<p>Seems rational to select Andover as they are offering such a generous financial aid pkg: 100% tuition, R/T airfare for all breaks, a monthly stipend for her spending money, summer program tuition paid, books, fees + laptop. Who in their right mind could turn that down??? You really hit the jackpot!!!</p>
<p>With all that aid, your budget for family ski vacations in Jackson Hole won’t be adversely impacted. I regret my stupidity in not applying for FA when my son went thru the application process-- we’ve now had to cut back on skiing in Aspen.</p>
<p>For those who might be taken aback or confused by GMT’s flippant response, GMT apparently figured out that bshopeful2013 is none other than the infamous URMtop5 who changed user name. Bshopeful’s posts are rather strange as they alternate seeming to come from the parent and child but my guess is that the posts are all from the parent.</p>
<p>I will let those curious enough, peruse URM’s old posts. The user posts under both user names leave me wondering. The pieces just don’t fit together.</p>
<p>My advice to ALL who read cc forums is to take it with a grain of salt. You have no way of knowing what’s true, what’s hype, and what important details may have been left out.</p>
<p>For the past 8 years there have been a record number of applications to most boarding schools. This year is no different. Yields have been so high to a point that acceptances have been reduced so not to run out of beds and if need be resort to the over stocked waiting list. But please remember, the admission teams have built acceptance rejections into their equations. If their prognosis is correct then they will not utilize their wait list. They are very good at what they do, in fact it’s astonishing they’re so accurate you wonder how they do it… Come April 10th, the schools will learn how they did. They do their best to wrap this up sooner rather than later and move on. Exie’s #15 was spot on and I’m just basically repeating in part but with more of a discouraging tone. Thinking positive is a good thing but be realistic too.</p>
<p>Exeter
11th grade
Male
We spoke only once with the school and we were told that they did take kids from the WL last year. He said that they need a few days to reconvene after April 10th and gave April 15th and after as the date. He said they can accept kids all the way up until the day before school starts, but mid/late April and May seem to be the most likely months (to me)if anyone gets an offer. We will not wait until August. My question is …what is the “normal” response to a wait list? Do most people call the school? Several times or just once? What more do you say, I feel they have everything they need to know about us already? So if you are calling and talking to the school, what are you saying? Is it advisable, at this point near to April 10 to give another call and try to speak with someone on the 11th grade committee? Then what do we say, “we want in…we really want in…just like every other kid on the WL”. I guess what I’m trying to say, is I feel like there is nothing more to be done but just see if we get notified…and see the luck of the draw…BUT I would like to know if someone thinks being more proactive is the way…
I wish all of you good luck for you or your kids!</p>
<p>Repeated calls or letters will just make you a pest. I think the conventional wisdom is that one communication to the school (beyond just the “yes, please put me on the waitlist”) would suffice. So you might have your son do a letter or email to the school updating them with any new grades or accomplishments and reiterating (in specific terms) why he wants to attend the school. Beyond that, I think the schools assume that if you kept your name on the waitlist, your kid really, really wants to go there, and so there’s no real point in continuing to tell them that. If a school does decide to take someone off the WL, the choice on who is going to be much more about picking the candidate who fits the needed demographic (boy vs. girl, domestic vs. int’l, athlete or musician or whatever) than about who proved during the WL period that they were really dying to go to the school.</p>
<p>Unfortunately there is no one way to deal with wait lists. I can verify that one is much better off exclaiming extreme thanks for being accepted on the wait list and will anxiously await a favorable reply as opposed to he or she really doesn’t belong on the wait list as he/she was accepted elsewhere and I assume my child is at the top of the list and so forth. They are building a class, student by student, like a picture puzzle. I honestly don’t know if it is good to call now, later or at all. Plans change, jobs lost, moves made, things happen, there is a whole host of issues that can prompt a school to go to it’s wait list after they thought the puzzle was complete. Sometimes there are pieces left over after the puzzle is complete. Pardon the analogy, I now those on the wait lists aren’t pieces of a puzzle. @ Lavaux5 I’m sorry this not what you want to hear but getting wait listed to Exeter for the 11th grade is a real accomplishment, to get accepted for 11th really is a tough nut to crack. I don’t have anything witty to add just old school aphorism, chin up, carry on.</p>
<p>I was waitlisted at seven schools:
Hotchkiss (MY FIRST CHOICE)
Exeter
Choate
Groton
Deerfield
Loomis Chaffee
Taft </p>
<p>9th grade female!</p>
<p>I got off of the waiting list at Loomis Chaffee. So now my choices are Pomfret and Loomis Chaffee. I think I’m leaning to Loomis, does anyone have any thoughts?</p>
<p>Also, should I stay on the waiting list at Taft? I don’t know if I would rather go to Taft than Loomis, any thoughts? </p>
<p>If you have any, I would greatly appreciate it!</p>