rejected! But who cares? I got wellesley to go to!
@GrandBudapest School doesn’t rank, but I’m in the top decile, probably around the top 7% ish! By no means val/sal 
@topkekse Oh haha, much higher than mine. I don’t think your GPA is “low” since you’re within the top 10% (top 7% in fact). But congratulations!
accepted! mostly attribute it to good scores/grades and decent essays. also applied through questbridge program which may have helped. congrats to all who got in, and best of luck to those who didn’t. U never know what impossible miracles might come out of this next week.
Hi guys, I got into Swarthmore as well as Wellesley! Could someone please help me choose between the two schools? I would greatly appreciate it! Thanks.
Let’s try to cheer this discussion up! Got accepted early write because of my unbelievably ridiculous “Why Swarthmore?” essay (I wrote it in 30 mins and I talked about how I loved their name, how I also love Taylor Swift, how I want to be the Ferb to their Phineas… y’know the usual). Everyone (i.e. me, my friends, my teachers, my counselor) honestly expected to get rejected because of my retarded essay, but apparently they appreciate diversity even in their essays. XD
Btw, who’s going to that Swatstruck thing?
Does anyone know how to get off the waitlist?
@SuhDuh S going to Swatstruck. He is having a hard time deciding between Pomona and Swarthmore and Wash U. Going to Pomona and Wash U accept day too. felt badly about not being able to go to admit days at middlebury and bowdoin but atlas it is necessary to start pairing down and making thoughtful decisions with only one month away.
@fencingchick I would write your regional rep and express your continued sincere interest in the school maybe citing specific examples unique to swarthmore of why you continue to feel you are a great candidate but definitely psychologically start moving on and FALLING IN LOVE WITH OTHER SCHOOLS, go to admit days at other schools and def make that all important may 1rst deposit to another school. LOVE THE SCHOOL(S) THAT LOVE YOU BACK!. IF YOU get in great but if not I am sure there are other fabulous schools that you can thrive at academically and socially. I don’t believe there is only "one right school " that you can be happy at. If you read other CC post you will see you are in good company with many disappointed students who got wt listed or rejected at what they believe is their first choice school. I would love to see a thread started by someone(maybe you) of students who didnt get into their first choice school and than went onto love the school they went to. I can tell you my older S did not get into his first choice school at Penn and now couldnt be happier at Berkeley. He would tell you a yr later he is glad he didnt get into his first choice school.
@momof2eagles I will predict this will be between Pomona and Swarthmore. They are quite similar except for the weather. Wash U is a completely different animal.
@SuhDuh: The real truth of standing out from the crowd is to stand out.
When you have a through line which ties all of what you are saying together as related to whatever theme you have chosen, and you work that, putting elements of self into it, it shows.
Swarthmore wants more from you than your geek. Congratulations.
Has Swarthmore sent admission letters (and packets) through snail mail?
@Vanskelig we havent received ours yet and we live very very close. notification just came out thursday though.
@momof2eagles Have you got yours? I live in California and just got mine an hour ago.
@Vanskelig yes we actually got it on saturday just got misplaced in the shuffle of college mail. S registered for admit days and is excited. Are you going?
Yes! I live in New York and received mine on the 26th. It also contained my financial aid package.
I have 34 ACT 4.0 W GPA, leadership, many extracurriculars, over 300 volunteer hours, several APs, very difficult senior course load, very good writer, and great recs and was accepted and sent my decision early on the 9th due to “special interest”. I am very pleased to have been admitted and will most likely attend, but I am a bit confused as virtually every other school I applied to has denied me. I got denied from Columbia ED, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Rice, Lehigh, and Notre Dame and waitlisted from Carnegie Mellon and Bucknell and am still waiting on Tufts. When I got my early acceptance with great interest I figured more good news was to come based on how difficult it is to get into Swarthmore, and was quite shocked by so many denials, especially from schools I considered to be safeties. Does anyone have any input? I am just confused and a little shocked at how it has turned out.
@topkekese Congratulations!!!
@fudge217 in my opinion, the prestige and overall quality of Swarthmore is too incredible to pass up, though Wellsley is a great school, it cannot compete with Swarthmore. Especially if you are considering going to grad school, as Swarthmore is known to get students into top graduate schools. In the end you should probably visit both and pick the one you feel most comfortable in, obviously if you hate it at Swarthmore you shouldn’t attend. Good luck with whatever you decide, im sure you’ll make the right choice for you.
S really having trouble making the final decision between Swarthmore and Pomona. Had applied to swarthmore ED and originally deferred so it def. was his first love but in the last several mos partly because he had no idea he would get into swarthmore RD he has opened himself up to other great LAC. He is going to both admit days.