<p>AHHH!!! I hate this so much! I honestly have no idea how I could have been waitlisted...they invited me to...and I attended...Discovery Weekened...and they sent me a fee waiver and an application extension after Discovery Weekend died out...that was something I learned all Discovery Weekeneders don't even get! Why must they toy with me!!!</p>
<p>Anyone able to provide information on the waitlists at Swarthmore?</p>
<p>I've been waitlisted atthree of my top choices...</p>
<p>I was waitlisted, too. I cannot even CONVEY my devastation right now. I truly, TRULY felt that I belonged there, and nowhere else. I don't know what I'm going to do now. I would also appreciate any info on the waitlist...</p>
<p>ohhh man!
waitlisted
i just dont understand?
i thought i filled the hottie quota :)
i had big plans as a 1st year swat student too
i was going to start, compete and star in swats 1st beauty pageant and was gonna rock the Birkenstock wearing competition and, for the interview, i was going to say world peace
now I wont have that opportunity. :( </p>
<p>well at least i didnt apply to mit as i would have been rejected from swat for sure. im not staying on the wait list got haverford, bryn mawr, wesleyan, ucla, berkeley, pending pomona. if haverford gives me enough aid, ill go there and try to make it over to swarthmore now and then to uproot the flowers and mug the students (watch out NJ pitcher!) :) </p>
<p>truly, congrats to you guys and us all!</p>
<p>wok, you got great choices, don't fret. Sorry Swat didn't work out, but I think you'll be very happy. And if you end up at haverford, and end up robbing me...well, I'm kinda thinking of of something I would to to get back at you right now, but I figure I'll know my reaction in 4 months, so I'll be prepared :)</p>
<p>And regarding the hottie quota...hm, if they didnt fill it like they promised to (although if guys got included in that then I can say I probably took up 3 or 4 spots myself...haha), then maybe we'll be checking out haverford and bryn mawr pretty often, best be checkin yo'self.</p>
<p>Where are you guys located? (So we can track the progress of letters)</p>
<p>...I'm in Louisiana...this really sucks...waitlisted at Swarthmore, University of Pennsylvania, and Washington University St. Louis...I'm just HOPING for a ray of light from Emory...if not, I'm going to have to make a decision that I've never wanted to have to make...what college to choose in Louisiana...the thought makes me cringe</p>
<p>I'm still so confused! Why would a college spend over $700 on someone and then later waitlist them? They've already accepted me once into Discovery Weekend, and I've even kept in touch with them since then...even emailed them and told them Swat was my first choice...argh...Emory...come here</p>
<p>sorry anonymous! i know you'll get into a great college anyways. besides, college admissions are weird like that.</p>
<p>I got my letter Thursday and I'm in southern california, javabytes.
I may have to join wok the line in mugging students :(
So far I've been accepted to Haverford, Wellesley, Bryn Mawr and Bowdoin but waitlisted at Swarthmore....and Scripps?? I would have thought I had the best chance at Scripps out of all those schools, so anonymous99 everyone is right about how capricious admissions can be.</p>
<p>I made the horrible mistake of not applying to Haverford or Bowdowin. I made the mistake of not applying to enough match schools...way too many reaches and not enough matches. If I could do it over again, I'd apply to atleast 4 matches. Swarthmore has been my dream ever since Discovery Weekend, but I just wasn't ready enough to have done ED...in hindsight, I wish I would have. Time to get to rolling admissions colleges...</p>
<p>"let them know how much you like the school...write a letter giving specific reasons you'd choose this school, visit the campus again (and make sure they know you're here), get another recommendation written, etc."</p>
<p>if swarthmore was so important, why didn't you apply ed? you may have used up all your goodwill with swarthmore when you didn't apply ed.</p>
<p>blacknblue, swarthmore understands that many applicants can't apply ED for financial reasons. if money is an issue, like it is for my family, ED is never an option.</p>
<p>For me personally, finances was not a reason. Rather, it was the whole idea of commitment that scared me. I quote from my previous post: "Swarthmore has been my dream ever since Discovery Weekend, but I just wasn't ready enough to have done ED...in hindsight, I wish I would have."</p>
<p>oh well, lesson learned for next time</p>
<p>OH WELL! I'm not giving up that easily. I'm going to try my very best to get through to Swarthmore.</p>
<p>Anonymous99: What are all of your options now? (if you don't mind my asking)</p>
<p>WWWTTTTFFFFFFFFFFikhslkjdfh0898@()#<em>@)$((</em>)@#(</p>
<p>"Dear (Name)</p>
<pre><code> You are one of a record number of blah blah blah....and I have placed your name on an alternate list for consideration...."
</code></pre>
<p>I just don't get this. I did everything right...</p>
<p>Rejected from Yale = expected.
Waitlisted at Stanford, Columbia, and Swarthmore = not expected.
I have yet to hear from Pomona, but I'm pretty sure I'm in, according to what the coach said in his e-mail to me. But I'm not sure I'm going to go.... AGHHHHH</p>
<p>What on earth?</p>
<p>I've been waitlisted at Penn, Swarthmore, and WUSTL. I live in Louisiana and have been accepted into LSU, Tulane, and Loyola. Rice closed my application because they supposedly never got my SAT II scores (strange, but they wouldn't reopen it...I made tons of calls too). I've also been accepted to Ursinus College in Pennsylvania. Right now, I'm waiting for a reply from Emory Univeristy (PLEASE KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED FOR ME EVERYONE!!!), and I'll know about all of my colleges. </p>
<p>I will just about kill to get off of nay one of those three waitlists...it sucks...but at the same time, I'm proud to be waitlisted at the number 4 college in the nation. It'd be SO MUCH COOLER to be accepted by Swarthmore than the other two.</p>
<p>a99: good luck to you, but...if i were swarthmore adcom reading your posts, frankly, i'm not feeling the love.</p>