Super excited to hear back in a week or so from Wellesley! But it's actually the only all-female school I applied to; I mostly applied to small, east-coast liberal arts schools. Out of curiosity, what are some of the coed places people applied to?
U Michigan, New York University, Columbia University, Princeton University. Columbia and Princeton are more "well, on the hilarious chance that I got in, they'd give me great financial aid" side of things, U of M because a local scholarship is guaranteed to pay 100% of my tuition there, and NYU because of the writing program. With regard to my first choice of school, I'm pretty torn between Wellesley and Barnard. Anyone else feeling that way?
I applied to Carleton. All the other co-ed institutions I applied to were my safety schools, and they were only co-ed because I couldn't find a good women's safety school.
The single sex aspect was quite important to me throughout my college search.
Apart from Wellesley, I also applied to UChicago, Pomona, Swarthmore, Cornell, Northwestern, and Bryn Mawr. I like Wellesley, but UChicago and Pomona are my favourites. Would be really torn if I was fortunate enough to get into both of them!
Does anyone have any idea approximately how many % of EE applicants get a "likely"? In another post on another thread someone says about 50%, which is unbelievably high. Can someone please verify?
D also applied to Rice, Swarthmore, University of Rochester, Boston College, Brandeis, Harvard, Vandy and super safety Drexel (accepted with $$$ - won't attend). We are from Texas.
Shootastar, my guess (based on an attempt to make sense of conflicting reports) is that about 35% get likely letters, and then 20% of the rest eventually are accepted, which would approach 50% for all EE applicants eventually being accepted.
I applied to Ahmerst, Swarthmore, Brandeis, Cornell, MIT and University of Utah (scholarship, so it's a consideration) in addition to Wellesley. Also, I am pretty anxious you guys. Less than a week and we might know if we get in or not.
I'm nervous yet so excited. It's kind of weird feeling because you can't be 100% sure of the outcome... either I'll be leaping for joy when I get my likely or staring in disbelief if I get a possibly or unlikely... I feel like it's life or death!
