it is certainly not a joke. It is, in fact, a factor that can be taken into consideration when selecting a school; this is not to say that it ought to carry much weight, but perversely ignoring its existence merely hidebound. Accept the fact that certain ilks orient themselves toward certain schools. There are, of course, a few exceptions to the rule. If any girl believes herself to be such an example, I'll rap the gavel in the fall.</p>
<p>No comment on whether that's true or not, but one of my roommates said that when he started his college search, he wanted to go to the elite liberal arts college with the best looking girls, and he found it to be Swat.</p>
<p>Here is a response from the moderator of the Stanford board on this topic:</p>
<p>"Normally we kill these threads on sight because they're founded on an incredibly stupid premise or two. However, instead of just killing this thread, I'm going to close it but leave it up as a "Don't do this" example for others to read and heed, showing that even some very smart people can post some very dumb things.</p>
<p>--Moderator Obiwan"</p>