It sounds like you have already applied to a lot of places–I think it is entirely possible you might be done and should just sit back now and see what happens.
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How low are your scores? As a deferred applicant I think you should consider submitting if they are above Vassar’s pre-covid 25th%ile(ie the 2019 dataset).
Vassar doesn’t recruit for my sport, so I didn’t get recruited. I fully plan to do my sport in college but didn’t try to get recruited. I’ve reached out to coaches at other schools and have had some good responses.
I applied to Middlebury and Wesleyan, so well see.
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One additional thought: my older child is a sophomore at Smith College and absolutely loves it. She is an athlete and really appreciates the opportunities offered at Smith, both in terms of club sports and varsity sports. Her classes are incredible and she has a really active social scene. Her experience at Smith inspired her younger brother to seek out a LAC with an open curriculum–which led to Wesleyan/Hamilton/Vassar…
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You can calculate it yourself. For each semester grade in an academic course (English, math, history, social studies, science, foreign language, arts), A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1, F=0. Add up these values, then divide by the number of grades.
And if you go to Smith you can do the 5 college consortium Home | FCI (fivecolleges.edu)
I just did it and got a 3.9
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Thank you!
I wonder if this is an indication of test optional now being a handicap in admissions. Top 10%, 3.9 UW, lots of APs, and that record i suspect would prob have been an ED acceptance at Vassar, had there been a 1500 SAT to support the application.
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Not sure I follow. What if she doesn’t have the 1500? How would going back on TO have helped this applicant?
IF she had had a high test score, that she could have submitted, i think she would have gotten in. The rest of her application is very good. I am saying that I believe that highly selective schools are now, 3 yrs after class of 2025 (the ones who had the hardest time getting a test in time for apps), favoring applications supported by decent test scores. Her deferral seems to confirm that.
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I see. I thought you were referring to the school’s TO policy. I’ll confess that I remain agnostic about whether any given school is or is not sincere in what they say about their TO practices/preferences. I’ve always held the view that, even where schools mean what they say and don’t disfavor, even slightly, kids who don’t submit, it has to put pressure on the rest of the application because it’s one less data point. I think where TO is very helpful is when you have a kid with clear academic rigor and a consistent record of high performance who, for whatever reason, doesn’t sit for that test and do very well. I’ve lost count of the stories of kids who fit that description who went on to do fabulously in college and beyond.
You may be right in this instance. We’ll never know, though to your point I have the general impression that Vassar was holding on to test scores longer than many of its peers. But who are we kidding? Once Berkeley and Chicago went TO, the flood gates opened.
Great. I wish you had posted in the forum earlier. We might have had a conversation about your decision. With your credentials plus being a recruited athlete, your chances would have been much higher than they were. My D faced a similar dilemma in that she was a heavily recruited athlete who really liked Vassar, and she was a big priority for their coach in a sport that does recruit there. But in the end, the information we received from several reliable sources indicated that athletic recruiting at Vassar was a bit less clear than it was at most other competitive D3 schools. She ultimately let Vassar go and wound up at another HSLAC, where the coaching pull was much more than it could have been at Vassar. At least that was the skinny available to us at the time. Still, she and we sometimes wonder if she should have rolled the dice and tried to get in with Vassar. I and we suspect she’d have been happier had it worked out, but that’s life.
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Only 48% of enrolled students submitted per most recent CDS. That combined with lots of anecdotal stories about TO admits—and Vassar’s decision to go permanently TO—makes me skeptical it was the lack of test scores that made the difference here.
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That’s exactly what happened to me. I struggle with testing and my scores never reflect my actual academic ability.
And they’re very generous with merit aid, so the tuition/room/board is probably not going to be the sticker price.
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@Knab123 you seem to have already applied to a good number of colleges. Any chance you already have an EA or rolling admissions admit?
What is your sure thing on your college application list (because you like it, it’s affordable, and you are likely to be accepted).
I got into UVM with the presidential scholarship and a small school in NC with almost a full ride. Applied to UVA EA but I’ll hear back in February. The other schools I applied to are either reaches or reach-y realistic so I just have to wait for those.
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Is UVM affordable? If so, great, you have a sure thing in the bag in the northeast.
What made you apply to the NC college? Think of the reasons…it might be a good choice.
And good luck with your other applications. With two acceptances and seemingly a lot of pending applications, I’m not sure you need to apply anywhere else at this point…why do you want to do so?
If you are OOS for UVA, that would be a reach also.
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In state for UVA so that helps
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