But wouldn’t Tuesday be 2 days before Ivy release day? We heard from William and Mary yesterday at 5pm. As far back as I could find history on W&M release dates, they have never released on a weekend. I feel like all bets are off in this very strange admissions year.
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Yes so could it be tomorrow sure. As I said I have no inside info, just alumni interviewed for 20+ years. Typically several days prior to Ivy and or I can’t remember a Monday.
Means it’s a pretty narrow window either way.
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Wow. Our kids are kind of kindred spirits. Mine is in an intense STEM program and also a concert violinist! AND, she wants to pursue acting and has worked as a pro actor as a kid and is interested in composing musicals and film scores. So, trying to balance violin practice w/ Complex Analysis, Discrete Math, music composition and Shakespeare competition auditions has been tough. I really wish kids didn’t have to be at this level to do this. I feel like the expectations just rise and rise. She got into UMD school of music for violin performance but knew she wouldn’t be competitive at top schools. Applied to those for theatre but had math and music on the list. I think she will end up not doing a BM in Violin. It’s just too much w/ all the ensembles. So, she is looking for a school where she can be kind of spikey and kind of rounded.
That change of heart must have been tough for you. It is so much work and money invested for the parents, not just the kid. Sending you some hugs now.
My neighbor’s daughter graduated from Kenyon, and she gushes about it. Really loved it. But, I hope Vassar will be on your list too. Mine also invested in the essays, going on about theatre opps and the female math faculty. I hope those essays take our kids over the top there. Also, I think his exploring phase would be attractive to Vassar – they are all about the cross-disciplinary student. And, I’ll bet his violin supplement was awesome.
Pulling for your kid on the admissions! Would love to meet you and yours at a welcome day!
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Totally similar! He’s composing a bit on Ableton (using violin sounds to make electronic music!), has 2 YouTube channels which combine using left brain skills, unusual music, scripting, acting and humor. He has natural ability in STEM but little interest in it. He’s all over the place.
So the commitment to violin performance was a super intense thing for him - all or nothing - and his goal was a BM at Ann Arbor or Indiana. And when he realized (after months of agony) that he wanted to have some educational breadth and a little more income safety, he did a 180 and thought he’d not play violin at all. But I wasn’t surprised when he picked it back up 6 mo later and now wants to play in the college orchestra/pit orchestra/ensembles….whatever.
As far as I was concerned re: music (when we bought that conservatory violin ($$$$)) was that I just wanted to see him play his violin for pleasure until he was 80 y/o.
OK, so our kids need to work on some violin-centric musical or something.
It has been a learning curve w/ all the cost of violins, lessons and workshops. DD’s is a $12k Jordan Hess, and I know that is a great value for these things, but it was hard. She owes us at some future point!
Yours sounds like a wise, self-aware kid. Definitely someone who would thrive at Vassar. Fingers crossed!
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I agree with everything you’ve said here and am encouraging my DD to think of WL as a rejection. To me, banking/investing in a WL option is a lot like having a crush on someone and waiting/hoping they will like you back. Not a great look. Having said that, my DD was waitlisted at Smith and William & Mary and she wants to still pursue W&M, so I’m leaving that for her and her college counselor to work on. I say, let’s focus on the acceptances!
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Did they accept that amount of kids RD last year or in total?
I believe they accepted around 2100. It was readily available from them on Google search. I don’t know how to post the link here.
Couldn’t open your link but I looked at the Vassar Common Data Set for 2021-22. They accepted close to 2200 kids for a class of around 680. They accepted 301 out of 754 under ED. So RD was around 18.6% last year. Hard to guess what it would be this year without knowing the number of spaces left after ED.
Relevant part…
“ Vassar students have had a tough year, and so have many prospective students who hoped for a spot in the college’s Class of 2025. On March 31, Vassar notified those in the regular decision round of their admission status. For administrators and students alike, COVID-19 triggered an especially competitive and grueling year of the college admissions process.
According to Dean of Admissions and Financial Services Sonya Smith, Vassar received 10,884 first-year applications this year, a record high number and a 25 percent increase from last year. The admission rate this year was 19 percent, down from 24 percent last year. Smith explained the school won’t know how their yield rate shifted until students accept their offers.”
Yes, here are the exact numbers from the CDS (ED included in total):
Total applications: 10884
Total admitted: 2193
Total enrolled: 679 (includes 301 ED)
ED apps: 754
ED admitted/enrolled: 301
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and here are the waitlist numbers from the CDS:
Number of qualified applicants offered a place on waiting list: 1526
Number accepting a place on the waiting list: 634
Number of wait-listed students admitted: 96
So that’s just over 15% of those accepted a waitlist spot who were offered admission. That’s one of the better rates I’ve seen among LACS.
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Any update on when Vassar will release its decisions?
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Im really hoping for tonight!
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same here!
Do they usually send out an email the day before they announce?
Vassar is our last one to hear from, and I am so over this process!
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I just called, and they said “By April 1!” I’m not sure why I thought they’d tell me! 
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Why are they being so secretive about it! They must know. Ha!
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