I got an email AND call from admissions -- waitlisted - Page 3

arador · 05-11-2008, 12:06 PM

As for identifying her, she is "majoring in biology with a biochemistry AND a pre-med focus," along with her race, home town, test scores, and she was a cancer researcher. Are you trying to tell me it would be hard to find the specific student that has all that within a wait-list pool of ~400?

duckedtape: I'm a "rat"? What? [yea—CC sent me an email with your original post pre-editing.]

interesteddad · 05-11-2008, 12:07 PM

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Regarding negativity and honesty....I suspect most students are ready for the "next step" in their lives after four years wherever they matriculate.

Amen. There's a reason college is four years...because three is not enough and five is too many! At age 22, college students are ready to move on.

There's also a reason college students study abroad junior year...because the change of pace comes at just the right time -- after two years of growing up as freshman and sophmores and before the final push to the finish line senior year.

momof3sons · 05-11-2008, 01:00 PM

And there's a reason that some Swat students choose NOT to do a study abroad...like there are so many courses at Swat still to be taken and not to be missed. That would have been my son.

I, too, have pleaded with the mods, to no avail, to remove the stickied "all work and no play" thread. Ridiculous.

nngmm · 05-11-2008, 01:33 PM

My daughter also opted not to study abroad (as did my son at another top-notch school). Both felt that academically they would miss out if they went abroad for a semester.

interesteddad · 05-11-2008, 02:23 PM

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And there's a reason that some Swat students choose NOT to do a study abroad...

Actually, a slight majority don't study abroad. It's about a 60% - 40% split. That doesn't factor in Swatties who do something abroad for winter break or summers.

It's a challenge for science majors to study abroad; tough to find programs that offer science/lab courses to keep kicking the can down the road towards a major.

embeezy · 05-11-2008, 04:28 PM

I, too, am really thankful for all the words of advice from interesteddad. While not everyone may agree with him, it's a welcome reassurance to have someone who knows the ins and outs of Swarthmore take the time to answer all the anxious questions from prospective students and their parents. It's nice to know that in a world where college admissions is so unfamiliar and intimidating, there is a friendly poster in cyber world willing to help us out.

duckedtape · 05-11-2008, 04:33 PM

is that why he insulted people before?

embeezy · 05-11-2008, 05:27 PM

If I'm remembering the same instance as you are, the insult was called for.

duckedtape · 05-11-2008, 05:40 PM

nah
he went pretty crazy

Warning. or so.

embeezy · 05-11-2008, 06:09 PM

Well, ID has been helpful with my questions, which was my point.

duckedtape · 05-11-2008, 06:11 PM

of course he has
Even though I never asked him anything I was always appreciative of him helping everyone and he seemed like a really nice person. But then all of my good thoughts went away with that thread. Perhaps he was stressed when he posted, but dang, he lost it.

arador · 05-11-2008, 06:19 PM

Duckedtape—rereading that thread, while I think what ID said could have been phrased differently, he made a lot of legitimate points. Especially considering that AE and HC Alum and a few others constantly seem eager to jump at him.

Who exactly moderates this board? Is it just a generic CC admin or a specific Swarthmore moderator?

duckedtape · 05-11-2008, 06:22 PM

well the phrasing that he did use was quite bad. This thread i believe is moderated by a general mod.

A.E. · 05-11-2008, 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by interesteddad

myronnie (who is a female, BTW) wrote....and I quote:

That was in a thread about Williams acceptances. You're assuming that applies to the Swarthmore essays. I don't believe myronnie has said anywhere that her mother wrote her essays to Swarthmore.

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I don't think there was anything unreasonable about my advice, whatsoever. I'm with Canela. What we "made" our daughter do was treat admissions reps she had met and communicated with during the process with respect and that included the courtesty of a personal e-mail to three or four college adcoms advising them of her decision to enroll elsewhere.

Wow, great. You're so morally superior to myronnie's mother. I'm really in awe. But, seriously, boasting about your own parenting is hardly an excuse for butting in on someone else's relationship with her mother, especially someone you know in the context of a paltry 14 posts on an internet forum. I don't know why you think it's appropriate to advise some high school kid to go behind her mother's back and communicate with college admissions officers, but it's not. Your understanding of the situation is superficial, at best, and definitely not substantial enough for you to start playing family counselor.

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And, BTW, myronnie better hope like heck that the college where she deposited doesn't still read their forum here. Two years ago that college withdrew the acceptance of a student based on statements made about drug use and drinking made by the student on CC.

Considering how easy it would be for a high school arch-nemesis to come here and spoof someone, that seems like pretty poor admissions office policy. I would definitely hope that Swarthmore wouldn't base its admissions decisions on information here but, rather, on the information it receives directly from the applicants.

interesteddad · 05-11-2008, 06:43 PM

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Who exactly moderates this board?

As near as anyone can tell, nobody.