WAITLISTED lol

Colleges and Universities A-Z Connecticut College
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<p>soooo I got waitlisted! I'm rejecting their offer for a spot on the waiting list. it was, all in all, a very nice letter. stats for those who care (and to make those who got in/rejected feel better)</p>

<p>SAT: 2100; 620 math, 740 reading, 740 reading (2140 superscored)
SAT 2: US History 800, Literature 750</p>

<p>APs: 5s in world history, US history, and Lang/Comp</p>

<p>I sent in both scores, but asked them to consider the SAT 2s</p>

<p>GPA: unweighted: 3.97, weighted: 4.45</p>

<p>Senior year: AP Gov, AP Lit, AP Spanish 4, AP Studio art and design, AP Art history. got all A's by the end of term 2 when my transcript was sent in.</p>

<p>Extras: swam 4 years on varsity, 3 years of water polo, 1 year as captain. about 100 hours of community service as a swim coach</p>

<p>Essays: pretty damn good. my lang/comp teacher and counselor loved them. my counselor used to be an admissions committee member at UC berkeley.</p>

<p>Recs: haven't read them, but I'm sure they are good. my teachers said they put me in top 1% for everything lol.</p>

<p>so.. congrats to those who got in, condolences to those rejected, and commiseration to those waitlisted! going to see shutter island and eat carls jr now. score.</p>

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<p>wow, very surprising you didn’t get in</p>

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<p>i was a bit surprised too! but it’s ok
 shutter island was AMAZING so it definitely took my mind off things. anyone else waitlisted?</p>

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<p>My D was waitlisted. Huge bummer. Hope Shutter Island took your mind off of it, and that you have other options you feel great about!</p>

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<p>You probably were waitlisted because your stats were too high for Conn. As crazy as that seems, recent admissions practices call for rejecting students who admissions committees feel may be using the school as a safety. Since they believe the student will not end up attending, and because publications like U.S. news use admissions selectivity at ranking criteria, it is deemed to many colleges’ best interest to keep acceptance rates as low as possible. If you seriously wanted enroll at Conn, all you would have had to do is call the admissions office and tell them. You probably would have been accepted on the stop. Judging by your stats you’ll be fine, regardless.</p>

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<p>^^ Stats went UP this year, although I agree that they don’t want to be #2 on a student’s list. It sounds (honestly) like they got more applicants that look like the OP this year, and had to turn more away.</p>

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<p>wow
 being overqualified lol. but it’s all good; the stats that scared off CC did get me into Cal and UCLA. CC’s new strategy is somewhat right - they were kinda low on my list, and I would only have attended if I got enough financial aid to bring tuition down to instate UC levels (10,000). </p>

<p>Come to think of it, I really do think safety schools have that paranoia, and with good reason. For the supplement questions have you ever visited CC, met with a rep, or had an interview, I had to check No no and no. sooo yeah, they probably made the right choice to wait list me! I’m OK with it. again, congrats to those who got in :)</p>

<p>just wondering if anyone else got rejected/waitlisted with “too high” statistics??</p>

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And there’s your answer.</p>

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<p>As quoted in Princeton Review’s Best 371 Colleges 2010 Edition “Since Connecticut College has a close-knit community, personal qualities are also closely evaluated, and interviews are important.” So perhaps ‘horses for courses’ - those suitable for Conn may not be so for Yale and visa versa! And as Conn is an SAT optional school, they perhaps place more emphasis on other parts of one’s application.</p>

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<p>^ They do, if you ask them. (And I don’t think they want to look like Yale at all.)</p>

<p>But the OPs scores were not too high at all. They fell exactly within the middle 50% range of scores for this year, and so I assume half the applicants had better scores than the OP did. </p>

<p>So I disagree with it being a case of it being that she’s “too good”, and more of a case of making it obvious she didn’t care about the school all that much.</p>

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<p>Well, thank you for that Yurtle, as I’ve been quietly reading this thread. My daughter was waitlisted at 2 top schools, rejected from 7 top schools and accepted to Conn. Coll., Skidmore and 2 other safeties. Her stats were higher than Op’s, just a tad lower on SAT IIs, but higher SAT 1, not by much, but hers were 2170. 5s on APs with the exception of one 4, Editor in Chief of school newspaper, Leader in student government, various awards for French and Latin, Brown Univ. Jr. Book award, community service, Nat’l Press Honor roll, excellence in the classroom at a summer program for writing. Her friend whose scores are slightly lower got waitlisted at Conn. OP you should be PROUD of your accomplisments, for goodness sake, accepted to Yale EA!! Job well done. Crazy stuff is happening this year, it seems.</p>

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<p>oh
GPA 3.9 unweighted and school doesn’t rank.</p>

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<p>Ooops, my bad, must have gotten mixed up re: the Yale comment, OneWorld, but hey, UCLA and Cal!!! CONGRATS!</p>

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<p>Promise I’ll stop dominating this thread – just wanted to say that we considered Conn and Skidmore as targets – not safeties.</p>

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<p>My point exactly. While the OP is a good student, her treating Conn as a safety school probably showed, and probably really rubbed them the wrong way. It would do the same for any school. Personally, even if I was the best student out there, I wouldn’t call any school that accepted 40% or less of applicants a safety. 60%+ is my “safety” range.</p>

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<p>Well, all I can say is that there are obviously lots of talented students out there. For what it’s worth, US News and Review rank Conn as one the best liberal arts colleges in terms of providing undergraduate teaching (I am not referring to the overall ranking that most people quote)
17th equal among Holy Cross, Hamilton, Wellesley et al. Forbes rank Conn 51st among the top 600 universities and colleges, and therefore places it among the top 2% of 4 year schools in the country (if we use 2,364 as the number). Barron considers Conn as one of the 80 most competitive schools. By the same token whilst Harvard is inarguably the most prestigous university in the world, they don’t even feature in the US News and Review’s list of top universities for undergraduate teaching. That is because many reputations are formed on the back of research programmes.</p>

<p>If excellent undergraduate teaching is what you are after, then Conn is one of the places to be.</p>

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<p>Wow
I’m very pleased to read this. My son just visited and has accepted his place at Conn.</p>

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<p>Looks like a lot of WL activity starting to take place at other schools. Anyone on Conn Coll WL heard anything lately?</p>

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<p>I got waitlisted
international
and, they have notified me today that they are unable to accept me from their waitlist because their class is full
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