***Smith Class of 2022 Applicants Discussion***

Did scholarship notification only come in hard copy? Any email or update to the portal?

Email to check the portal. Her package was a Smith tee shirt. Nice touch and much appreciated!

@Auracle The difference is $5000 per year, plus Zollman recipients also get the Stride paid research opportunity. And Iā€™m not sure if they do this for all Zollman/Stride recipients, but they offered to fly my D out for accepted students weekend (we live in Chicago). Sheā€™s a white kid from the suburbs, so it wasnā€™t a diversity fly-in. She received her Zollman notification in the snail mail last year, but Stride recipients also received it by snail mail, so the email ā€œletterā€ seems to be new this year.

Hope that helps!

@smcirish
They offer Stride to fly out too.

@OldbatesieDoc We already received our t-shirts last week.

The STRIDE scholarship notification came via email. We are expecting another package today from Northampton, I can only guess its the official package with everything in it.

I was at Smith today - confirmed that all merit aid information has been sent out and there will be no more notifications coming.

@CValle so does this mean decisions were already sent out? The dean of admission said they would be released the 23rd, but I wasnā€™t sure if they would be postmarked that day or if they were just being put online that day.

@swtaffy904 My daughter was an early write, did not get a STRIDE or Zollman, got a $10K/yr Presidential Scholarship. That notification was not separate; it came with the Financial Aid package and there was a special note in her snail mail package that came later.

Did anyone just get an email from Smith?

@hapisjoy Yeah, I did!

@hapisjoy Yeah I did! Says decisions will come out Friday by 5pm with financial aid

@hapisjoy I got it as well.

Good luck to everyone !

Yes. Do you think itā€™s a good sign that they want to make sure we can get into the financial aid portal, or just a generic message to everyone?

I think itā€™s just a generic message to everyone. I really appreciate that Smith gave us an exact time and date though!

I didnā€™t get the email! Worried!!

Donā€™t worry! Just a mass email to everyone. It is probably stuck in a server somewhere.

Why would the admissions office set up accounts for people even if they didnā€™t get in? I tried the pin number that was sent out and was given access to a profile set up for me. Does anyone know if this is standard for a lot of schools? Just seems weird to me that I would have an account made for me if I end up getting denied

@jmastro095 Can you explain what you mean by a profile? Do you mean like the portal with the checklist?

Yes, what screen on their site and what steps did you take to set up the account, jmastro095?

@SpareOom @westcoaster2018 I logged into BannerWeb with the pin that was given in the email that they sent out yesterday. It brought me to a page of financial information links, and when I clicked on the award tab it said ā€œthis information is unavailable at this timeā€