<p>I haven’t, but it is definitely being put onto my reading list…have you read it?</p>
<p><em>speaking of reading, I should be currently reading the first act of Hamlet</em></p>
<p>bella - yea, this has definitely been a learning experience for my entire family…I had no idea what to expect at my interview, what my essays should be like…what do you want to teach?</p>
<p>swat - I’m with you…I can handle a deferral, I’m know that i’m not going to be able to handle a rejection that well. </p>
<p>does anyone happen to know the percentage of deferrals that get accepted at RD?</p>
<p>its a collection of essays, hha so i havnet read all of them, but ive read some of them… it shows you how much impact swarthmores had on some people. i talkeed about that book with my interviewer, and i think that was the one thing she was kind of impressed about… hope it helped my chances…?haha </p>
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<li>and i am reading the second act of tempest! lol</li>
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<p>I have the majority of my other apps and essays done already because I figured it would be really hard for me to write about why I want to go somewhere else after I got rejected… I’m really glad I did that now, but it could end up that I did a lot of extra work for nothing.</p>
<p>The only essays I would have to do after hearing from swat are for vassar and grinnell, but those should be fairly easy since they’re a lot higher on my list.</p>
<p>I hope I don’t have to though ahiudhwjibrkj385ynk ahhhhh</p>
<p>I’ve read bits and pieces of “The Meaning of Swarthmore” Did anyone else get the dvd Swarthmore unscripted? I think thats what it was called? Even though this is ridiculously corny I cried when I watched it because I realized I just wanted to go there soooooo bad.</p>
<p>Swat 2014 - i feel the same way
being deferred will suck but being flat out rejected woo haha</p>
<p>i have NOT done any other apps yet. i know, im screwed, but ill get them done over winter break. im still waiting to hear back from michigan… thats the one school that ive applied to other than swat.</p>
<p>haha belladilauro, i got the dvd too! i thought it was kind of weird, ot be honest… hahaha but i liked it nonetheless.</p>
<p>I loved the Swarthmore Unscripted dvd! I actually gave it to my school’s college guide to watch it!
yea, it definitely made me realize just how much I wanted to go there…the one part that really stuck out is how that student (I can’t remember his name) talks about how he wanted to take a class on immigration, but there wasn’t one, so he just gets together with a professor once a week and they have “class.” It was then that I realized that I would have the biggest opportunity to grow if I went there (at least in my opinion)</p>
<p>hjoohnston - Though I don’t know the exact number, I’m fairly sure it’s over the 16% for the entire RD pool. Assuming you’re in line with the other applicants, they’ll probably give us preference because of proven commitment to the school. That’s just a general admissions rule, but I imagine it would apply more so at Swat–though they’ve got the scores and selectivity of the Ivies, they’re still lagging behind in yield numbers (% of those accepted who enroll). Last I checked, Swat’s yield is high-30s whereas most of the Ivies are over 50%.</p>
<p>(Of course, that could mean they don’t care too much about yield…)</p>
<p>Swarthmore sent me the Unscripted DVD a week or so before my interview. I finally got the chance to watch it the night before and I talked about it in my interview. Many of the people I know would decide not to apply to Swarthmore if they saw that DVD. </p>
<p>For me, it made me sad to think that I could get rejected from the place that is the perfect fit. I remember when the Christopher Edley said he walked on to Swarthmore’s campus and fell in love. It was the same experience I had less than 8 months ago.</p>
<p>I really liked the DVD, I thought that it really showed the diversity of the school…</p>
<p>yea, it is really sad to think that I could get rejected too…when I was thinking about it the other day, no matter how many other schools I looked at, my heart has always drifted back to Swat…and for the past 2 1/2 years I have been working towards getting into the place that i want to call home for the next 4 years.</p>
<p>You know, I feel like I have been working all along to get into Swarthmore even though I had never heard of it before April of this year. If someone had told me a year ago that I would be applying Early Decision to a place called Swarthmore, I would have asked what Swarthmore was and I would not have believed them. It’s interesting to think that Swarthmore is the only college where I feel like I really belong after only finding it less than a year ago.</p>
<p>tieeris,</p>
<p>Yeah I don’t know what I am going to do about my other applications. I spent so much time on my Why Swat? essay and now that my application is in I just haven’t been able to get myself to write more supplemental essays. </p>
<p>I am really hoping I don’t have to apply to all those other schools (11 others). Swat is really where I want to go, and I need to work more on the book I am writing over winter break.</p>
<p>Random question how did you guys hear about Swarthmore?</p>
<p>Here’s my story:
I was at a graduation party and I was talking about applying to Princeton. The valedictorian of my class’s mom said I should go and look Haverford because her son went there and now he’s a Harvard Med. So, I told my mom that I wanted to visit Haverford because I thought it would be a good school to apply to. My mom decided that we might as well hit up the rest of the tri-co while we were down there. We didn’t go to Bryn Mawr that day, but we went to Swarthmore. We left halfway through the tour of Haverford because I really wasn’t too interested. Somehow my mom and I ended up giving a ride to a mother and her daughter from my mom’s hometown in NC to Swarthmore and they were talking about how they had family there. Everything they were saying about Swarthmore sounded really cool and I hadn’t really heard of it before. Then I got on the campus and I absolutely fell in love. I always think these stories about how everyone found their perfect school are so nice!</p>
<p>yea, i haven’t started on any other applications, and i’m really not sure how I’m going to be able to do it.</p>
<p>for my Why Swat essay i use a song by one of my favorite bands to relate why I want to attend…i happen to be seeing them for New Years Eve, and if I get rejected, and they play that song, it will be really hard to listen too.</p>
<p>hjohnston- what song?</p>
<p>Salvation Song by The Avett Brothers…there is a line that says “we came to leave the world behind a better way”</p>
<p>How I heard about swat:
it was the summer of 2008, my friend was driving me home from after a long day of campaigning, and he was asking me what schools I was looking at. I named off a few, and he knew that I had met the candidate we were campaigning for at a Darfur rally, and Swat was really big in the Darfur movement. He had applied there (and been accepted, but ended up attending Yale) and he thought that it would be the perfect place for me. When I got home, I researched for hours and hours and fell completely in love with Swat</p>
<p>i heard about swarthmore while researching about vet schools. it was early in my sophomore year. it said 11 out of 11 studnets were accepted to vet schools, and that just caught my attention right away. I think ever since that point, ive been working towards getting in swat… i dont think i would have gotten good grades if i hadnt discovered this school. WHen i visited swarthmore my junior year and learned the details, i decided that this is the school for me.</p>
<p>How did I hear about it?..</p>
<p>My guidance counselor gave me a list of colleges I should look at. I live in New England and wanted to maybe get away for college, but not too far. Swarthmore was just one of the schools on that list. I thought the name was interesting, so I went onto their website. I fell in love right then.</p>
<p>I visited a few weeks later, and the host of my info session said that “At Swarthmore, we like to say that it is where your inner nerd is your outer nerd.” They talked about the rigorous academics, the anti-compeititive spirit, and the college’s committment to social justice. I had to leave the info session early to go to UPenn and on my April break 7 college tour, I found nothing that fit as well as Swat. (I am still regretting leaving that info session early, btw)</p>
<p>My story’s pretty boring – </p>
<p>My counselor gave me a list and Swat was on it. (She’s very good, you see.)</p>