<p>Exeter has admitted people off the wait list two weeks ago, if they were f/a applicants I have no clue</p>
<p>I was recently admitted off of the waitlist and was awarded FA at Andover. Do not lose hope!</p>
<p>Congrats! Do you have any hooks like an athlete or from the midwest?</p>
<p>I can’t, because the parents are on the board and I think it’s their story to tell. But as with the above, some larger schools and some smaller schools. </p>
<p>Remember what I said last year - August 1st is when many parents realize they can’t swing tuition and incidentals. Many people interpret that as being full pays but it’s also families on partial FA. most families getting FA are NOT getting full FA so the balance plus incidentals and travel can still be a huge hurdle to leap. Also, some FA kids on waitling lists are getting spots and therefore are declining their previous placements.</p>
<p>There’s hope - small - but it’s there! Good luck to all of you!</p>
<p>Now that the tuition deadline is past, any stories with happy ending?</p>
<p>Since I started this thread myself (ages ago), I guess it’s time for me to speak up.</p>
<p>My son was one of those FA candidates mentioned by Exie who received a surprise offer in mid-July. It was an offer for FULL FA . . . and it came out of the blue with no advance warning whatsoever!</p>
<p>I will not disclose the name of the school - partly because I don’t want them to get a rush of desperate phone calls and partly because I prefer to keep my own identity (and thus my son’s) confidential. Suffice it to say that it was a small school, with limited funds, that had a previously admitted family bow out during the summer (due to personal issues, as I understand it, and not a competing offer).</p>
<p>So, I guess it’s true that miracles can happen . . . even for candidates needing significant FA! So, for those still waiting . . . don’t lose hope!!!</p>
<p>Congrats DodgersMom!!!</p>
<p>That’s really exciting for your son! Just goes to show.</p>
<p>Will schools send out a confirmation that they will not be taking anyone off the waitlist at this point?</p>
<p>I was accepted to Choate off the waitlist. That was not a happy ending though, but rather the beginning of a four-year nightmare.</p>
<p>@Glanton-Okay, this is ridiculous. You cannot give two unsubstantiated statements and expect us all to swoon in horror. Please elaborate-I’d expect that during your four-year “nightmare” at Choate, they would’ve taught you how to support your claims in a persuasive essay.</p>
<p>Well, anyways. I think if you read some of my posts (in this thread, maybe?), you will realize that I too have gotten off a waitlist, quite a while ago! I wish everyone else still on a WL good luck!</p>
<p>@circlemidnight-what school? The school I was waitlisted at is overenrolled… 
so that means minimal chance for next year too! yay. <em>sarcasm</em></p>
<p>The same school that Glanton attended. Whoopee!</p>
<p>circlemidnight, my statement is an opinion backed by not only my status as an alumnus, but also my extra decade on this planet. I do not require lectures from those who had not even started Kindergarten at the time I was moving into Memorial Hall. </p>
<p>I did not like Choate because I found many of the students to be noxious, tacky-bourgeois noveau riche, many of the teachers to be uninspired, and many (actually all) of the advisors to be totally uninvolved and apathetic. If it makes you feel better, I think most people do not hate, or even dislike Choate the way I do, although I knew several that despised it even more.</p>
<p>Well, Glanton, then perhaps you’d prefer a lecture from someone who is old enough to be your grandparent.</p>
<p>If you have what you believe to be a legitimate complaint about a prep school you attended, please feel free to voice it in this forum . . . although this particular thread is probably not the appropriate place! But be prepared to set forth some kind of rational basis for your complaint, perhaps illustrated by concrete examples, and to defend your views by something other than a string of convenient adjectives.</p>
<p>The would-be prep school students who visit this forum want to know both the good and the bad about the schools they’re considering applying to. The statement that attending School X was a “nightmare” provides no useful information whatsoever. You had an unhappy time at school . . . you’re not alone. But unless you can explain why you think that the problems you experienced a decade ago are likely to impact the students who are applying to the school today, there’s not much point to any of us listening to you.</p>
<p>Please take your complaints to one of the many Choate-specific threads on this forum and vent to your heart’s content . . . but don’t be surprised if your emotions-without-examples are not well received.</p>
<p>Bump to 2012</p>
<p>I think this is a good thread to make some general comments about waitlists. As many people have noticed, the yield of many BS - especially of the top schools - is high in recent years. As a result, it is not easy to be moved up from the waitlist. WL’s of Andover, Deerfield, Groton and SPS are particularly ‘unforgiving’ (BUT, there’s a catch - sometimes in July or even August, they could turn to WL as some families “bailed out” last minute. And yes they do offer FA even then.). I’ve seen Exeter, Choate and Hotchkiss WL’s moving more often however slightly on or prior to April 10. I guess this is not very helpful info but just to say what I have observed over time.</p>
<p>Thank you so much. I’m on Exeter/Hotchkiss waitlists, and I’m glad to see there’s just a bit of hope. Little, but there. :)</p>
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<p>The bail-out phenomenon comes with cash. Specifically, any full pay will have paid not less than 1/2 of the tuition by June (and perhaps more by August), so if they bail, then the school actually has that money in the bank to play with if they admit another full pay. That is, the money forfeited by the former student can be used to supplement a student on need and bring them in. Depends of course on whether the school had counted on the full full pay for its own budget, but the schools in August are not without cash to work with.</p>
<p>bumpp…!</p>