Has anyone recieved the engineering note from Swarthmore?

siusplau
Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:31:03 +0000

When my kids applied to our alma maters, there was a varying degree of responses. The most interesting was that Chicago waived D’s app fee, even though DH just got his MBA there–I thought that was cool.

When our son applied to DH’s undergrad alma mater (a last-minute decision-it wasn’t a great fit, but felt it was a likely admit). DH got a call from someone in admin (from his own class) telling him what a strong applicant class it was and many alumni children as applicants. We thought it was also code for–“let 'em down easy”. We told son he didn’t get in, but not to worry, he had a Caltech acceptance in hand already. Lo and behold, a few days later came a letter of acceptance!

As I’m writing this–I just realized that D just submitted her grad school app to Chicago–I don’t think she’s heard a thing about waiving the fee this time around!

I do have to say that when applying to Swarthmore–the real personal attention came from the face-to-face interactions. D felt they were more genuine than many other schools.