Revival of the mawrters!

<p>sillypossum: i dont think bryn mawr is requiring a writing sample this year, although i'm submitting one to most places i'm applying anyway. </p>

<p>also, i found the link to virtual bryn mawr to log in.... but i dont have a log in! where did you get such a thing?? im guessing this is because i havent actually submitted my application yet...my common app isnt finished, because im lazy/procrastinating. </p>

<p>there were tons of people there, i probably didn't meet you...haha oh well. its the idea that we were both there that's cool. </p>

<p>zykuri: yay for returning to CC! we need people like you to keep the bryn mawr thread alive. i LOVE snow. it was like, one of my main requirements for college: must snow there. haha just kidding...kind of. thanks for all the dorm info.</p>

<p>I don't remember exactly when I got my virtual bryn mawr log-in... but I got it through snail-mail. Maybe after I submitted my pre application?</p>

<p>You get your id and password when you submit your application. THat's when I got mine.</p>

<p>God, I'm so nervous. ONly a couple more days.</p>

<p>Bryn Mawr is in a great location. Students have the option of going to U Penn or downtown Philly on easily accessible public transportation, but no one has to do so. There is more than adequate retail within walking distance and/or two train stops away. Anyone who wants to go to downtown Philadelphia can do so easily, but no one has to do so. A student can make AMTRAK connections by taking local trains from Bryn Mawr and can get to the airport by train. My D, who is in her second year at Bryn Mawr, has friends studying in New York City and she takes the bus up to visit them on weekends. My daughter does go into Philly - for music events and restaurants usually.</p>

<p>Academically, my daughter tells me that one of the things she likes most about Bryn Mawr is that almost all students take their studies seriously. She has been pleased with her professors and I have been impressed with the personal contact she has with them and the interest that they have shown in her. </p>

<p>Bryn Mawr was not my personal favorite of the schools at which my daugher
was accepted, but I have been very pleased with her college experience.</p>

<p>thanks for sharing, invirginia! bryn mawr is also not my mom's personal favorite of the schools i am considering, but hopefully she will be as pleased if i choose to go there as you have been. </p>

<p>ladies, i am soooo proud of this thread. yall have been great at keeping the posts alive. i PMed some people who listed bryn mawr on their stats profile- maybe they'll join us! keep it up!</p>

<p>no, Inspiration, thank you. And by the way, that's ladies and a dad.</p>

<p>Yay, so glad to see the BMC forum revived. I've been checking it frequently hoping someone would (wo)man up and begin discussion again...</p>

<p>I'm applying to Bryn Mawr as a transfer and just had my interview last week. I think I expressed a lot of my interests, desires, and ambitions quite well, but I also flaked out on a bunch of fairly important questions (I'm not the greatest speaker and this was also my first interview!)</p>

<p>Does anyone know how important the interview is at Bryn Mawr? Any transfer students or applicants here?</p>

<p>According to an article in the showcase under Pem Arch, the interview is mainly meant as a chance for applicants to learn about the college. Apparently interviews hardly ever affect admission decisions at BMC :)</p>

<p>good- bmc was one of my first interviews and although nothing shockingly horrific happened, I did not feel it was my best.
They asked me a lot how I felt about a women's college, and how my parents felt about it. And what I would do with my free time if I could do anything.</p>

<p>okay. </p>

<p>I GOT A PHONE CALL </p>

<p>circa 2 minutes ago</p>

<p>and I'm in</p>

<p>CLASS OF 2012</p>

<p>AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH yay</p>

<p>OH MY GOD CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!</p>

<p>thats so awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! bigtime congrats!</p>

<p>wow i dont even know what to say!!!!!!!!!!!! omg omg! haha im so excited for you.../jealous. </p>

<p>YAY!</p>

<p>Thanks! I'm so excited!!!!</p>

<p>Oh, my God!! I'm so happy for you!!</p>

<p>Sorry, I'm applying RD, so hopefully I'll be posting the same msg in a few months. I'm international by the way, so haven't had all the nice interviews and campus trips you guys have had yet! I'm so proud of you!</p>

<p>YAY ME TOO. CLASS OF 2012.</p>

<p>(we have a facebook group. you should join.)</p>

<p>Congrats discord-harmony!! This is sooo exciting!</p>

<p>Yay! Congratz to both of you!</p>

<p>I will see you around in the fall :)</p>

<p>Congrats!
I'm applying ED2... I made up my mind not to apply ED anywhere, since I was going to compare financial aid and all that, but I just kept realizing that I really really want to go to Bryn Mawr. My visit there was wonderful (despite the pouring rain) and I've just been so impressed with everything I hear about it. I also have to say I love the Athena statue... Any tips for getting in? Thanks to everyone for the information!</p>

<p>Congratulations, guys! </p>

<p>I'm a current frosh - I figured I would chime in a little on a few of the questions that have been asked.</p>

<p>Number one, our anthro department is phenomenal, and Professor Murphy is really fantastic. (I took 101 this semester.) They're not shy about letting students handle artifacts, and we got a lot of hands on experience, which was wonderful. Creative writing is also a really strong department; my CSEM (college seminar, a required class for frosh) professor is part of that department and he was wonderful.</p>

<p>Someone asked about academics, and I think it's sort of a mixed bag. We are one of the most academically intense schools in the nation, and if you don't want to do work, this is - flat out - not the place for you. That said, the academic horror stories at Bryn Mawr are, at least in my experience, somewhat exaggerated. You will have a lot of work, and you will need to manage your time wisely, but I never had to skip out on things that I wanted to do because I had too much to do, and I was never in a position where I had to stay up at night to do work. I'm also working eight to ten hours a week on top of classes, with a schedule that's full of other things. I think it's important not to procrastinate - I got my anthro reading done over the weekends rather than doing it at night - and it really helps to do work ahead of time, but it's manageable.</p>

<p>And, with dorms... reslife usually does a really good job of giving you what you need. There are a lot of different types of dorms with a lot of different types of rooms; there are singles, doubles, triples, and quads. Singles are usually relatively small, doubles come in basically two shapes - one room, where two people share a room, and two room, which can mostly be found in one particular dorm, with one smaller room and one larger one. Triples have three rooms for three people, and quads have three rooms for four people. I'm currently living with one other person in a triple, because one of my roommates left toward the beginning of the semester for health reasons. I feel like roommates are often hit or miss, but they are fantastic at putting you in the dorm and living space that you need to be in. I cannot really fathom why my roommate and I were put together - she's an incredibly nice person but we're wildly different people with wildly different living styles - but I am really happy with where I'm living and my room. And if things don't work out, and things sometimes don't work out, transfers are always possible, so don't freak out about it too much. They'll put you where you need to be.</p>

<p>Congratulations again - I'm so excited for all of you!</p>

<p>Hey everyone, I'm a current student in the class of 2010. I just wanted to echo lepisostidae in saying that the academic horror stories are surely over exaggerated, even when you get to sophomore year. It all has to do with effective time management, and not letting everything snowball (a lot of people here like to spend a lot of time complaining about the workload, contributing to everyone's stress, in my opinion). </p>

<p>Congrats to everyone - see you in August!</p>