accepted with leadership award!
Accepted!
GPA: 3.78 UW/ 4.9 W
ACT: 31
As and Bs
good essays and rly good Rec Letters
Submitted Resume
@imankhanani we canât afford it. Not at only 15k a year. Gotta be realistic.
Accepted, but unfortunately not attending. I got the leadership award of 15k/yr. I also got a bunch of need based aid, but i simply got better deals elsewhere.
Sat- 1360, 1370 superscore
High school only offered 3 aps to seniors (Lit, Cal, Microeconomics)
Bunch of ecâs and leadership positions
400+ Volunteer Hours at hospital
Wrote my common app essay on discovering my own definition of femininity
Accepted! (International Student)
SAT: 1340
TOEFL: 109
High School: Full IB Curriculum (English, Spanish, Film, History, Biology, TOK, Math, etc.).
GPA: 94 on the 100 scale
ECs: leadership positions, a lot of volunteering, Mandarin Chinese lessons, short-film creator, etc.
Essay: âWhy Mount Holyokeâ basically
VickiSoCal: If Mount Holyoke is where you want to go to college (and it should be), donât just give up on trying to make it work. Appeal the financial aid decision, explore loans from other sources, and search for other possible scholarships available to students in your home community and on the internet. It is the four years that will mean the most for you in life (trust me, Iâm getting ready for my 50th reunion at MHC). You will make wonderful friends among the faculty and students at Mount Holyoke who will be like your family for life. Put the financial aid situation in perspective. As I said to a young friend in the Class of 2006 a number of years ago, I could make the amount of tuition you are paying in a week of hard work by practicing my profession (my professional achievements were made possible, in part, by my education at Mount Holyoke). You will be able to pay any debt eventually. The College would not have admitted you with the award if the admissions officers did not think you could make it happen. Good luck and congratulations on being admitted with a leadership award.
My daughter got in, with workable aid. So relieved.
@dc20016 Your enthusiasm for MHC is terrific and much appreciated here and across many other threads. However, I encourage caution and compassion in second guessing a familyâs decision about what will or wonât work for them financially. This is particularly true given extreme uncertainty of several kinds right now.
As a note I am actually the parent. My daughter has several choices that are affordable where she can thrive and there are choices we might have made 2 weeks ago we cannot make now. MHC was a match for admit and a reach financially. I would love to see her there but I am not up for 6 figures of debt to do it.
I apologize if I offended anyone with my comments. I am not the one who is facing the steep four-year financial commitment represented by paying for college at Mount Holyoke. However, I think my advice to be aggressive in seeking other financial options before giving up on the opportunity to study at Mount Holyoke is sound.
Yes, there are other institutions that will provide the opportunity to earn a bachelor of arts degree. I suggest that you compare the student/faculty ratio at Mount Holyoke and that at the other school. Then consider the opportunity to do research with professors at the undergraduate level available at Mount Holyoke (such as working on research involving minerals from Mars with MHCâs Darby Dyar), the first-year seminars taught by senior professors, the opportunity to partake of the programs offered by several of the specialized centers at Mount Holyoke such as the Weissman Center for Leadership and the Miller Worley Environmental Center, the Washington Semester program and internships, the Lynk program that guarantees an internship to every student, and the study of original objects at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum that has been collecting since 1876 (it was founded during the same decade as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston). I consider many of the art objects there to be old friends because of the papers I wrote about them. Then imagine the person you might become at the end of four years at Mount Holyoke compared to you at the end of four years at the alternative institutions.
Congratulations to all who received an offer of admission to Mount Holyoke. This is a great achievement of which you should be proud. You may be amused that some of my classmates in the Class of 1970 have saved the letters offering admission that were sent in 1966 and have been sharing them online. They were highly prized then â and now.
Accepted
ACT 31
GPA 3.9 uw
Numerous AP classes
Additional online classes during school and summer
Essay expressed interest in foreign language, special ed, writing
Hosted exchange students and was an exchange student
Excellent recommendations from employer and teacher
Volunteered with children in summer at elementary school
Summer job in accounting
No sports
No music
From Wisconsin
$15K merit aid
Found out March 19 @ 7 pm approx
No likely letter
My DD got in and was offered 15k/leadership award. So proud of her! But I donât think we can swing it financially. Her 529 has taken a hit. She has received a 50% tuition merit aid offer from an instate school, so she has to consider if taking on debt is worth it.
Congratulations to all of you having been accepted! That is great!
@MSEnglishTeacher exactly the same situation as us. Proud but things are tight right now.
After hearing back from all of my schools, I committed to MHC today!
@trumpetmathgeek â Congratulations!!! Could you share how you came to this decision? My daughter also received a trustee scholarship and is deciding between MHC and Bryn Mawr. She loves both and is trying to gather info to make a decision.
My D is in a very similar boat to @Dashwoods1811âs daughter â would also love to hear your decision-process @trumpetmathgeek!
@Veryapparent â Would you be willing to share more details about your daughterâs great experiences at MHC (class of '22, I think)? Several of us are gathering information to try to make final decisions. Since we canât visit again, anything helps!
I could tell you a million reasons but my daughter would be much better at it! In fact she would be happy to talk to anyone considering Mt Holyoke. If you send me a direct message I can pass it along. She hosted a few prospective trustee scholars last year during overnight visits.
I can say she is extremely happy there and that she had 15 schools and multiple scholarships to chose from at the end of the process. She made the right choice!
@Veryapparent â Thank you!! Could you message me? Iâm too âjuniorâ to message you I think.
Hello! I am currently a senior at Mount Holyoke College and would be happy to answer any and all questions as candidly as possible. I chose Mount Holyoke from about 15 acceptances in 2016. I understand how big this decision is and would be happy to help. A few things I was involved in the last four years- Psychology major, NEXUS in journalism and media, received LYNK funding and presented at LEAP symposium, 4-year member of field hockey team, studied abroad, member of the Mount Holyoke News. Thank you!
@Dashwoods1811 @Itisatruth