<p>If it worked for you the second time, what did do differently? Thanks.</p>
<p>This would be helpful for me too!
Answers, anyone? :]
Thanks!</p>
<p>I know of many people that have gotten waitlisted, waited a year, and then got accepted the following year.</p>
<p>Hi! The school where this worked out for me is by no means a first or a second tier, but I’d be glad to share my story with you: Last year I applied to Emma Willard School, got in but waitlisted for FA. My family could not afford to full pay AT ALL so I talked to the FA director and from what I heard, there was not much hope for me. Then I decided to withdraw myself from the FA pool to focus on my application for the next year, told the FA director of my intention to reapply and stuff. As posted earlier on this thread, I sent in quite a lot of supplements about my strengths and hobbies this year (I had like nothing last year) because they said it would help give a clearer picture of you. To my surprise I was awarded the generous Davis Scholarship (which will cover my education for two years at Emma and 4 years in college as well). I guess it works because I did a better job this year AND showed my strong interest in the school. Emma was my first choice among the schools I was accepted at so I have no regrets going. 
Hope it helps.</p>
<p>Last year I was waitlisted at Exeter. This year I was waitlisted at Exeter. Then Exeter phoned me to tell me I was accepted.</p>
<p>As to success, the only thing you really can do in such a period of time (1 year) is to improve SSAT score, get better grades, better teacher recommendations (very important in my opinion) and develop some interests that you might be able to pursue at the school you wish to reapply to.</p>
<p>Yes,this can happen. I know people who were waitlisted one year and accepted another. (I haven’t heard of rejected/accepted, except for day schools that are realistic and have very small wait lists.) Have you spoken to the school to find out more about their decision regarding their child. Any conversation can be another chance to express his or her intererest in the school.</p>
<p>binhnguyen2907: wow, congrats on the davis scholarship - it covers college too? I have never heard of that type of prep school scholarship- that’s wonderful!
Good luck at your first choice next year!</p>
<p>Davis family philanthropy will award grants of up to $20,000 per student, per year based on demonstrated need. Students will be recruited to enroll in the 10th, 11th, and 12th grades as well as during the postgraduate year. Upon graduation, Davis Scholars will be eligible for continued scholarship support should they matriculate at any of the 85 approved Davis United World Scholars colleges and universities in the United States.</p>
<p>Well I don’t know if this really counts but I was waitlisted at hotchkiss and andover last year and I reapplied again his year and I got waitlisted again. But I added Exeter to the schools I was applying to and I got in. I really didn’t do anything different this time except my ssat score. I guess the moral of the story is to look forntue school that dits you best because I didn’t realize how similar Exeter was to me until this year.</p>
<p>The Davis Scholarship program is a pilot program supporting 5 schools currently: Phillips Academy Andover, Westminster School, The Taft School, The Lawrenceville School and Emma Willard School.
waterester, where did you get the figure of $20,000 from? I remember they said ‘up to full tuition depends on the family’s needs’ on Emma Willard website (my FA package was full aid itself).
hotchkissjin, I heard you were accepted off the waitlist at Andover and Hotchkiss! :)</p>
<p>That was from the Andover website. I guess it is either out-of-date info or differs from school to school (?). Congratulations!</p>
<p>Edit: binhnguyen2907, if I understand this correctly, up to $20,000 of your aid comes from the Davis scholarship fund and the rest is from the school. It is said (Davis United World College Scholars Program) that the scholarship also provides up to $10,000 annually for 4 years of college.</p>
<p>waterester: Thanks a lot for the clarification. I thought I got that as well. But I remember reading somewhere the 5 colleges: Colby, College of the Atlantic, Princeton, Middlebury and Wellesley - have been providing the most generous aid packages to Davis Scholars all over the world compared to the other Davis institutions, up to full aid. So this means at those 5 it’s still $10,000 from the Davis Charitable Fund and the rest from the schools themselves?</p>
<p>Not sure. I was trying to put in a link in my previous post but failed. You can google search “Davis United World College Scholars Program”. Maybe you can find something more.</p>
<p>Sometimes, if you are attending a pre-prep that goes through 9th grade, the BS and pre-prep may decide for their own reasons that you will not be moving on to 9th at the new school.</p>
<p>Thank you all for sharing your stories. </p>
<p>It seems to me that one can move up from waitlisted to accepted, or from rejected to waitlisted, but NO jump from rejected to accepted at second try.</p>