Smith College is an all-women’s college in Northampton, MA. It has about 2,500 undergraduates and is a part of the five-college consortium: Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Smith. If you go to school at one of the colleges within the consortium, you can take classes relatively freely throughout all five.
How to Write the Swarthmore Supplement
While we’d never suggest not applying to a school solely based on their acceptance rate, we have to address the . Swarthmore had a 10% acceptance rate, meaning you will get rejected 9 times out of 10. Swarthmore does a great job of outlining their admissions process and we offer a more detailed explanation of the overall admissions process . It’s important that you understand the statistics--not to scare you, but so that you understand why your Swarthmore supplement is so important.
How to Write the Dartmouth Supplement
Continuing our series, this time we’re tackling the Dartmouth supplement. The Dartmouth College supplement consists of two additional short writing responses. The biggest challenge is the length of the writing responses--the first response is 100 words or less, and the second is 250-300 words. For both, we encourage our students to repeat and embody our mantra of: “think small and tell a story.” We break down every prompt for you below.