<p>I was accepted:) I’m so happy! My computer couldn’t play the video though. It is strange that such great candidates were rejected and I was accepted D: My stats were OK but not that great. What I was strong in was recommendations, art supplement and interview but still, I didn’t have a GPA like rkim12 and I didn’t send my SATs. All I can say is that with those stats I am sure your going to get into a wonderful school.</p>
<p>I don’t know about the rest of you but I’ve been unable to access CC since about 6:30pm. Glad to see it back up. Congrats to all the new admits!</p>
<p>I have been accepted! I also tried logging into CC earlier and could not gain access.</p>
<p>jaz-- we were crashed here as well. My favorite CC sites were down.</p>
<p>Don’t know why. Maybe CC Central will advise-- likely overload of some
sort.</p>
<p>.02 David</p>
<p>I don’t know how to express my feeling right now , I got rejections from my hopeful colleges - Smith, Moho Lafayette and the other colleges are all high reach for me. I don’t know what to do now. But still, congrats to all that got accepted.</p>
<p>@valuntina i know how you feel. Smith must have had some really amazing applicants to waitlist or reject so many solid students. I have an unweighted 4.0, my application essay won a national competition, I’ve done tremendous amounts of community service and planned a trip that I’m taking this summer to work with slaves in turkey, and i have quite good ECs… it just shows those chance me threads don’t always hold up. Who knows why they decided what they do? </p>
<p>Congrats to all those accepted though! I truly am excited for you :)</p>
<p>I bet if you look at all the people who were solid and got rejected, they were people who needed substantial financial aid. I think that is the final cut for Smith. Actually I know it, I saw the Dean of Admissions say it in an interview online.</p>
<p>Smith has the highest percentage of Pell Grant recipients of any high-ranking liberal arts college in the country, so I don’t know how you could come to that conclusion. What the Dean of Admissions DID say is that they are need aware for the last 3-5% of all admissions, as they check what part of the financial aid budget they have already spent before deciding whether they can continue to admit without regard to need.</p>
<p>VADAD1, could you please supply the link to the Dean of Admissions interview? I’d like to see what she said.</p>
<p>Sure.</p>
<p>[Colleges</a> Where Need for Aid Can Hurt Admission Odds - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/education/articles/2010/03/23/colleges-where-need-for-aid-can-hurt-admission-odds]Colleges”>http://www.usnews.com/education/articles/2010/03/23/colleges-where-need-for-aid-can-hurt-admission-odds)</p>
<p>She said at the end of the process, they take kids who have a high degree of financial aid and put them on the wait list.</p>
<p>That is how a prospective student with a GPA of 4.5 and an SAT of 2330 ends up on the wait list at Smith. </p>
<p>I am quite sure if I was making $250,000 a year instead of $50,000, my daughter would have gotten an acceptance today.</p>
<p>Smith College is a private college and can do what they want with admissions. I understand that.</p>
<p>Hi everyone,
I just wanted to say congrats to everyone who was accepted. To everyone disappointed, I’m truly sorry.
2014</p>
<p>VADAD1, thank you for the link. I would agree that Mini explains Smith’s policy accurately, as painful a reality as that is for those who were rejected or waitlisted.</p>
<p>Also the article says that those at the bottom of the pool with high need are wait-listed…hard to know what that means though</p>
<p>Lili, it means you aren’t an athlete and you aren’t an underrepresented minority.</p>
<p>I don’t think I am buying that a student who is top 2% in her class and has outscored the average Smith admittee by 400 points on the SAT is at the “bottom of the pool” using any other method.</p>
<p>Carolyn, I can only take the Dean of Enrollment at her word, which was “take out of the class and place on the wait list those with high levels of financial need”</p>
<p>Yeah yada yada yada…“bottom of the pool”. I’ve figured out what that means too.</p>
<p>VADad- I’m sorry your daughter did not get accepted. But I don’t think the comments you are posting about Smith’s admissions policy are helpful, useful, or accurate. The article, which is two years old, clearly states that Smith is need blind until the very end of the process, and then it exercises some need sensitivity, with many factors being considered, need not being the only one. And that that is only done for students who are in the lower end of the stats range, which is clearly what is meant by “bottom of the pool”. </p>
<p>This is consistent with what Smith tells students throughout the process. It’s 99.9% need blind, in most cases. Only in a very few cases, at the very end of filling the class, is need factored in at all and even then, only along with a large list of other factors and for a very, very small number of students. I don’t think that a student with a 4.5 GPA and a high SAT score (keeping in mind that Smith is SAT optional and de-emphasizes the SAT and other standardized tests) would qualify in this small end group, which is really tiny. I know many students, who were not ethnic minorities or athletes, who received a high degree of financial aid, and graduated from Smith with me. One of my classmates, the smartest girl I knew, was from a not well known public high school in a small town where her parent worked at a fast food restaurant. Another one of my friends grew up in a literal war zone. I had friends who worked their way through Smith, and some that didn’t. </p>
<p>When you’re rejected, or waitlisted, it hurts. And sometimes it’s comforting to reach for what you “know” to be the reason why you were rejected. But unless you’re sitting in the admissions room, or privy to the stats of every girl in the class, you can’t know that one reason or another is “the one” why things didn’t work out as you hoped. As others have said, Smith is increasingly competitive, receiving many applicants of the highest calibre (over 4,000 this year). Putting together a class of 6 or 7 hundred out of that is very difficult, and it means that by necessity, some well-qualified applicants will not be taken.</p>
<p>SmithieandProud, I simply don’t believe you. And since your school was featured in an article about schools that keep students out based on financial need, and your Dean of Enrollment admitted it point blank, I don’t see where me telling the truth about the admissions policy is hurtful.</p>
<p>Now, if you work for Smith, and you would like to pull up my daughter’s file and tell me where she came up short, I’d be glad to hear it.</p>
<p>She had a 2330 SAT score, with a 760 SAT in Chemistry, 750 In LIt, and 730 in Math II</p>
<p>She has a 4.5 GPA and she is in the top 3% of her 430 member class.</p>
<p>She is taking 6 AP classes and honor physics this year.</p>
<p>Now, if you want to tell me that is at the “bottom of the pool” with regards to stats, go ahead and tell me that. But I know you are way off if you try and tell me that.</p>
<p>Sorry I didn’t read your whole post before I posted that, I see some of my remarks are off point.</p>
<p>There seem to be some people here that work for Smith. You want to convince me I am wrong. </p>
<p>Find someone who can tell me where my daughter didn’t stack up. Have that admissions official PM me and I will PM them my cell phone number.</p>
<p>By the way, Smith’s own financial aid website says that financial aid being exhausted has impacted “1 to 4 percent” of the applicant pool in recent years.</p>
<p>1 percent of applicant pool is 40
4 percent of the applicant pool is 160</p>
<p>160 is a pretty big chunk when you are talking about an admitted class of 600-700 girls.</p>
<p>It’s a long way from being 99.9% need blind.</p>
<p>[Smith</a> College: Student Financial Services](<a href=“http://www.smith.edu/finaid/policy.php]Smith”>http://www.smith.edu/finaid/policy.php)</p>