<p>I am a boy, but my best friend was just offered admission to Mount Holyoke (which I love btw! if I were XX chromosome I would totally love to go there!) in the January semester. What does this mean? Will she graduate with the rest of her class? What should she do in the interim? Is there anything she can do to be offered admission in the fall?</p>
<p>On her applicant status page you can scroll down to spring admission and they have a FAQ. I’m going in Jan (probably!).</p>
<p>It seems like first, wait listed students would get admitted for fall. I don’t think Spring admits would get fall slots before the wait listed students.</p>
<p>I too was admitted for spring entrance…do you guys thing that’s a good thing? I’m an international student living in the US.</p>
<p>I am actually very happy about spring. 1) I know where I’m going and 2) I get to work for 7 months from graduation to spring start and save money.</p>
<p>Dumb question but how do u know if u were accepted to spring or fall?</p>
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<p>@ready2011: I definitely understand what you mean! I think it would be enough time for my parents to get used to the idea of me leaving. Do you think that by getting accepted in the spring rather than the fall, that MHC didn’t value/want us as much?</p>
<p>@paukid: Your acceptance letter would have stated that you were accepted for spring entrance in January 2012 rather than the fall.</p>
<p>My understanding is that they don’t have traditional spring admits (where you can apply for spring) but the openings on campus allow them to let in more than they have room for. A few years ago they had an overcrowding issue and I think that is when they started moving some admits to spring. I don’t think it has anything to do with credentials or being second best. I think it’s a space issue. You can also defer to the spring as a fall admit and I understand that many students do. </p>
<p>Since you have to finish college in 3.5 years to graduate on time, I doubt that they would put the “lesser” students in the spring.</p>
<p>Ok, that makes sense. I would prefer to start in the fall, so I’m going to try to contact MHC to see if I can. Are you an international student??</p>
<p>No, I’m domestic.</p>
<p>Greetings:</p>
<p>In 1986 I was waitlisted at MHC, then admitted for January (at the time, those who did this were called February Freshmen), then admitted for the fall. The January option is there because some juniors take their second semester at a different college on an exchange program, so that frees up some beds.</p>
<p>Personally, I didn’t want to wait to start college until February when all of my friends were going away in August, so I declined the Feb Freshman offer and enrolled at Sarah Lawrence College for the fall. A couple of weeks later, I was notified that I was accepted at MHC for the fall, so I withdrew my acceptance at Sarah Lawrence (lost a deposit, but that was okay) and accepted the offer at Mount Holyoke. </p>
<p>I knew some women who came to MHC in February and were happy to do so, but I felt badly that they missed out on some freshman traditions that only occur in the fall (elfing, “disorientation,” etc). Mount Holyoke is very big on those kinds of traditions, so if that kind of thing is important to you, keep it in mind when deciding whether or not to start in your second semester. Remember, though, that there are lots of traditions that go on throughout the entire college experience at MHC, so there is plenty of time to catch up and have fun. Mount Holyoke is also a very friendly place, so even if you start in your second semester, people will likely be very welcoming and happy to see you.</p>
<p>Thanks EastCoastGirl. I have two friends who have older relatives (one sister and one cousin) at MHC and talked to them over the weekend. They said the students go out of their way to greet January admissions and that the group itself goes through orientation together and gets to be quite close and many times get better (junior) rooms. One of the two said that many fall admits choose to defer until the spring and MHC allows that as well.</p>
<p>I got January Admission as well to MoHo, and I’m considering taking their offer and studying in Europe until January when I start. My cousin (who graduated in '96) said that January Admits tend to stick together in a group, but everyone welcomes them and they catch up easily. Also, apparently it IS possible to graduate in 3.5 years, so if that was a worry to your friend, it should be just fine.</p>
<p>I was a Springie to MoHo last year (it’s my first semester now), and it actually isn’t as bad as I thought it would be. I did miss out on the gorgeous fall scenery, but there’s next fall for that! As for missing out on traditions - my roommate and I got Elfed, along with the other Springies in my dorm. You just miss mountain day (which I was bummed about) and dis-o, but I asked around and apparently there wasn’t much to miss. During the fall I took three classes at my community college, and I had 24 AP credits in addition so I am caught up credits-wise. If you don’t do that it’s not too hard to catch up by overloading or transferring credits. </p>
<p>I’m somewhat glad that I came in the spring now - my room is huge! We get the rooms that juniors studying abroad/at another college leave behind, so they are almost guaranteed to have two closets and of a decent size (plus the quads in Ham are already occupied!). The Springie orientation was very personal, too - there was only ~30 or so of us, so there was a bunch of interaction and whatnot. =)</p>
<p>If you were admitted for spring, but would rather attend in the fall, let the admissions department know. Last year, my daughter was admitted for spring, then admitted for fall. She ended up getting off the wait list at Smith and matriculating there, but the MOHO staff was so kind during the entire process, that I felt somewhat sad that she would not be at MoHo.</p>
<p>So at least some spring admits do get admitted for fall.</p>
<p>Good luck, it is a lovely school with incredibly supportive staff.</p>