<p>I think Gettysburgh is a great school – I thought you wrere a parent – are we talking 25yrs ago?</p>
<p>Scout I think I know who you’re talking about–was it a girl who was on the Kenyon waitlist who wound up at Hendrix? I remember her coming back to the boards to say how happy she was there, but I’m not sure she found the school through the list or through the boards. A good example of things working out–I believe she got some nice aid from Hendrix as well.</p>
<p>gettinin, yes, you are correct. I have been on this board for years. It is a student from NJ:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/62027-hendrix-college.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/62027-hendrix-college.html</a></p>
<p>“space available” does NOT necessarily mean they need more applicants. In fact, for the vast majority of schools, it means their yield off of the admitted list wasnt as high as they thought (the economy is a factor) and they are working off of their waitlist. It simply means they dont have a “closed class” for this year. </p>
<p>Some schools do have rolling admissions and will still take applications even this late. Generally, they are third tier and lower schools. But there may be some exceptions. </p>
<p>Colleges are not insensitive to their peer group ratings and what other admissions offices from competitor schools think of them. So they are very reluctant to expose all the facts. </p>
<p>Another dirty secret is that a LOT of highly selective schools, Notre Dame and Georgetown included, take kids as transfers who were rejected or waitlisted the previous year. They dont have the same reporting requirements that affect their perceived “selectivity rating” in the second round of transfers.</p>
<p>So if you are really that interested in a particular school, even after being dumped or waitlisted, then try again next year and transfer in.</p>
<p>Assuming that there aren’t many students from NJ at Hendrix:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/439757-culture-shock-leaving-northeast-coming-6.html#post5172267[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/439757-culture-shock-leaving-northeast-coming-6.html#post5172267</a>
She seems to be satisfied with Hendrix but still says that given the chance for a do-over, she would have chosen a different college.</p>
<p>Yeah, I just read some of her posts and I guess she wasn’t all that happy after all. (And I think she DID find her college on NACAC.) This girl is going to grad school now, which means it’s been FOUR years since I read about this site and started posting even though I had no good reason to be here other than I find it all very interesting.</p>
<p>Where do y’all she that she wasn’t happy? I tried looking at some old posts, and it sounded like she turned down transfers to Kenyon and Lehigh with big bucks to stay at Hendrix because she loved it so.</p>
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<p>I know a kid who found a place at one in May, having been rejected from all of the schools to which he applied during the normal cycle.</p>
<p>The school he went to is on the list and has space this year. I think they have rolling admissions.</p>
<p>She says she “loves” the school but that if given the chance to choose again, she would not choose Hendrix; she says that the culture shock was a bit much. But I feel a little weird talking about a student who isn’t aware we’re talking about her, so this is the last I’ll write about her.
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/439757-culture-shock-leaving-northeast-coming-11.html#post5172267[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/439757-culture-shock-leaving-northeast-coming-11.html#post5172267</a></p>
<p>As I have no such compunctions about discussing another poster’s public sentiments as a case study–</p>
<p>Transferring is emotionally taxing. Even if she was dissatisfied socially at Hendrix, the academics are top-notch and was she dissatisfied enough to start all over at another small LAC where everyone already knows everyone else? On the other hand, “choosing again” implies going back in time and just starting as a freshman with everyone else–that is a different kind of experience, with none of the transfer disadvantages. Her subtle complaints about culture shock indicate that Hendrix served her well but was perhaps not the best fit.</p>
<p>I know someone who thought about transferring this year because of the overwhelming academic workload at her current school; but she loves her friends too much to leave.</p>
<p>Well put, K. I was in a similar situation. I wish I could go back in time and choose a better fit, but I sort of settled in where I was and I didn’t want to go through the arduous task of transferring. Through FACEBOOK, I’m reconnecting with old college friends and realizing it wasn’t as bad as I remembered–but it still wasn’t a good place for me.</p>
<p>I think transferring means differnt things to different people. My sister, who was young when she started college, started at a small LAC, then transferred to flagship Public U. She viewed transferring as growth. She wasnt the same person at 19 as at 17. She had more confidence, and the small LAC helped her get there. Could she have finished at the small LAC ? Sure. Did she regard it as starting over – NO.</p>
<p>I transferred from a small no name school to a top 10 school. It was the best decision of my life. The school I originally went to was academically less challenging than my high school and I felt stifled there. However, it did allow me to maintain an over 3.8 average, which got me into a much better (for me anyway) school.</p>
<p>kayf - Absolutely true. The girl in question, though, had applied to transfer to other equally small, isolated LACs–it clearly wasn’t a matter of growth for her, but of fit.</p>
<p>just a note… saw this thread. cornell college has room too, i think. they sent me an email about having more spaces.</p>
<p>Cornell College has the one-at-a-time block program similar to Colorado College, yes? Interesting. . .</p>
<p>I am new comer here.
If a family income is over $120,000.00US and live in Canada, their kids still can get chance for financial aid? </p>
<p>Thanks! </p>
<p>Mihu</p>
<p>Mihu, try posting in the Financial Aid forum. But in general, it is more difficult for internationals to get aid than for US citizens.</p>
<p>My nephew used this list 5 years ago. Great student but he had only applied to 2 schools, one of them Princeton. He had 3 good years at Knox and is finishing an engineering degree at UIUC.</p>
<p>The Common Application website also has a list of Common App schools that are still taking applications for 2009-2010.</p>