<p>I was curious if there were any rumblings or anything going on...I know as revisitis wind down, people are making decisions.</p>
<p>My fingers crossed for everyone, and hoping there have been some "ah hah" moments as you examine old strategies as you develop new plans and options.</p>
<p>sorry for my poor editing skills above. :(</p>
<p>I was waitlisted at Taft, and they won’t be letting anyone of the waitlist, which is fine by me, because it wasn’t my first choice… Hotchkiss won’t know for a couple more weeks… and waiting on loomis but seems like i will be going to nmh :D</p>
<p>yankeefan, did Taft already notify the waitlisters?</p>
<p>Why weeks for Hotchkiss?</p>
<p>@yankeefan123, I was e-mailed by Taft asking me if I could attend w/o FA… I had to say no and they said they would talk to my mom next week when they know exactly what’s going on. They did mention that they weren’t sure if there were even going to be any spots, but I’m fairly sure they plan on taking some people of the waiting list… I could be wrong, though.</p>
<p>And I’ve gotten off one FA waiting list and another waiting list!</p>
<p>Linda S said that she knew of someone who got off the SPS waitlist. (<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-admissions/1112957-waitlist-4.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-admissions/1112957-waitlist-4.html</a> , post 50)</p>
<p>I have heard from one school that they are just beginning to see if they can pull people off the waitlist. I won’t divulge the name of the school, but it is very well-known and very often mentioned on this site.</p>
<p>Taft said about a week ago over e-mail that they weren’t sure if tehey were going to take anyone of the waitlist…</p>
<p>Cookbookmom got a call on 4/9/11 that they were picked off Taft waitlist! Great news!! See Waitlist thread.</p>
<p>Concord Academy called for our son this afternoon… very happy family here…</p>
<p>YEA mamakiwi! I am so happy for your family! Congratulations and good luck for a great future.</p>
<p>That’s it??? Where’s the predicted WL movement for this year?</p>
<p>No phones ringing in our house.</p>
<p>Oh, I’m so sorry neato…</p>
<p>It’s OK. I guess it just wasn’t meant to be. I just don’t think I can set her up again next year, not unless I can get an idea of what it would take to make her fundable. What I mean by that is that I don’t have any reason to believe that anything would be different next year and it’s just too painful to watch her being told that she’s great, but only great enough to be the understudy, by school after school after school after school after school. I don’t think anyone could go through that without starting to think there was something wrong with them, not when practically every school comes to the same conclusion. The answers that I have gotten have to do with things that she has no control over and cannot “improve for next year.” It’s heartbreaking. So, if it doesn’t work out, she can make the most of what she has locally, supplementing with CTY as much as I can afford, until she is old enough to apply to an early entrance program - which might be the better option for her after all. </p>
<p>I do appreciate everyone’s concern and positive thoughts and I’m sorry that I tend to be so cynical. I hope you all are right and that she will get a call. Maybe one of these schools will call her if their first choice kids don’t enroll. Who knows? She’s a very special kid and is a lot of fun to be around -sharp as a tack and funny. It won’t hurt my feelings to have her around another year; but it’s never been about what I wanted.</p>
<p>Sheesh - ye of little faith!</p>
<p>I have no idea of the timeframe involved in pulling a full pay kid off the waitlist, but I suspect that it’s a much more time consuming process for financial aid applicants. Especially this year, when many of the families who’ve received FA grants this year are already back at the AO’s door begging for more. It seems the AOs have a lot of calculating to do before they’ll know whether they’ll be able to make more offers. Maybe I’m wrong, but I think it’s still early . . .</p>
<p>Hi Neato - feel terrible about what you and she are going throught right now and hope you get a happy call. </p>
<p>I’m assuming that you did not work with an educational consultant either because of philosophy or funds. But it might actually be a good idea, if you can afford it, to engage someone who could help give you insight into this year (someone who knows some of the schools to which you applied well enough to check in and make sure there is not some correctable issue/defect in the application of which you were unaware. If it doesn’t work out for this year, and I TOTALLY hope it does, then having an educational consultant along for the ride next year may improve your daughter’s chances.</p>
<p>Last year my daughter was waitlisted at all 3 of the schools she applied to. We had good relationships with 2 of the 3 admissions officers and I called and asked them what would make her go from the “we love you but not as much as others” list to the “accepted” list. Same answers as Neato, they said she was a great applicant and they honestly had no specific feedback. I asked very specific questions - was it her SSAT’s (low 80’s) - no, they were fine. Was it her recommendations (since obviously we had not seen them) - no, they were stellar (their words, not mine).
I specifically asked - what can she do to move from the waitlist to accept list next year. They couldn’t tell me.<br>
One school told me it was FA related (although they say they accept you even if they can’t fund you and this year she was accepted and placed on the FA wait list there, so not really sure about that answer).<br>
The other just said how it was such a highly competitive year, blah blah blah. She was accepted there this year.</p>
<p>I think honestly, it is very much like the NPR piece about Amherst College - at some point when they narrow it down as far as they can - it’s almost a lottery as to who gets in and who gets on the WL.</p>
<p>Neato - don’t give up hope.</p>
<p>I find this board maddening in the posts that think that just because April 10th came and went that the game is over. What? Schools are just now processing deposits and it will take a few weeks to know - and even then there’s the issue of returning parents whose contracts are due in May.</p>
<p>It’s not over until it’s over.</p>