<p>The best approach is to simply take the attitude that it is Swarthmore’s loss and move on to the other great colleges on your list.</p>
<p>Admissions offices are not going to share opinions about your application. Understand that virtually every ED application they get is from a qualified applicant. Swarthmore gets very few unqualified applications in any round. It’s not about that. It’s about filling 900 slots – 15% recruited athletes, 450 Asian American, African American, and Latino/a students. A mix of engineering and music and theater and interpretation theory. Writers, and writing tutors, and bloggers. Political activists. And, on and on and on. When you really start looking at the numbers, they are very small in any given “category”, espeically for female applicants. </p>
<p>You can’t take it personally.</p>