<p>Thanks for the words of encouragement irish... I'm going to do my best to make them see that I should be a domer next year.</p>
<p>for those of you on the waitlist, how many of you are Catholic? Just curious...</p>
<p>How exactly do wait lists work? Say I accept a scholarship and sign w/ a school, can I renig that if I get into this other school?</p>
<p>briguy070 - i don't know how the waitlists work. i have the same questions as you.</p>
<p>hello Irish - i just found out i am waitlisted. do you have any advice on how i can go about givng myself the best shot to make it? thanks for any tips...</p>
<p>I was also waitlisted. I wasn't really considering Notre Dame though. Case Western and Ohio State are my top two choices. Notre Dame was a reach school that my dad wanted me to apply to. I decided to have my name taken off the list to leave room for those who REALLY want to go there (aka everyone on this board :) ). Good luck! I hope everything works out for you guys.</p>
<p>Here is my advice for waitlisted students based upon my friends' experiences. Please forgive the nature of it, it originally was an email to a father about his daughter and I just decided to cut and paste it instead of re-write it (I have a ton of hw tonight). Hopefully it will help you though!</p>
<p>What my friends have done is just make sure they know how interested you
are, don't be shy about it. If your daughter has won any additional awards
or anything like that I would send them in. If she is getting really good
grades this semester I would let them know that and even have the teachers
write down what her grades are as of this point. The main point to remember
is honestly half of the people on the waiting list are just going to sit
there and do nothing, and that is part of the reason it is there, ND wants
to know which students truly want to be here and they do take that into
account. I would say a couple phone calls, have her send in anything that
is new that can help her chances, and pray.</p>
<p>If you really are daring (I wouldn't recommend this) you can do something
like what I did. I desperately wanted to go to ND when I applied out of
high school but I knew that I was a borderline candidate so what I did was I
called up a Cookies by Design store (they make custom cookie baskets) and I
bought the Notre Dame cookie bouquet. I had them design all of the cookies
saying "this is how badly I want to attend" and "please accept me" and then
I had them send it to admissions on a Friday afternoon. Obviously it didn't
help me get in, as I was rejected the first time around, but I have heard of
such things working at other schools. I know about five years ago there was
a girl who was waitlisted at William and Mary who stood out in front of
their admissions building with a sandwich board sign saying that she was
waitlisted and this was how badly she wanted to attend. I believe that she
was there a week, but she did get her way and got into William and Mary.</p>
<p>I don't think those drastic measures are neccesary (though talking to the
admission counselors I guess they did like the cookie idea but it could
backfire just as easily) but I just wanted to bring them up because some
people do do some of those things, myself included.</p>
<p>Anyway (sorry about my rant) I would just keep in close contact, especially
with whomever her admissions counselor is (she should know if you don't, I
know my parents and I knew ours well but it just depends on the counselor)
and maybe even ask them if there is anything that she can do. As long as
she is persistant I think she has an excellent shot. They don't put just
anyone on the waiting list, and all of those on the list have an excellent
shot if they put in a little effort.</p>
<p>Good luck, please let me know how it goes and what you decide to do no
matter the result. Also, if it doesn't work out (though I have a feeling it
will, honestly) feel free to write back if you want to talk about transfer
admissions. Good luck!</p>
<p>I'm catholic.</p>
<p>Thanks a ton irish... I will be fighting it.</p>