<p>Waitlisted at Haverford.
I’m panicked.
I need you, Swat.</p>
<p>I’m glad my previous post helped you see things differently. Yes, we all do deserve a spot at Swarthmore. Let’s hope Swarthmore thinks the same!</p>
<p>Haverford has a waitlist for transfer admission? That seems weird…but hey, at least it’s not a flat out rejection. </p>
<p>Don’t let the waitlist put you down, harrylovesginny. Keep a positive attitude and don’t let this whole process put you down. </p>
<p>Take care!</p>
<p>Thank you :). Yeah, I know, it seemed weird to me too! I’ve been looking up stats but I can’t find anything regarding transfer waitlists for Haverford, just regular admissions. Oh well. Maybe by Friday I won’t have to worry about Haverford. Fingers crossed…</p>
<p>Rejected from Haverford AND Bryn Mawr, waitlisted at Reed…currently finishing my last exam as a sophomore at Swarthmore College. :)</p>
<p>Ahh, thank you TheTransfer :). I think I needed to hear that. Good luck on exams!</p>
<p>Augusta,</p>
<p>Thanks so much! 
What you said is really reassuring and inspiring. It really shows that Swarthmore looks at the whole picture rather than just numbers, numbers, and more numbers.</p>
<p>Hope you did well on your finals!</p>
<p>Good luck everyone!</p>
<p>Twice seconded! Very encouraging posts, amendez and TheTransfer. I’m feeling quite philosophical today! </p>
<p>Hope you are all doing well!</p>
<p>word…i was rejected by wellesley. one college rejection doesn’t dictate all of them.</p>
<p>my parents took me to a revival of “a chorus line” a couple of years back and this thread sounds like an adaptation of the play fitted to transferring into swat. </p>
<p>if any of you are familiar with my postings, you’ll know that, unfortunately, i am not interesteddad and don’t have the same filters he does. the truth is that i have no clue whether any of you will get in as transfers. the odds are long. that said, if you don’t get in, you may have missed the preverbial bullet. this place is not for the weak of heart or the soft of brain. it is one thing to espouse the romantic notion of embracing the “intellectual eden” of swat and then confront the crushing reality that the intellectual din that is swat comes from hours upon hours and then more hours of hard work and studying. i am not saying this from the vantage point of a high schooler who had a nervous breakdown or came from an impoverished life in northern manhattan. i had high grades in hs and a pretty decent sat. i breezed through everything at a very competitive hs and i was not prepared for the amount of or difficulty of the work here. </p>
<p>that said, one of the posters here said they had a “b” avg at their community city college. if you get into swat, you will be eaten alive here. a lot of people claim that the workload is not that bad, they get in plenty of social life and still get “A’s”. those kids are the cream of the intellectual crop (as i thought i was going in, guess i was wrong.) it took me three semesters to get to that point and to finally start to rip down the numbers (letters) i was accustomed to in the past. i think that i used this analogy in another thread, that swat is the 500 lb weight on the rack. if you’re accustomed to lifting 10 lbs, i don’t suggest you go directly to the 500 lb stack and start lifting. maybe you try the 20 lb weights (haverford) first. </p>
<p>i hope you all get the decisions you want, but if you don’t, you may be the lucky ones. besides, attending swat is not predictive of future success. attending swat is only a merit badge to aid in success. what swat is, is a preparatory program for long arduous hours of studying and hard work helpful for first year associates at law firms and residents at massgen…and for life. my dad always says that its not the smartest that are most successful, its the hardest workers. i counter with “why not be both?”</p>
<p>Duhvinci,</p>
<p>I do understand what you are saying and do respect your opinion, but you really can’t say that I “will be eaten alive” at Swarthmore without having much proof. Having a b average should not dictate my potential. The b average that I did receive at my current college was a result of many personal problems that enveloped me, and therefore, caused a lack of dedication that should have been there. Also, just because my current college is a city college does not mean that it is of less intellectual caliber. Many students who attend my current college are by far in the top of their graduating class, but chose to attend due to financial reasons. Not to say that my college is as tough as Swarthmore, but students at my current college DO work hard. By no means am I “accustomed to lifting 10 lbs” because I know what it is to work hard. I do understand that more will be expected of me if I am accepted to Swarthmore. Also, I worked hard in high school and took the toughest curriculum there was available. An alumnae from my high school is currently a student at Swarthmore. She took the toughest curriculum available as well and graduated with honors, as did I. </p>
<p>As you stated, yes, it is nice to think of Swarthmore as an “intellectual eden,” but I am pretty sure we are all well aware of the reality that Swarthmore students face. We all know how much work we will have to put in if we are admitted to Swarthmore. We understand that we WILL have to work hard and study hard if we are admitted. </p>
<p>But in all honesty, I will not be shocked if I am rejected. Being rejected will probably be something that will help me out in the long run, as I can start out fresh next semester without any problems and truly place my focus on school. I am just hoping that Swarthmore realizes the potential that I have and sort of gives me a second chance because I know I am capable of doing well, which I do realize is highly unlikely of happening, but I am a positive person with a positive outlook on life. That is why I encourage others and try my best to put a positive spin on things.</p>
<p>Thank you for your input, Duhvinci.</p>
<p>Just checked the mail.
