Significant other make a difference in admissions?

I am pretty sure that girlfriends and boyfriends are not taken into account. However, wives and husbands are. I know some schools allow transfers for sig. others only. Hmmm... I think this parallels the whole adjunct faculty positions?

Blues

 

haha...contemplating popping the question now?

 

thats hillarious

 

I would think you actually have to be married. But I think that only applies for transfers, not for first year admissions. I think boyfriend/girlfriend/fiancee/fiance would make absolutely no difference. Anyone could say that they have a significant other at the school!

-RA

 

not necessarily true, over the past 2 years a number of young women have transferred into tufts in the second year because they had bf's (not necessarily fiancees) in the Boston area. Also, one guy in my class last year was living with his gf who was applying to Tufts and had not heard anything from them. He contacted the director of admissions several times, and finally in early January Mr. Slavin called him and told him that there had been a cancellation for the next interview day and that they would be glad to interview his girlfriend. I don't know if she got in or not but it seems that some schools DO take personal relationships into account. I'd try to find out through students at your sig. others school what the school's informal policy tends to be on this matter, since the school will probably not tell you anything.

yay, my 500th post, COOL!

 

i have heard that if you are already accepted at a school and oyu write a letter to the school you prefer and tell them about a fiance or spouse there is a better cahnce of getting in there but only if you are already accepted somewhere