<p>accepted!!</p>
<p>I love how everyone is claiming “WUSTL syndrome.” This is the 4th-ranked liberal arts college in the country, people! They received 8,000 applications for a class of 690. But if it makes the sting of the waitlist or rejection feel better, believe what you’d like…</p>
<p>It’s a possibility. Cornell (gasp, an Ivy!) and even Swarthmore (#3 LAC) have been accused of WUSTL syndrome.</p>
<p>In fact, many more colleges may be practicing this type of admission because of the economy and uncertain yields. I’m guessing the waitlists are probably going to be massive this year (MIT doubled the size of theirs last year).</p>
<p>Also waitlisted!</p>
<p>Oh boy, dreams do come true. Officially a Midd Kid over here, and with a financial aid package that shed happy tears from my mother’s eyes.</p>
<p>Flat out rejected. Although, I got into Claremont McKenna a couple days ago so I’m knew I was going there before this… Congrats to everyone accepted!</p>
<p>God Bless you Prodigy, what a great post and enjoy every minute of your triumph!</p>
<p>Yes, congrats to the new acceptees! :)</p>
<p>I too loved Prodigy’s post! (thought Arcadia’s was pretty accurate as well). Congrats to all of those accepted!!</p>
<p>Accepted!! I couldn’t believe it. I was waitlisted from Amherst yesterday and so was definitely dreading the Midd notification. I even logged on to the portal the minute decisions were posted (that’s 5am out here on the West Coast, although I did have to get up anyway for a 7:30am flight).</p>
<p>If I don’t hear good things from the Ivies on April 1st, it’s Midd for me!!</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone who was accepted, and to those who were waitlisted or denied, I know it sucks but I hope everyone can be OK with it and realize how many other amazing options there are.</p>
<p>Hello a Guy from vancouver, CANADA SO EXCIIIIIIIIIITEEEEEEEEEED =D lol i wasn’t expecting this acceptance totally forgot about the 27th … just woke up at 8 30 and realized it was the decision date and poof! ACCEPTED I still can’t believe it … Samething with many other ppl if i don’t hear a good news on april 1st, HERE I COME MIDD~~~~~~~</p>
<p>Waitlisted. Won’t be accepting the spot. Honestly, I’m not as disappointed as I thought I would be.</p>
<p>Hey Im from colorado and just got in yay!!! Im a feb and trying to decide whether I want to wait until then… any thoughts?</p>
<p>accepted!!! I’m really surprised – I didn’t think I would get in…</p>
<p>So excited!!</p>
<p>I know this is a very hard time for seniors was they are waiting for their results. Or receiving them.</p>
<p>You have to know, there is a great deal of serendipity in this whole process. That’s why the results can seem so strange – got in to more competitive school, rejected from less competitive school, or whatever. </p>
<p>Some of you will be rejected from your top schools, and end up lower down on your list. Several things to know: first, this is not a judgment of your skills, your intelligence or you as a person. When you have thousands of people going for hundreds of spots – and 95% of those people are in the same range of skills – the odds are against you everywhere. No matter your skills, no matter your success. Schools are looking for a student body of wide ranging backgrounds and talents. They’re not going to take all tuba players, or everyone from Idaho. So, if you were counting on your sculpting as pushing you over the top – but they already admitted two sculptors in ED – then it doesn’t help. So again – serendipity.</p>
<p>But I have one other thing to tell you: For most of you, your first choices are based on impressions – how you felt walking through the school, what the students you ran into were like, the cache of the school name, the US News ranking (which is really unimportant), reputation of a particular department. You will find, in the end, that NONE of this matters. All of these schools are the tops in the country. You WILL be happy, wherever you go – unless you don’t let yourself be happy because of grumpiness about your results. You WILL make good friends, you WILL get a top-notch education. </p>
<p>So, my bottom line: Feel good about yourself. You are among the smartest, most talented young people in this country. You are on your way to a great adventure. You will get a great education. And – thought it might be hard to accept this week – you will be happy.</p>
<p>Well said Quicken. I couldn’t agree more!</p>
<p>accepted Midd 2014, from Brooklyn NY… excited, but at the same time, it makes choosing a college to go to next year that much harder…</p>
<p>quicken is going around posting that post :)</p>
<p>accepted!! really surprised. female from toronto, canada :)</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone who got in! I hope you do decide to come here; it’s a lot of work, but you have tons of fun at the same time. I hope to see you in the halls next fall. 
Kenneth, Class of 2013</p>
<p>P.S.: to those who did not get accepted–don’t worry one bit. This was an especially tough year for applications, and just because you didn’t get an “accepted” letter doesn’t mean you aren’t qualified. Chances are you still have a lot of great options to choose from!</p>