<p>did anyone here get out of waitlist and get accepted?</p>
<p>I didn't but my blockmate did. I think she found out in June.</p>
<p>I did last year. I found out at the end of May.</p>
<p>how did you guys get out of the waitlist?</p>
<p>what did you guys do other than just sending in the RSVP?</p>
<p>yes!!! TELL US!! lol</p>
<p>bumpity bump</p>
<p>I was wondering the same thing. What do we need to do to get out of the waitlist? And also, did Harvard recruit you guys for some club or activity? Should we go visit our admissions officer and ask for suggestions? Or just wait and do nothing since chances of being unwaitlisted are slim?</p>
<p>bump........</p>
<p>I remember when Harvard Hopeful made it last year. In addition to HH making the "Z-list", I think there were five (5) CC posters who made it in off the WL - which is an amazing statistic in that there were only 25 or so total taken off the WL for the Class of 2009!</p>
<p>about that infamous "z list":</p>
<p>"Every university has a financial imperative to give preference to children of alumni, but college counselors and other Ivy League admissions officers say Harvards Z-list could not succeed at smaller or less popular institution.</p>
<p>Other top colleges have special admissions programs in which applicants are asked to take time off or enroll elsewhere and then transfer, but no other Ivy requires students to take a year off and gets them to come in such high proportionsa testament to the Colleges perennial superiority in admissions."</p>
<p>i sincerely doubt that the other ivies envy harvard its "de facto special admissions program" for legacies. any legacies truly worthy of admission at those places would simply be admitted the first time around, and not shepherded through a back door later.</p>
<p>Look, I was admitted last year by the z-list - I'm not a legacy at all, nor do I fit Mr. Podolsky's theorized criteria.</p>
<p>... with no idea what he's talking about.</p>
<p>No college in the United States of America has been as devoted to the concept of the "legacy admit" as Princeton - at least during the Hargadon Era when the concept of the "Princeton Type" was shorthand for deference to legacies inter alia.</p>
<p>We will now have to watch with interest to see whether Princeton limits the legacy advantage in order to make room for more of what the incumbent feminocracy refers to as "the green-haired people."</p>
<p>policymaker, what did you do to get off the waitlist into the z?</p>
<p>The Z-List seems to be a good policy to me. PArt of me wishes I could be "forced"/"coerced" to take a year off before attending. I'm sure it is very beneficial for those students and there's nothing wrong with it.</p>
<p>ah, byerly, fighting perceived peevish sniping with actual peevish sniping. the truth is, as the man well knows, that the legacy percentages at H, Y, and P almost always come in within a point of one another - lately in the very low double digits. princeton has never shown substantially greater "deference" to legacies than have its neighbors to the north - not even in the hargadon era (which is, he realizes, now several years in princeton's rear view mirror). even in that era, princeton never had anything resembling harvard's "z list." from the initial expos</p>
<p>wait.... so if you get off the waitlist you have to take a year off before attending??? is that the same with every school or just harvard?</p>
<p>no, this is for harvard "z listees" only. not waitlist admits.</p>
<p>Your characterization of the "Z list" is silly and misleading. </p>
<p>I don't know what you think you are accomplishing. </p>
<p>The "Z-list" is for people admitted subject to the requirement that they take a year off to mature further. The decision to make such conditional admission can ba based on many factors. As other posters have noted, it seems to be a very sensible practice.</p>