Smith College Class of 2025 -- Regular Decision

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Early write. Handwritten note with quotes from essay.

GPA: 4.0 UW (4.0 scale), lots of APs (10 plus), consistent 5 in AP exams
ACT: 36
4 year varsity field hockey, captain
2 year varsity swimming
President, French Club
Science education oriented volunteering (multiple years)
Lots of science research, awards, recommendation from professor in university lab where she interned
CA state honor band, art portfolio
CA public school

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:+1:

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I got in last week! Letter came via snail mail, still no portal updates, and the letter had handwritten quotes from my supplement.

Stats

  • 100.68 weighted on a 100 point scale
  • 1450 SAT
  • Ranked 4/1421

Extracurriculars

  • Student Organization President and other positions throughout 4 years
  • Mock Trial/Moot Court Team Captain
  • NHS Tutoring Chair
  • International Moot Court Competition
  • Varsity Swim Team
  • School Leadership Team
  • 3 Legal Internships
  • Part-Time Job at an Accounting Firm
  • 2 Organizations I regularly volunteer for

Recommendation Letters

  • All Solid from multiple subject areas
  • My mother wrote the parent recommendation about my commitment to community service

Essays

  • General Essay: honestly pretty weak, not too confident in it
  • Music: wrote about Tomorrow by Fleetwood Mac, I really liked my essay and it was probably one of the strongest supplements I wrote

Miscellaneous

  • Public School
  • White
  • From NYC
  • Applied as a Political Science Major
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do you know how many students usually receive merit awards? i know that there is the stride program, but i didn’t see much else in regards to merit

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There is Zollman (less than 10 students), Stride (50 students) and Presidential (not specified). Again I would assume to something like 5% -10% of top accepted students?

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great thank u!

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I assume the same, 5-10% of accepted students. I wonder if they give out more than 10 and 50 figuring not everyone will accept them. I’ve seen speculation about that before.

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According to the Common Data Set the number of enrolled students that receive merit is less than 60 (for the last three years) and it varies from year to year. My understanding is that 10+50+x presidential is the amount offered, not the one accepted. However, I have no special knowledge and I could be wrong.

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Hi I got an early acceptance letter and these were my stats: 1290 SAT (I didn’t submit this score/technically there was just no SAT for me but did submit a letter explaining how I wasn’t able to retake the SAT because of covid and mentioned that on my practice SATs I was getting 1400s), GPA 4.35, I think at the time I applied I was ranked #12. I’m in International Baccalaureate Diploma Program and so I took IB classes only which were pretty rigorous both my junior and senior year. I also took 2 APs my sophomore (got As). Let me know if you have any other questions or want to know about my activities, etc. :slight_smile:

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Did everyone get the address confirmation email?

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As in like, address verification for international students, I got it but some didn’t I’m confused as hell:)

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I also got it. But I know five international students who didn’t

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We’re U.S. and no we didn’t get an email.

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Yes I think it is for international kids, dwr

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r they in the same country as u? I’m in the UK but umm 3 kids Ik from China didn’t get it, but I mean they could be sending those later?

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Yep. Everyone is from Brazil

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too quiet here… we need to be excited along with nervous… lets make some noise…

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Good luck everyone. I think March 26 is the date. 20 days to go!!! (not early, but many schools are going well into April this year.)

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Does anyone know of any early indicators of decisions from previous years?

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I thought the date would be March 20, no?