<p>Kind of surprised Wellesley came out with their decisions yesterday. Last year they were after Smith and MHC. Well I guess the competition for top candidates is really heating up. So things are getting very interesting.</p>
<p>I’m very excited about tomorrow! I hope all of us get in!</p>
<p>Bryn Mawr came out with their decisions today and historically they have been after Smith and MHC too.</p>
<p>Good luck ladies, and keep breathing!!</p>
<p>I’m so nervous…I was already rejected from Wellesley and Bryn Mawr, so now I’m really worried about whether or not I’ll get accepted at Smith. Ugh, I think I’m going to loose my mind before tomorrow comes, haha.</p>
<p>I think both Smith and MoHo are coming out tomorrow.
Good luck everybody!</p>
<p>Have all STRIDE scholars been informed of their scholarships? Or is there still hope yet for some of us still waiting?</p>
<p>So, with the day finally here and anxiety levels at their highest, I thought you all might enjoy a funny story regarding Smith and the application process to help lighten the mood!</p>
<p>Here goes:
Despite beginning the application process late in the game, I was able to call up my local Smith alumna regional director and get an interview. My interviewer and I met at a coffee shop, had a nice talk, seemed rather engaged and I thought my very first interview was going pretty well. At the end of the discussion, she got up from the table and, just as she was about to leave, said “I’m just going to go ahead and tell you what I’m going to write in my evaluation. I do this with everyone I interview because you’ll be able to read it anyway if you’re admitted.” I looked up at her with a really hopeful smile plastered on my face and she leaned over the table, got in my face and said with a sense of nonchalance, “I thought it was a COMPLETE waste of time.” I could feel my mouth drop open and my eyes bulge out as I thought my dream of Smith was over. THEN, she practically fell on the floor laughing as she blurted out, “I’m just kidding! Good to see you were listening. You were great.” I tried to laugh along with her…</p>
<p>Anyway, I really hope it was worth taking that joke at my expense! I would love to be accepted.</p>
<p>Best of luck to everyone and hope to see you in the fall!</p>
<p>CLS</p>
<p>Frankly, I think that’s a bit unfair of the alum to pull such a trick as that, but in any case, CLS, what’s the punch line? Did you get in?</p>
<p>Waitlisted
2000 SAT 30 ACT
3.6 GPA
Great ECs, great recs
What I thought was a great essay.
Interviewed, went well.
I’m still in shock. Smith was my first choice. This really sucks.</p>
<p>I didn’t. Flat out rejected. I saw in another thread that someone commented that schools such as Wellesley, Bryn Mawr and Smith (all of which I applied to and all of which rejected or wait-listed me) are basing their decisions on legacies, ECs and money. I am actually 22 and I applied to some of these schools four years ago and was accepted. The difference between me then and now is money. Four years ago, I could have afforded a Smith education without any financial aid whatsoever. Unfortunately, my father lost almost everything in the real estate crash over the last four years and then passed away this past December. So, I had to apply for financial aid…and what do you know, I was rejected by the same schools that had previously accepted me. Everything else, my test scores, my grades, my ECs, have improved. I am really disappointed. </p>
<p>Such is life… Congrats to those who were accepted. </p>
<p>CLS</p>
<p>Wallflower, I’m so sorry you’re disappointed. Write a good, strong letter telling them that Smith is definitely your first choice, and you’d go there no matter what. That’s what they’re looking for from the waitlist. Then also think about some other piece of information (or two), such as another excellent letter of recommendation, that could make your case more compelling.</p>
<p>Waitlisted </p>
<p>31 ACT
3.75 GPA
Great ECs
Excellent recs
Great essay
Interview went very well</p>
<p>I am devastated.</p>
<p>cls1990, I’m just now seeing your post. I am so terribly, terribly sorry for the way everything has turned out for you. I’m speechless. I feel that anything I say would be so trite, but I truly do hope it all works out for you. Give yourself a few days and then push for the ones that waitlisted you, if that’s what you really want to do; you have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Please let us know how you fare.</p>
<p>Xtea217, the same goes for you: think about what you want to do in terms of being waitlisted and if you really want Smith, then tell admissions in a letter it’s number one and you’d go there, no matter what. Then think about what would strengthen your application and make that happen.</p>
<p>Good luck to both of you, cls1990 and Xtea217.</p>
<p>Thanks CarolynB, I really appreciate your kind words. I feel kind of silly now, posting such personal stuff on here, but that was just me working my way through the rejection. 
I like to think I’m a pretty optimistic person in general and I’ll get over this quickly. On to bigger and better things, I hope! I still have admissions decisions waiting with other schools and will let you know how it goes!
I also just want to say that I am going to think the best of these schools by giving them the benefit of the doubt. I do truly hope that I was rejected because I simply did not match up to the impressive standards that the future class have set, rather than because I can no longer afford to pay my own way. I have tremendous respect for everyone who was accepted, and my self-pitying rant a few hours ago should in no way diminish their accomplishments. :)</p>
<p>CLS</p>
<p>cls1990, with your amazing optimism, resiliency and determination, you will do just fine in life and you will succeed in ways other people couldn’t imagine! Good for you! There is some wonderful school out there that will be thrilled to have you. Please let us what happens. Hugs to you!</p>
<p>CLS, I wouldn’t think badly of Smith because they are rejecting certain students based on financial need. They have to take these things into account. It’s reality. I just wish I’d realized how it would impact my daughter before the decisions started rolling in.</p>
<p>I’ll be better prepared with my other children, but my daughter has been wait listed everywhere except Duke, which hasn’t put out decisions yet. So…she is crushed beyond belief, and I feel like I let her down.</p>
<p>I just have to note here that Smith is 99.9% need blind in its admissions decisions. While I don’t know about Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, etc, there could be many reasons why someone is not accepted that have absolutely nothing to do with financial aid. Only in the rarest of circumstances is that ever even considered at Smith (and you have to remember that some women come to Smith from foreign countries in the middle of wars, from towns where everything they had was wiped out in man-made or natural disasters, many have families hurt badly by the recession). </p>
<p>It’s always possible that FA plays a factor, but really that’s the rarest of cases. More often it’s some other intangible reason that rejected students, of which there are many each year, can’t know. No one ever knows for sure why a school turned them down one year or took them the next. But certainly with a good dose of positive thinking, one can find the school that is right for them and matches their optimism with enthusiasm.</p>
<p>VADAD1, </p>
<p>I agree, and I understand the need to bring in students who can contribute financially, my disappointment is more a general thing than with the college. </p>
<p>I’m very sorry to hear that your daughter has been wait-listed. I can imagine how devastating it must be. My best wishes for Duke; I’ll keep my fingers crossed for her. You should not at all feel as though you’ve let her down, however. Every time I read a post on here from a parent I’m always amazed. I think it’s so great that you are dedicated enough to get so involved with the whole college process! For the most part, my parents left me to my own devices. Your daughter is very lucky to have a dad like you, and with your support, I’m sure things will turn out for the best. :)</p>
<p>CLS</p>
<p>That statement is directly contradicted by the Dean of Enrollment.</p>