Scholarships!

<p>those of you who got your scholarships... are you already admitted?</p>

<p>The scholarship notification is wink that, yes, you've been admitted, arriving in advance of the formal notice of admissions.</p>

<p>hm, so if i haven't gotten anything, does that mean i haven't been admitted?</p>

<p>No, gcheng, all that means is that you didn't get a scholarship. :) Most people (I do believe?) don't win scholarships, which is why they're an honor to receive.</p>

<p>We'll have to wait until Friday to know for certain what's going on with our decisions.</p>

<p>I'm a Dunn Scholar! I finally got my letter today! Mail takes forever to get to the middle of nowhere: central CA.</p>

<p>btw, gcheng, my letter stated, "While Smith College does not extend official offers of admission until the end of March, we have chosen you and a small number of other applicants [as Mary Maples Dunn Scholars]."</p>

<p>Congats Mimeea!! Looks like the Smith class of 2010 is off to to great start. Pretty talented bunch of women!</p>

<p>"Not Princeton- Dartmouth."</p>

<p>Yes, Princeton and Dartmouth. Dartmouth is on the link you sent. Princeton was added as part of the agreement for the junior year intervisitations.</p>

<p>"Do you know if they provide some sort of support/faculty mentor like STRIDE?"</p>

<p>Our experience is that it is pretty hard to miss advising/mentoring at Smith. If anything, they go quite a bit overboard.</p>

<p>Eh, Mini, I can see the advertising now: spend a year at Dartmouth and experience <em>real</em> binge drinking...or was your mind not going down that path?</p>

<p>There seems to be some confusion.</p>

<p>You stated “Engineering students with a 3.5 GPA are guaranteed admission to the engineering graduate programs at Princeton”</p>

<p>I was responding to that comment. </p>

<p>While students may be able to study at Princeton during their junior yr, as well as abroad, I don’t believe P’ton is part of the consortium of colleges that have a direct enrollment agreement which allows Smith engineering students with a 3.5 to matriculate to their graduate program. That was the point I intended to convey.</p>

<p>I understand. And I was saying that, as part of the agreement for the junior year exchange, Princeton also joined the graduate consortium.</p>

<p>T-Dad - Dartmouth is part of the graduate consortium, not the undergraduate exchange.</p>

<p>How many of you young women are very serious about attending Smith if (when) accepted? The class of 2010 could be a dazzling array of bright young women if you did.</p>

<p>I'm really unsure at this point...</p>

<p>I'm planning to go to Open Campus- that could be the deciding factor! (considering I haven't had the chance to visit yet.)</p>

<p>{And I was saying that, as part of the agreement for the junior year exchange, Princeton also joined the graduate consortium.}</p>

<p>No, P’ton doesn’t have an agreement with Smith. P’ton doesn’t offer the guarantee to its own students. Consequently, they didn’t feel it was right to offer it to Smith alumnae.
If the truth be told, engineering grad schools have a dearth of women applicants. If a student graduates with 3.5, they will almost certainly be admitted to one of many top programs. e.g. Cornell, MIT, P'ton et al.</p>

<p>Mimeea...Absolutely visit...you must! (I sound like Yoda!!!!) :) A visit to Smith is essential; really a visit to any college you're interested in is essential. Please don't make a decision without it! Smith's campus is beyond gorgeous and will be the first thing to strike you...visually. Take some time and talk to the women at Smith, and you will find the other side...intellectual, heady, intense, fun. Enjoy!</p>

<p>I'm planning to go to Open Campus- that could be the deciding factor! (considering I haven't had the chance to visit yet.)</p>

<p>Mineea, it appears your mother must not be adamantly opposed to you attending a women’s college anymore. :)</p>

<p>rlt- I'm working on her. :) She still isn't thrilled with the idea to any extent, but she's willing to go to open campus with me and see. The thing is, she is overtly conservative. If it was her choice I would be going to a certain nonselective religious school in PA- which I would hate! We watched the I am Smith video this morning, from the few glimpses of the campus it showed - wow!</p>

<p>Considering app. 98% of kids at my school stay instate for college, if I hadn't gone to Harvard SSP a year and a half ago I would most likely never have found Smith or considered going to college on the east coast. While I was at Harvard, I discovered one of my classmates in my spanish class is a Smithie (now a senior). She really impressed me.</p>

<p>i may go to open campus, though my prom is on that friday, and swarthmore's ride the tide is also the 20-1... i just need to see how my work schedule/my parents' schedules work out.</p>

<p>{{though my prom is on that friday, and swarthmore's ride the tide is also the 20-1}}</p>

<p>You're deciding between Swath and Smith? This should be interesting.--lol</p>

<p>mimeea - im still trying to get my mom into the whole idea of a women's college. aahh i never knew it would be so hard convincing her. kinda random but i went to harvard ssp last summer.</p>