<p>congrats! :D</p>
<p>Got a letter(it’s a big envelope!!) today!!!</p>
<p>^ Woo! Congrats! That’s freaking awesome. When was the letter dated?</p>
<p>Congratulations everyone :)</p>
<p>it was dated March 18th</p>
<p>^ Sweet. Man, this means I’ll be checking my mailbox like a neurotic weirdo for the next couple of days (though, I’m doubtful I’ll get one).</p>
<p>I’ll leave it to history to judge Carol. However, a few facts are in order.</p>
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<p>There was no new admission policy. Follow through with what? Serving low-income has always been “the institution’s historical mission”</p>
<p>And “Smith has not made a concerted effort to reach out to needy
students.” Smith broadened recruiting (read inter-cities, rural areas) to “maintain its enrollment”</p>
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<p>[DameNation:</a>
May 2006](<a href=“http://damenation.blogspot.com/2006_05_01_archive.html]DameNation:”>DameNation: May 2006)</p>
<p>[Home</a> - The Chronicle of Higher Education](<a href=“http://chronicle.com%5DHome”>http://chronicle.com)
Section: Government & Politics
Volume 52, Issue 36, Page A14</p>
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<p>The endowment is manged by an outside investment group. Smith’s
endowment is combined with the funds of a number of LACs, which was
done to reach a critical mass that would enable the college(s) to take
advantage of investment vehicles not possible with only one billion
under management. </p>
<p>A billion here, a billion there, and we’re talking real money. 
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<p>Carol was not involved with the consortium investment decisions.</p>
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<p>You aren’t serious? I live in Happy Valley. Smith college and the locals have always had a great relationship. The issues began in '04.</p>
<p>A very vocal constituency was furious because Smith evicted the low income housing
residents on Green St, and attempted to evict the owners of the much
beloved Green St Cafe.</p>
<p>Having said that, I’m thrilled Ford Hall came to fruition. Except for a few die-hard socialists, the relationship between the town and Smith is back to normal. Consider it a family feud and now all’s good. </p>
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After more than six years of fighting with Smith College, the
owners of the Green Street Caf</p>
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<p>If any woman deserved it, it was you. Congratulations!</p>
<p>Congratulations, Rocket6louise! I hope we hear soon about more good news from other CCers.</p>
<p>I’m just surprised that your decision came so early! Congrats!</p>
<p>Maybe it won’t be another week of waiting for everyone else either…</p>
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<p>No one would turn down admission to Harvard if the Antichrist were president.</p>
<p>"There was no new admission policy. Follow through with what? Serving low-income has always been “the institution’s historical mission”</p>
<p>And “Smith has not made a concerted effort to reach out to needy
students.” Smith broadened recruiting (read inter-cities, rural areas) to “maintain its enrollment”</p>
<p>New admissions policy, de-emphasizing SATs (after three-year study), resulting in a class with a much higher number of Pell Grant recipients, the highest among liberal arts colleges in the country. The study was started under Ruth Simmons. The decision, and the money to back it up, came from Christ. </p>
<p>“Carol was not involved with the consortium investment decisions.”</p>
<p>Christ was heavily involved in the decision to get Smith out from under the Harvard investment management - had she not, the Smith endowment would have declined about double what it actually did.</p>
<p>“A very vocal constituency was furious because Smith evicted the low income housing
residents on Green St, and attempted to evict the owners of the much
beloved Green St Cafe.”</p>
<p>The citing of the new engineering school took place under Simmons. (So if anyone was responsible for displacing the low-income residents, it was Simmons, not Christ.) You conveniently left out the amount of money Smith invested in replacement and new low-income housing in the community, for which she was lauded by Northampton’s mayor. And money which had not been pledged (or raised) under Simmons.</p>
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<p>MiChiamanoMimi, for the past few years folks offered STRIDEs and other merit scholarships have received notifications in the mail a few days before those not offered merit scholarships. Don’t take anything as a sign until decisions are officially posted on Friday.</p>
<p>Did any other CCers get any merit scholarship notifications? I didn’t. I’m hoping that it’s just because I live far away, though, that’s probably just wishful thinking.</p>
<p>^If you look on past threads, it takes the STRIDE letters a few days to move out west. I’m hoping as well, though of course they’re pretty rare, but I know from past years that they shouldn’t all have arrived yet (last year’s thread gives a pretty good idea)</p>
<p>^ Thanks for the info, California Dancer. :)</p>
<p>Does anything show up on portal about STRIDE?</p>
<p>No I fonrt think so, info. About STRIDE and all other financial info comes via mail, with the STRIDE info coming before the admissions decision</p>
<p>Can someone link me to the thread last year about the STRIDE?</p>
<p>OMG rocket! I’m so happy fir you, the whole time I was hoping you’d get one, knowing how crucial it was to you! Congrats!!!</p>