<p>I am currently a freshman at Union College a small liberal arts school in Schenectady, NY.
I have a 4.0
1970/2400 SATs (which as I understand it, I don't have to submit)
Member of women's crew team
Writer for school newspaper
Heavily in involved in a group-Campus Action
High school: salutatorian, president of national honor society and student council, varsity hockey and lacrosse player (captain of both senior year), assistant editor of school newspaper, numerous volunteer positions, and various other clubs.
Not entirely sure about major (perhaps English or international relations) and definitely a minor in French
I am a Vermont resident
I was wait listed last year
PLEASE GIVE ME SOME IDEA OF WHAT MY CHANCES ARE!
THANK YOU!</p>
<p>I think your chances are nice. They require minimum of B average in college but you have perfect grades and high school is weighed heavily and there, you were salutatorian (It’s not surprising they didn’t accept you from the wait-list, they accept like no one, if I remember correctly).</p>
<p>TheRoad-- Middlebury actually ended up accepting a fair number of people off of the waitlist. I am currently a freshman and have talked to about 6 or 7 people who got in off the wait list, and I’m assuming there are more who I don’t know and others who decided not to accept the place.</p>
<p>Regardless, I think that you have a good chance. The fact that you were waitlisted showed that they would have liked you in the incoming class this year.</p>
<p>I think your chances are good. I agree that being wait-listed was a good sign that you are the kind of student they would like, and your current record is excellent. You just have to give a convincing reason why you need to change schools.
My S got in off the wait list as a Feb and is starting in 2 weeks.He’s been at Hobart this past semester. He also is a newspaper editor, and I hope you see him there!</p>
<p>When you have a school who has less than 3% attrition, one has to go into the process of transfer with a good sense of themselves, confidence and a shot of reality. So here are the numbers:</p>
<p>According the 2009 data set of enrolled and admitted students…</p>
<p>Transfers looked like this:
Men: 90 Applied, 15 Admitted, 9 enrolled
Women: 129 Applied, 13 Admitted, 6 enrolled
So of 219 transfer applications, 28 or a little better than 12% were accepted and a little more than half (15) transferred to Midd for 2009. </p>
<p>On the first year side:
1527 students were offered spots on waiting list
756 elected to remain on the list
42 were admitted.</p>
<p>But the truth there is, you don’t know how many letters or phone calls went to the 756 to fill the 42 seats, but I am thinking that if you hold out on the waitlist, you really hope to be accepted. On the other hand, some people get on a waitlist and after a certain amount of time passes they move on emotionally and literally to another school.</p>
<p>Just out of curiousity, why do you want to transfer from Union? I have both colleges on my list and was just wondering why you want to transfer. Thanks!</p>
<p>I break out in a cold sweat hearing about the 42 out of 756…It took 3 phone calls from different people, one of whom had a personal connection to the admissions office, an up-dated application with more of his straight As in IB and college courses(Math), a portfolio of all his prize-winning newspaper articles and editorials, a letter from a family friend who is a college professor basically saying “you people are nuts, you need this kid”, plus a begging letter and phone call from him…</p>