Is anyone else devastated from their Smith rejection?

sarahfylw
Sat, 26 Mar 2011 19:21:36 +0000

@teachandmom
I’m so sorry about your D and I wish that the two of us were both entering the class of 2015. Coming from Punahou, a school in Honolulu, HI that doesn’t really produce many applicants to small liberal arts colleges such as Smith (I might’ve been the only applicant from my school this year, I’m not entirely sure,) it was definitely a shock as I thought that my location, and my lack of need for financial aid, would really help my application.
Is your D considering sending an appeal? I’m thinking of doing that to either Smith or Middlebury, as I got rejected from both, but feel as if I’d be perfect at both.
My mother went to Smith for a few classes while she spent a semester at UMass at Amherst in an exchange program with USC, and she loved it, and told me that I would be a perfect fit there. Your D and I are similar in those character attributes, and it really is Smith’s loss.