<p>ah oh okay, i thought it was some student that administered it. my bad! and thanks, congrats to you watson221!</p>
<p>I am in!</p>
<p>Applied for financial aid, got 47k out of 56k will have to bargain though, but I’m extremely happy! Love it.</p>
<p>Rejected. This blows! 4th rejection in a row. I wonder if I’m ever going to be accepted in any of my top 5.</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone who got accepted and all the best to those waitlisted. For us rejects, let’s hope for better prospects!</p>
<p>Waitlisted! To be honest, since I was accepted into their fly-in, I thought i’d get in. ah well</p>
<p>awkwardpenguin13,</p>
<p>what is a fly-in? I am international so…</p>
<p>I got 3 rejections in a row before this, from Macalester, Colgate and Colby, two of them yesterday so I was devastated but this made my day :D</p>
<p>All the luck for waitlisted students!</p>
<p>I don’t mean this disrespectfully, but the comments of those waitlisted or rejected expressing disbelief and calling Bowdoin a “safety school” and “not near the top of my list anyway” since they’ve already been accepted by Ivies - that could be a factor in Bowdoin’s decision. They are assembling a class, not just accepting the best stats. They are looking for students who want to come to Bowdoin, can benefit from Bowdoin, can make a difference at Bowdoin. It’s a small school and they can’t admit too many students. So it’s not strange they might waitlist, or even reject a student who they don’t see as coming to Bowdoin, regardless of how impressive the student’s stats are.</p>
<p>Very well said college_query!</p>
<p>^^^I interpret that more as a knee-jerk reaction of a young person who is faced with disappointment. “You don’t want me…Well I didn’t really want you either.” I think it’s pretty normal.</p>
<p>It looks to me a bit like college_query might have something. Most of these ‘top’ students already have other acceptances under their belts, so they just expect that schools they considered to be safeties will take them. So knee jerk or not, they just expected to be accepted. If they were wait listed and Bowdoin really is one of their top choice schools, I think it is time for them to more strongly express their passion for the school. Otherwise, it just means they don’t have as many acceptances for their statistics.</p>
<p>Rejected. Bowdoin was one of my top choices, so it was pretty disappointing, but it sounds like this year’s pool was incredibly competitive. Weighted GPA just above 4.00, National merit commended 7 AP classes, 34 ACT composite, what I thought were really solid essays, a few pretty unique ECs including fiction discussion program that I started with elementary school students. One great rec, one pretty good (probably). Sucks to get rejected, but congratulations to all who were admitted and all who will attend!</p>
<p>JoBenny, I think it’s probably about yield. None of these schools want to accept students who they think will end up elsewhere. I think College_query’s analysis is probably spot on.</p>
<p>I got in! But at this point I’ve given up trying to figure out why top-tier colleges make decisions because:</p>
<p>Accepted:
UVA (in-state)
William & Mary (in-state)
Notre Dame (visitation program, aka top 1% of admittance pool.)
Bowdoin</p>
<p>Deferred:
Princeton (not really surprising)</p>
<p>Waitlisted:
Wash U.
Carleton </p>
<p>I would have never guessed that I’d be accepted into Bowdoin and invited to the Notre Dame visit, yet get waitlisted at Carleton. But there you have it.</p>
<p>Just keep your fingers crossed I guess! Good luck to everyone!</p>
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<p>Info about me for reference:
2380 SAT, 3.98 unweighted GPA, 8 AP’s, top-20 high school, founder of one club and president of another, captain of my school’s varsity volleyball team and in 10th grade captain of jv soccer, member of We the People team that won 2nd place in the nation, coach of middle school We the People team that won 2nd place in the state, treasurer of National English Honors Society, part of a bunch of the NHS’s, 300+ hours of community service.</p>
<p>Accepted!! So excited, will most likely be Bowdoin bound next fall!</p>
<p>I was speaking more toward the reaction to rejection than to the school’s process of selection.</p>
<p>I was waitlisted with a 34 act, several AP classes, & tons of extracurriculars. I’m wondering if the fact that I didn’t visit was a factor. It would have cost about 1k for my mom and I to fly in…</p>
<p>Well, to make you feel good S1 was waitlisted after having visited, but there was a bad grade on his midterm report which was more likely the reason. But to tell the truth if they only had one more spot and it was against you and someone who was just like you, but they had visited, then it could tilt in favor of the person who visited.</p>
<p>i don’t think visiting has any bearing on admissions decisions, particularly since its impractical for many.</p>
<p>After watching my kids go through the college admissions process and sitting on the admissions committee for a very competitive professional school, its pretty clear to me that there is a fair amount of randomness and luck around acceptances for these kids who are at the tops of their classes. Schools are good at selecting a pool of great candidates they will draw from, but there are just not enough spots to go around to the kids who want them and as one of the the ivies said, these schools could fill their classes several times over with waitlisted and rejected students. I doubt very much this is about yield, I suspect it is much more about crafting a class of unique and interesting students. All these top 10 LACs are now ridiculously competitive, I heard the acceptance rate for women in RD last year at Bowdoin was only 11%.</p>
<p>That doesn’t really ease the sting right now, but it might a few months from now. If you were talented enough to consider Bowdoin you surely have lots of other great options!</p>
<p>@doonerak, couldn’t agree with your comments more. There is a randomness to this whole process. So may bright, talented candidates, so few places to go round. My daughter’s experience bears this out so far - accepted @ Rice and Michigan, waitlisted @ Bowdoin and rejected @ Northwestern. Same kid, three completely different outcomes. I do worry, though, that incredibly deserving candidates are slipping through the cracks. Rejection is hard for anyone to take, but it’s particularly hard on these honorable young people who are putting their life into their applications only to be told “no thank you”. I continue to hope they all will finally be accepted somewhere where they can flourish.</p>
<p>doonerak, great post. My S is in the class of 2016 at Bowdoin. His older sister will be graduating from a different but similarly ranked college in May. As our oldest, we had absolutely no idea about college admissions. Didn’t discover CC until after all her applications were in. She mainly received rejections, with a couple of waitlists. Miraculously, one of her waitlists turned into an admittance and she’s never looked back.</p>
<p>She’s done incredibly well, and the school has been a fit for her in so many ways. And she almost didn’t get to attend.</p>
<p>We learned so much about college admissions through her experience that we handled things very differently with S’s application process, with a much better outcome. </p>
<p>I completely agree the process can be very random. My D’s rejections were very depressing, because she was/is such an outstanding and deserving student. I’m so thankful that she was eventually admitted to a school where she has flourished and taken advantage of the multiple opportunities she’s had. She’s an example of how each of these schools could fill multiple incoming classes with students they rejected and/or waitlisted, and still have an outstanding student body.</p>