<p>Emosen,
I just sent you a PM. My daughter is a freshman at Beloit. Her experience has been wonderful so far, and I’d be happy to answer any questions, or put you in touch with her. 
Carolyn</p>
<p>Decision:Rejected (I was fairly surprised)
SAT Verbal:740
SAT Math:720
SAT Writing:750
SAT Total:2210
SAT II:us hist:730 Math II: 690
AP/IB taken/scores:us history (5), eng lit, bio, gov, macroeconomics, ab cal. (pretty much all offered at my school)
GPA weighted:4.27
GPA unweighted:3.9
Rank or % estimate:top 10%
Essays: common app essay was alright. why vassar was good
Teacher Recs: good i think
Counselor Rec: i think pretty great
Interview:as far as i could tell really good
Hook (if any):
State or Country:CA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity:white
Gender:F
Legacy:no
Recruited Athlete & Sport:no
Important ECs:accomplished musician</p>
<p>Congratulations to those who got in, I know I would have loved to attend.</p>
<p>Son accepted today. We are thrilled. He got waitlisted at Vassar and Oberlin, so we weren’t expecting this. Congrats to all.</p>
<p>I really can’t seperate my memoriy about the open house or the first parents weekend - but my recollection (of both actually) is that it’s not critically imporant. I mean, how could they give out info at a session that only attracts X% of parents/students? What to bring/not to bring is fairly standard stuff - there are lists available on line. What I’d suggest though are the standard “extra long” twin size sheets for the beds, and a foam cushion top for the mattress - many kids find these most comfortable.</p>
<p>After those items, its pretty much clothes, room decor, computer/music.</p>
<p>Good Luck!</p>
<p>Oops re: Post #143. Posted on the wrong forum. Son was accepted to Wesleyan – Vassar’s just wishful thinking.</p>
<p>Just a question, how many people accepted to Vassar got accepted to less than half of their other schools? I got into Vassar, but I was rejected from Harvard, Brown, Princeton, MIT, Sarah Lawrence, Colorado College, AND Reed, so basically my safety was my only other choice. Still, though Vassar was my first choice, so it doesn’t matter. Anyone else with the same experience?</p>
<p>Rejected by Colorado College, Sarah Lawrence and Reed??? That’s pretty brutal, I have no idea.</p>
<p>Perhaps considering the absolutely unpredictable, inscrutable and utterly senseless nature of admissions (or should I call it rejections?), you could just say that it was really tough to get to any good college this year. Anyway it is supposed to get tougher and tougher, so bizarre cases like yours should become more common.</p>
<p>I got accepted to exactly half of the schools I applied to. However, my experience was similar to yours ColoBuddhist in that Vassar was the only non-safety school I was accepted at (my two safeties were Franklin & Marshall and Ursinus). I was rejected by Penn, Amherst, and Swarthmore (ED). I was also waitlisted at Haverford, but I prefer Vassar to Haverford so am not accepting a spot on the list.</p>
<p>I got rejected from all my Ivies (five of 'em), waitlisted at two schools, and accepted at 5 other schools besides Vassar (Amherst, Williams, Macalester, Northwestern, and RISD)</p>
<p>I’m actually having a hard time deciding between Vassar and Amherst. Umm? Any of you have any pointers?</p>
<p>STATS:</p>
<p>Decision: (Rejected, Accepted, Waitlisted) Accepted, wheeeoooo
SAT Verbal: 790
SAT Math: 710
SAT Writing: 670
SAT Total: 2170 (only took it once)
SAT II: 800 lit, 740 math I, 710 French (whut the hull! listening is definitely NOT easier than just written)
ACT: 35
AP/IB taken/scores: IB French SL: 7, IB Environmental Systems: 6
GPA weighted: 4.96 (my school now counts A minuses. I had …one.)
GPA unweighted: 3.99?
Rank or % estimate: Second after all the valedictorians/280
Essays: Common App = ridiculous and (hopefully) original. I wrote about hair and how it expresses characteristics of people (“Fair. Unruly. A tease”). My Why Vassar was my stock Why [insert school], but it was actually true in this case - I talked about my three goals in life and how I saw them being met at Vassar (lots of artistics).
Teacher Recs: Sweetass.
Counselor Rec: same
Interview: over the phoooone, more like an information session for me instead of grillin’ time
Hook (if any):
State or Country: Missouri
School Type: er…Public school, inner-city (pah, my city is like…the 6th whitest in the nation, so ‘inner-city’ doesn’t really mean much, but we are the most diverse in the district), ESL/ESOL, IB/Magnet, Middle Years Programme (I was a ‘middler’ and came to high school a year early)
Ethnicity: Multiracial (half-Korean)
Gender: F
Legacy:
Recruited Athlete & Sport: HaHA (so far, it seems as if few people have been recruited for sports. Sweeeet)
Important ECs: Student Government/Cabinet (Special Projects Commissioner, Student Body Vice President), Drama (Lead in 3 musicals and one play, Cappie awards for Best Actress, Best Song, Best Make-Up Technician), Chamber Choir (Section Leader), Studio Art (IB Portfolio Art), Tennis (PAH, it was just to hang out with the other asians), Science Olympiad (yay Ecology!), FBLA (got to nats), Poetry Out Loud
Other Factors: National Merit, NCTE Writing contest, National Honor Society, IB student, TASP (int’l summer program run by Telluride)
General Comments/Congratulations/etc: Anyone on Facebook? PM me</p>
<p>good jesus that was a really long post, my apologies</p>
<p>Grapes…I still think Vassar is the best. I just left the accepted students forum. It was a great event.</p>