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05-11-2008, 07:55 PM
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#46 | | Senior Member
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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.
| oh, please... | 
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05-11-2008, 08:18 PM
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#47 | | Senior Member
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| nngmm:
Unfortunately, all you can really do is ignore it. That poster showed up about a year ago, shortly after a Daily Jolt thread suggesting that Jolters make a concerted effort to disrupt this forum.
The first post from this poster was arguing that Middlebury Vermont was not a more isolated location than Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. | |
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05-11-2008, 10:24 PM
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#48 | | New Member
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| please
stop hating
stop drinking that haterade | |
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05-11-2008, 11:36 PM
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#49 | | Junior Member
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Originally Posted by interesteddad nngmm:
Unfortunately, all you can really do is ignore it. That poster showed up about a year ago, shortly after a Daily Jolt thread suggesting that Jolters make a concerted effort to disrupt this forum.
The first post from this poster was arguing that Middlebury Vermont was not a more isolated location than Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. | Do you deliberately try to misunderstand and misrepresent everything you read or are you really making a genuine effort to engage in honest discussion? Or, when you say "all you can really do is ignore it," do you mean that you just ignore valid points that other people make and continue full-bluster ahead?
Seriously, man, you didn't even go to Swarthmore. You have zero first-hand experience. | |
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05-12-2008, 07:23 AM
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| Hey, everyone,
not that I'm trying to rain on your feud, but some of us would actually like to read the stuff related to this topic.
So if you could move with the argument in some other thread (or PM) ...
Thanks! | |
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05-12-2008, 10:48 AM
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#51 | | Junior Member
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| seriously this topic is abt people on the waitlist and did they get in .
did any internationals get in | |
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05-12-2008, 10:51 AM
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#52 | | Member
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| ^^ A girl from Croatia that lives in Hong Kong reported acceptance off waitlist in "Waitlist success stories" thread | |
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05-12-2008, 12:37 PM
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#53 | | Junior Member
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| oh man that means theyve sent out there intial admissions and i wasnt in it
that sucks | |
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05-12-2008, 01:12 PM
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#54 | | Senior Member
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oh man that means theyve sent out there intial admissions and i wasnt in it
| I don't think you can really read into it that much.
We are only talking about Swarthmore taking a dozen to a few dozen waitlist students. They aren't mailing out waves of acceptance letters. They are adding a student here, a student there, usually with phone calls.
There's simply no way to know where they stand in the process.
Interestingly enough, the girl from the Hong Kong school believed that another person in her class had been offered a slot off the waitlist and turned it down before she got the call. You never know...this could have been a case where Swarthmore really wanted to take someone from this particular school for long-term relationship purposes.
We can't know. Each case is individual. | |
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05-12-2008, 02:17 PM
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| ^^^True.
She attends UWC, and Swarthmore's one of the schools that give scholarships to students from those schools.
I'm just wondering how many spaces for internationals are available... and if there still is room, if they are going to take more than one from a particular country... | |
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05-12-2008, 02:29 PM
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I'm just wondering how many spaces for internationals are available... and if there still is room, if they are going to take more than one from a particular country...
| I don't think knowing any of that would provide any meaningful information on an individual's chances. We are only talking about a couple dozen or so from the waitlist, so a statistical analysis just doesn't shed any light. The sample size is too small.
It depends what they've "got" and what they need "more" of. Who knows, they might have been short on Croatian women studying in Hong Kong this year! | |
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05-12-2008, 02:30 PM
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| ya swarthmore rejected everyone my school i was the only one waitlist but they did take 3 from my country
but as far as each case is individual it might be true but every time someone accepts an offer that one less space in there total 20 slots | |
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05-12-2008, 02:32 PM
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| My country has one accepted.
I start taking my admissions rep's not replying my e-mails (for ~week) as a bad sign... sigh, kind of cruel to let me know where I stand this way... | |
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05-12-2008, 02:44 PM
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| i called to ask and they said they cannot tell me if theyve started giving out admissions or will they even give out admissions | |
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05-12-2008, 02:48 PM
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| Shucks, how did NY Times (was it Times?) know that they're taking around 20-25 students? If they told them, I don't understand why it's okay to spread it all over internet, but not tell directly to a waitlistee  | |
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