<p>College Confidential.</p>
<p>I.e., the board you're reading.</p>
<p>I thought this thread deserved a bump for the prospective class of 2012</p>
<p>Hi sybbie: Boy, and old thread was just as engrossing as a new one, like watching CSI episodes from first season I never watched. All the familiar voices.</p>
<p>I read 2/3 before I looked at the date, dumb me, and zoomed in to last page to see what was at stake.</p>
<p>Responses: I use adcom to be the entire committee, but I struggle to configure my sentences so I can. I like something about this term.</p>
<p>S got of two prestigious wait lists: Brown (wanted to be assured that he didn't just want PLME) and Wesleyan (in less than a week -- and he got a likely letter. Don't know what was doing on there.)</p>
<p>D was contacted by two schools to see if she was "still interested." Obviously yield management strategy.</p>
<p>Not wait listed at ED school after being deferred. ED school less selective than Brown by a hair; those institutional factors I presume since they liked him enough to defer him at a school that rejects more ED applicants than wait list them.</p>
<p>After supervising two campaigns I have hung up my bugle, saber, and boots. However, I support the tenor of this thread which strongly suggests that an application tell a story. The stronger the story, the easier to hear. BTW: both kids ended up at schools whose website description of their students matched them better than the other schools they applied to. Made me think that perhaps adcoms do know something. The ED school, though a wonderful school, now has S thinking, "What was I thinking?" He was experimenting in his mind with being someone slightly different than he is. But the schools "read" him loud and clear.</p>
<p>BTW: He did not choose Brown. He's a LAC kind of guy. Did not choose Wesleyan either. He absolutely adores Williams. D is the definition of a Barnard girl, oh I mean woman.</p>
<p>Good luck to all. This too shall pass.</p>
<p>Bumping because this is an informational thread.</p>
<p>The most important message here always gets overlooked by many of the people looking at admissions at the Elites: Stats are a threshold to get you consideration. Once you are over that threshold, all the other factors come into play. The myth that a higher ACT or SAT make you more qualified for entry than another person is just not true. Yet I always see that assumption, from kids comparing who got in (“I had much better scores… what gives?”) to parents who talk about reverse discrimination (“They accepted her just because of her race… while white kids with better stats got rejected”).</p>
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<p>It is true that that is the main point, however, I feel that some people purposefully ignore that point for the simple reason of making themself feel better, whether about a rejection or an acceptance.</p>