Please chance me for ED at Smith College

SmithieandProud
Sun, 12 Dec 2010 00:51:27 +0000

The ED acceptance rate is a bit higher, but usually because only very interested people apply ED and those people tend to also be the ones that are generally pretty qualified to apply to Smith anyway, so a larger percentage of the applicants that apply are accepted. If you aren’t admitted ED they roll you over to RD and re-consider you for the spring. I don’t know if it means you’re less likely to be accepted, usually it means they have some concern over your application (typically grades), but they think there’s something there and they want to see more or evaluate you for longer before making a final decision.

I think your profile looks good (it’s really hard to chance people unless their profile is the absolute highest (like speaks Mandarin with a 4.5 GPA) or the lowest, so don’t take this or TD’s statement as a discouragement. You look like what Smith is generally looking for based on what you told us, so I think you have a good chance.