Waitlisted at Swarthmore.
I can’t say I’m not devastated right now. I am. I’m trying to keep my hopes high but… I just really needed this.
I hope to hear some good news from the rest of you though. Keep me posted :)</p>
<p>dude, bummer. i’m feeling your pain right now. if you don’t mind my asking, did you get the the letter in the “post” or online?
Thanks and keep your head up.</p>
<p>In the mail.
I guess no one else heard anything? Maybe waitlists and rejects found out today, haha. Hope you all get good news tomorrow then.</p>
<p>Hey everyone, </p>
<p>Just got my decision in the mail. Rejected :(</p>
<p>Don’t want to put myself down for this. I’m just looking forward to next year to see what will happen then. I’m going to try to bring my grades up significantly and apply again…</p>
<p>harrylovesginny, I hope you do get off the waitlist. Show as much interest as you can! Good luck and I hope you are off that waitlist soon.</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone else too!</p>
<p>Amendez, </p>
<p>I really can’t tell you how sorry I am to hear the bad news. I was really rooting for you to get in. Especially after reading your kind responses on here to everyone, including a person I don’t know if I could have mustered up the dignity to kindly respond to. Good luck next year, I really hope you get in. </p>
<p>Thank you for the encouragement about the waitlist :). Trying to keep my head up. </p>
<p>To everyone else: good luck. I really think tomorrow will bring good news for you all.</p>
<p>Hey all,</p>
<p>I’ve been waitlisted, too, I’m afraid. </p>
<p>amendez, I’d also like to express admiration: your attitude will carry you far. </p>
<p>harrylovesginny, are you going to remain on the waitlist? If so, best of luck.</p>
<p>Yeah, I am. Are you? Are you going to send any extra materials in? Sigh. I hate the waiting. Best of luck to you, too.</p>
<p>I haven’t posted before, but I thought I should add something, as I have been following this post a bit. I got rejected from Swarthmore as well. Good luck to all the wait-listers. This was my second reject from Swarthmore (not easy to take), but I honestly hope that everyone who is waitlisted gets in, because it is an excellent school. I am waiting (very hopefully) on Haverford’s waitlist to move. I’m keeping my fingers crossed, but it sounds as though there were quite a few transfer applicants in general this year. Again, good luck!</p>
<p>A big thank you to harrylovesginny and to Wondercatt! Thank you for your kind words, I truly do appreciate it! Keep at it, you are so close to being accepted! Stay motivated :D</p>
<p>Best of luck to anyone else who has been waitlisted! And, also, congratulations to those who have been accepted. Keep me posted, I would really like to know who was admitted. </p>
<p>And to those who were rejected like me, just know that it’s not the end. Continue doing your best at your current college and stay motivated!</p>
<p>Take care and good luck.</p>
<p>Happy Birthday to me…</p>
<p>Tomorrow, tomorrow. It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to, but if I don’t get in, I still know what my B-day wish will be.</p>
<p>(Blow out all my candles) I wish that Amendez and Duhvinci switch places. (And that Duhvinci realizes what a truly sad person he or she is for trying to dishearten a bunch of people who are just chasing a dream… It amazes me that even at somewhere like Swarthmore, where individuals are looked at holistically, there is still a person with such a narrow view of the human experience that he or she thinks intellectual promise, drive, character, and worth fly out the window when a student takes a different path than the one society has deemed right for people our age. Duhvinci, I have seen your posts on other threads, and I am absolutely appalled at the elitist bile you spew from a position of imagined superiority. I wonder, do you spend this much time on cc because you don’t fit in with the other swatties who are busy trying to make the world a better place instead of oh… i dunno … always being that PROVERBIAL fly in the soup?)</p>