<p>Better odds, though, than at SPS or Deerfield, each of which have 700+ students on the WL.</p>
<p>@soxmom: I am not trying to funny, but what is the point of waitlisting 700 kids? Even if ALL accepted students decide not to enroll, surely that is way more than would fill those spots? Waitlists should be for kids that really have a chance of being accepted. Anything more than that (number wise) and it says to be that the AdComms put the kids on the list so they didn’t have to say “no”. But getting a kid’s hopes up when they only have a 1 in 700 chance is not that great either. I think I would rather hear that “no” so we could move on. I say this as someone who is not in this position, but … 700! That sounds excessive. Maybe there are good reasons?</p>
<p>@london203 These are the only things I could think of:
- Schools know not everyone will stay on the waitlist. (Even though a lot still do!)
- They want every type of person, so if a debater doesn’t enroll, they can fill that space with another debater and so on.</p>
<p>:confused:</p>
<p>My own belief is that they put kids on the WL because they think it’s easier than saying “no” unless the kid is clearly not qualified. The schools, of course, would not say that. They would tell you it’s so that they have ample choices if they do need to take someone off the waitlist, and that functionally they’re looking at different “buckets” of kids (day vs. boarding, international vs. US, boy vs. girl, all different grades, musicians vs. athletes vs. math/science vs. arts/drama, etc). I’m not buying it, given that in a “good” year these schools might take 2 kids off the list. Seems like you could narrow it down a lot more than 700-800 kids. But I guess that would take work, so in some sense, it’s just easier to put them all on the WL.</p>
<p>Andover told me that they have ~150 (okay, now ~149 :)) for 9th grade girls on WL. So if you add up, it’s more likely ~400 total. I think there’s a bit of hyperbole from some of admission offices. Since Andover is one of the largest schools, there aren’t likely that many schools that’ll top that number.</p>
<p>Having written the above post, 1-2 out of 149 doesn’t seem like such a great odd either.</p>
<p>I think it’s more likely to be admitted than taken off a waitlist at most schools.</p>
<p>700! thats crazy. Loomis has around 90 all together.</p>
<p>@soxmom how did u get that number? It does not seem accurate.</p>
<p>All I can say is that I know it to be accurate. 750, to be more precise.</p>
<p>Not all WL’s are created equal. In college admissions, the relative size of the WL pool can vary greatly from school to school. I would not be surprised if the same holds true for prep schools.
[Waiting</a> Lists Have Plenty of Company - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/waiting-list-2011/]Waiting”>Waiting Lists Have Plenty of Company - The New York Times)</p>
<p>At Boston U the WL pool is half the class size, while at Carnegie Mellon the WL pool is almost 4X larger than the class size.</p>
<p>8th grade male
Here are my stats… Chances of getting of WL.</p>
<p>85% percentile on SSAT
Straight A’s in all advanced classes at an already advanced public school
Took honors Latin
Now taking Spanish at my new International school in the Cayman Islands
State Rugby Champ
Nationally Ranked debater
Pretty sociable and a people person
Am now learning Tenor Sax
Go to an International school in the Cayman Islands
Have a rec who was a former Exonian who is now a CEO of a big company (to be left unnamed :P)</p>
<p>Wait listed at Deerfield, Andover, Exeter
What are my chances of getting of the WL?</p>
<p>P.S. My recommender called Exeter after my wait list decision and ACTUALLY talked to the 9th grade admissions officer…</p>
<p>Thoughts?</p>
<p>does anyone know the acceptance rate from waitlist of gladchemms schools?</p>
<p>Wait-listed at Milton, called my admissions officer and he told me that there were 10 male 10th grade boarders on the wait list, and that in the last 2 years only 1 person had been taken off of the list.</p>
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I am a boy and in 8th grade. I am one the waiting list for St. Paul’s School.</p>
<p>It’s weird that April 10 isn’t killing me like March 10 was. And it’s strange to think almost a month has gone by.</p>
<p>This will hopefully be good news for some of you. My daughter was accepted into 5 schools schools. She has narrowed it down to two schools… SPS and Andover.</p>
<p>I will be contacting Deerfield, Exeter, and Loomis on Monday to thank them for accepting her, but she has chosen to attend a different school.</p>
<p>She has not yet chosen between SPS and Andover, and probably will not make the decision until April 10.</p>
<p>So, perhaps this is good news for someone on the Deerfield, Exeter, or Loomis waitlist.</p>
<p>A few things about her that perhaps they will be looking to replace…
Accepted as repeat 10th grader
Art- Paint and Draw, numerous national awards. Very passionate and advanced.
Likely Varsity 2 sport athlete at all 3 schools- Volleyball and Softball
Hispanic
close to full Financial Aid offered.</p>
<p>A few notes about all three of the schools she is declining. We absolutely LOVE Exeter’s volleyball coach. We absolutely LOVE Deerfield’s Visual Arts Head, and we really like Loomis’ Softbally coach. So this was a very difficult decision as there are a lot of things she really likes about all 5 schools. We simply could not revisit so many schools and she narrowed it down to the two she felt like she would fit in the best at. She has not chosen between Andover and St. Paul’s School. She loves them both an awful lot. I do not think she can make a bad choice.</p>
<p>Good luck to those on the wait list! I hope this gets a few of yall in, and the great news is it frees up an awful lot of Financial Aid at all 3 schools.</p>
<p>How are applicants informed if they are off the waitlist? Is it by phone or email?</p>
<p>@bshopeful2013, isn’t your daughter only part hispanic? How do schools draw the line for classifying URM status?</p>
<p>Daughter’s mother is 100% hispanic and doesn’t speak English, so that would make my daughter 1/2 hispanic. I assume the not speaking English doesn’t have anything to do with whether someone is URM, but being raised by a single mother that doesn’t speak English probably carries more weight than a URM status anyhow.</p>
<p>I’m not sure how boarding schools consider URM. I’m pretty sure colleges consider URM as 1/4 hispanic.</p>