My chances at Smith College?

Akqj10
Sun, 18 Mar 2018 14:14:19 +0000

CrewDad, Portray to us during the information session for Smith. My daughter is happy where she goes to college, so I have not ax to grind, we could not be happier. But with her stats, we were a little surprised she got wait listed at Skidmore for example with 1450 SAT. So I go on this site to inform others of our experience so others may learn. I could almost guarantee that if we were were full pay, her waitlist at Skidmore would have been an acceptance ( the admissions guy pretty much told me so ). Maybe for Kenyon and Colby, and possibly Smith as well where she got waitlisted.

Hamilton, where she also got wail listed seemed pretty upfront to us. They list some acceptance rates for SAT ranges on their website, and in the information session they were pretty information as far as athletes, URM, geography diversity and first generation, we knew it would be tough. But I didn’t know the January admits were need aware. Learn something new every day.

I would prefer schools just be more honest about how much needing financial aid affects admission, for us Colby and Skidmore pretty much lied to us at the info session. When I learned Colby has more students from the top 1% than the bottom 60% per family income, I was pretty surprised, and I thought I did my homework. At Skidmore my daughters SAT were in the top 10% or so for attending students, at the info session they told us they only look at financial aid for students on the margins.

Lafayette, while looking for donations, said they have to decline 150 to 250 qualified applicants a year because they could not meet their financial needs, so this gives some good information on the reality.