<p>I am waitlisted for milton</p>
<p>would anyone suggest that I send them anything (letter, grades, etc)?</p>
<p>How did you find out your Milton decision roses&clovers?</p>
<p>I got it in the mail</p>
<p>ok I was waitlisted at brooks. This was my first choice so am still prob going to try and get in there. Im going to call the admissionsoffice in a few days and ask about the situation and what I need to do, and also to tell them that I really want to go there. Would this be a good idea, or should I just not bother them and wait?</p>
<p>Roses and clovers, were you accepted anywhere else? Will you need FA at Milton?
You can send Milton a letter telling them that Milton is your number one choice, send along your most recent transcript. Tell them how you will contribute to their community. If you mean it, tell them that you will attend Milton if you get off of the waitlist.
The waiting to get off a waitlist is very hard. If you have other choices, I would recommend that you put Milton behind you and move on to your other choice. First of all you do not get to go to the revisit day with the accepted students. It can take months until you hear one way or the other. And, mostly, the experience on CC has seen very little movement from the waitlist. In the past three years I only remember 2 students moving to the accepted list - redfern and olivia.
With whatever you decide, good luck to you.</p>
<p>Okay, well, I was waitlisted at Lawrenceville. I got accepted to Peddie. I am not sure about Pennington. I love Peddie and want to enroll there. But, I don't want to throw away my application to Lawrenceville. I feel like when I click that button saying that I want to be taken off of the waiting list all of my hard work will be going down the toilet. Ughh!</p>
<p>Hey AGSAABS,</p>
<p>I got waitlisted at Peddie. Do you have any suggestion for me ?</p>
<p>I'm not sure. Maybe you could ask someone who got waitlisted and then accepted last year what to do. (Like sending in grades, recommendations, and other stuff). Good luck!</p>
<p>why do you think I got waitlisted ?</p>
<p>Wow, it seems they waitlisted a lot of peopel for SPS... i was waitlisted as well.</p>
<p>I don't know. It's hard to tell with admissions sometimes.</p>
<p>Do you still have any acceptance ?</p>
<p>Going around this place, feels like I'm the only that got total rejection from Exeter. Got waitlisted at Deerfield. Wow I suck -_-
But seriously I think I should call and ask for my position on the waitlist? (First Quarter, Second Quarter, Bottom Half?)</p>
<p>i got waitlisted at groton!!!!! :( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(
but accepted at exeter!!!!!!! :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
but i really like groton. should i call... or send a note... or an email? call?</p>
<p>I have seen a lot of kids get off the wait list... including my daughter! </p>
<p>A few years ago a friend of mine's son was accepted pretty much everywhere but Deerfield. He called admissions and said.. he's into Exeter, Choate etc. but he really wanted Deerfield... shortly thereafter he got a call saying he had 24 hours to decide, and he went. He was Cum Laude and did really well- my understanding the only one they took that year.</p>
<p>Last year I knew several "sibling legacies" waitlisted at Taft. They all got in the following months.</p>
<p>My daughter was waitlisted at Deerfield and Taft and into Westy... told Taft they were number 1, and got off the wait list. When we called Deerfield was disappointed.</p>
<p>Another boy was waitlisted at Hotchkiss and a few others, got off wait list at Choate because bugged them and told them they were #1. Then low and behold he cleared the Hotchkiss waitlist too early in summer (forgot to take his name off it)... he still went to Choate.</p>
<p>If you got into good places but not your first choice, call and let them know. They all know most kids wait listed are extremely well qualified. If they are over subscribed, not much you can do... but if you are on a few wait lists, I bet you can get off. Also if anything new good happens, let them know, keep them up with you. If one is first choice, not a big deal.</p>
<p>Just know you may have to send in deposit and it may not happen until before summer, but if you are patient, it just might work out better then expected.</p>
<p>Just know these schools don't really know what the yields will look like, so it is a really tricky game for them. One thing I don't know is how the aid will be handled (I believe at the well endowed schools, it will still be quite good).</p>
<p>Do go to the revisit days, and you may find that the some of the other options were better fits then you imagined. I felt we didn't really know much until after the revisit days, and got to spend more time on campus and ask difficult questions... sometimes the schools do know better, and before you wish for what you didn't get, take a hard look at what you did... it might be more perfect then you thought.</p>
<p>that was soooooooooo helpful cllgemom. i got watlisted at 3 and am still waiting for my #1 andover, but now i know what to do. thx a million. my mom thanks you too!!!</p>
<p>I agree that it is possible to get off a wait list, and it does happen to some people, but it really isn't the norm. They usually W-L about twice as many people as they accept. </p>
<p>In May, once the school gets their deposits, they can decide if they need to take anyone off the wait list. If they are low on boys, they will look for a boy; low on musicians, they will look for that. Or if they are full, they won't take anyone. Sometimes, as late as July or August, a student who deposited will decide not to enroll, or an old student will decide not to come back. They will need to fill that spot, so they will go to the wait list then too. Some of it is luck, as you usually have to be the same gender as the one who changed his/her mind, due to dorm space.</p>
<p>But as the people above said, keep in touch with the office if you want to go there. and if you can truly say you will attend if taken off the list, you should do that. that's my advice. good luck to everyone on the wait list!</p>
<p>I have some experience with waitlist, as both my son and daughter were waitlisted at schools they applied to. Son was happy where he got in, so waitlist wasn't much of an issue. Daughter really wanted to go at school she was waitlisted at and did eventually get in (so there is hope). My suggestion is that if you were waitlisted at a school you would go to if they offered you a position, contact the admissions office, tell them how much you love the school and ask them to keep you on the list. If you're most recent grades improved over what they have, if you won any additional honors or awards since applying, let them know. Then keep in contact with the admissions office and follow-up periodically (this does not mean every day, or even every week). Tell them their school is your first choice and you will absolutely, positively go if they offer you a place. Then hang in there as long as you can. (This may become difficult if you also got into other schools and you have a deadline to get back to them, make a commitment, pay a deposit, etc., but the longer you are able to wait, the greater your chances).</p>
<p>Do not call up the admission office, or alumni interviewer and ask "why didn't I get in?". The alumni interviewer won't know, and the admissions office will not appreciate you demanding that they justify their decision to you.</p>
<p>Finally, you need to be realistic about your chances. Most schools waitlist a bunch of people, and depending on the year and how good their yield is, may not take anyone off the waitlist, so you need to accept that it is a longshot.</p>
<p>ugg. what school was that, just so i know if i even have a CHANCE?</p>
<p>waitlisted at andover
in at deerfield
rejected at exeter</p>