<p>awww ladies on the waitlist best of luck! i still havent gotten anything yet</p>
<p>they were regular mail dated the 3rd, postage says they were sent on the 5th. </p>
<p>Yeah, but now I’m in a position where I need to either make a deposit at another school or ask for another extension and I don’t want to then forfeit the deposit if I decide to go to Barnard in the event that they take me off the list. I’m still waiting on decisions from Brown, Swarthmore and Wesleyan as well, and really need to compare financial aid packages. </p>
<p>I wish it was like senior year, where we had all of our decisions the same week basically and could lay them all out and compare.</p>
<p>oh nvm. waitlist for me too.</p>
<p>I can’t tell you anything about the letter, it went to my house, not school.</p>
<p>It’s interesting that their letters don’t seem to have a pattern? I guess priority mail for acceptances and regular mail for waitlist and I assume rejections, but home or school? What do they send on the 12th? I would think they would send all the acceptances first so they have a count. I can’t figure it out. Only rejections are sent on the 12th?</p>
<p>I think that’s reading into it a little too much ^</p>
<p>not necessarily- it may be a first batch of acceptances and then waiting to see if anyone is immediately like ‘no thanks, you weren’t my first choice anyway’ and then they can move down the list and accept or waitlist people they would have had to reject before. </p>
<p>at least, that’s how I’m thinking it’s gonna go.</p>
<p>I was waitlisted. :(</p>
<p>our sadness is palpable.</p>
<p>I’m so bummed. Do you think it’s worth telling them about my summer internship and how Barnard has been my dream school forever and such in the email or just simply say I want to stay on the waitlist?</p>
<p>My friend told me letters are good to send if you’re on a wait list because it differentiates you from others who were just using the school as a safety.</p>
<p>yeah, im doing the same thing- sending a letter. Also, we can call and see if they’ll give us specifics on what was lacking in our app and if there’s a way we can fix it. A better recommendation, something…</p>
<p>im very disappointed. if anything, i wish i had gotten a rejection instead.</p>
<p>Barnard especially seems like a school that would be open to those sorts of things ^, even appreciate it. Best of luck to you girls. Wait lists shouldn’t be taken as a rejection…it’s a very different thing. They’re basically saying they’d take you if it wasn’t for the amount of people that applied, you should be proud that you’re qualified for such a prestigious college.</p>
<p>This is really making me sad… I’m on my way home to check now although I hope nothing is there 
because I stay in the city if it were an acceptance it would have been earlier this week, right :-(</p>
<p>@thewoman Keep us updated!! No news from home yet, very anxious. :/</p>
<p>PaulaDanielle won’t get online until later tonight, but she didn’t get anything in the mail here at home…</p>
<p>how many ppl do they take off the waitlist…probably not very many…sigh</p>
<p>Hi @susgeek! PaulaDanielle’s mom, right? So supportive of you to be following this thread. I’m relieved she didn’t get anything in the mail yet. I just got home and didn’t receive anything either, and the mailman already left. I guess it was pretty safe to assume so because I live right here and if I ever was to receive any mail this week whether an acceptance or otherwise I would have gotten it by yesterday at the latest. Same will probably go for you, @meppie! Rooting for us! So I guess I’ll be with some of you guys for the 2nd batch…</p>
<p>Everyone who got waitlisted; mind posting stats? Also, PLEASE please don’t be too sad. I know it feels so much like limbo; I was in the same position last year except I actually leapt for joy and called everyone excitedly when I got waitlisted last year - among others, my college GPA was horrible (and it could have been more horrible than that - I had a bajillion Cs and Withdraws on my transcript… I could have brought it down to a record low if I didn’t do all those Ws), and my SAT scores the most mediocre, and to top all of that guess what? Asian. Overrepresented minority. If anything, that really still plays a difference.</p>
<p>I stayed in the waiting list forever and didn’t get an eventual rejection or acceptance, and decided to reapply after a year. From last year’s batch of applicants though, one of us got off the waitlist within 1-2 weeks of accepting a spot and sending an additional essay and final transcript. Another got off a little longer than that. Of those who eventually got rejected, one reapplied in the Spring, immediately after a semester, and got in. Let’s all not lose hope… I’m so sad! We’ll still get there! Hang on!</p>
<p>I’m game. </p>
<p>College GPA: 3.9
HS GPA: I forget the exact number, but I graduated with a 90 Average even from Laguardia HS of Performing Arts (the fame school.)
SAT: 800 reading, 690 Writing, 540 Math (obviously not my strong suit)
SAT II: 740 Lit, 690 US History, 590 World History
Ethnicity: White, Jewish
AP Scores: US History 5, Lit 5, Language and Comp 5
Extracurriculars
College- started literary publication (editor in chief) board of directors of NYPIRG (lots of volunteering for NYPIRG), SGA representative, College Preceptor (mentor for freshmen), Starred in 2 college plays, novelist and published poet.
High School- National Honors society, secretary of ARISTA, Theater Student Union Representative, Volunteered for temple choir and soup kitchens, Op-Ed Editor of School Newspaper for 3 years (youngest editor on staff), SGO studio representative and founder of the Student Court, team leader for relay for life etc
Honors
College- Dean’s list every single semester, Presidential Scholar, Thomas Hunter Honors Program
HS- graduated in top 15%, Class of 55’ Award (worth 1000 bucks) Drama Dept Special Recognition Award (worth like 300) and Middlebury College Book Award.
Essay about: there were ALOT of essays for Barnard, so the rundown: I wrote about how attending a women’s college reminded me of my all-girls acting camp and how empowering that was; college changed how I approached academic challenges; wrote about my internship with WET productions; I would teach a class on Southern Literature if I could teach anything…I think that’s it.</p>