<p>i have been planning for a while to send chicago a letter after getting waitlisted
however, i recall someone saying that we should send application updates later since the people only start reading applications in may
so i was wondering, when do you guys think i should write to them?
in a week? two weeks? three weeks?</p>
<p>send it in around May 1/late April… they don’t start reading until after then. They have to wait for the reply date to see how many people they’ll take off the waitlist.</p>
<p>Katie is right. Definitely a good idea to send it right before they start reading again- you dont want your letter to be forgotten because you sent it too early. </p>
<p>It is very, very important that waitlisted kids send those letters (if they want to get in). I was deferred EA, and I sent a letter to my admissions counselor around mid February. I am fairly confident that the letter had a major role to play in my acceptance. I spent nearly all of January perfecting the letter, and it was one of the most passionate things I have ever written. If you want to get into Chicago from the waitlist, I suggest really taking to sculpt your letter; it is not enough to just say Chicago is your top choice. </p>
<p>This article provides some sound advice (though it is directed towards deferred students, I think some of it can still apply to waitlisted kids) [You</a> Got Deferred. Now What? - The Choice Blog - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/defer/]You”>You Got Deferred. Now What? - The New York Times)</p>
<p>Yeah I was waitlisted at UChicago and sent my letter on April 30th, I recieved my admission on May 6th and I´m sure the letter was a deciding factor.</p>
<p>Definitely send in a letter to show your interest. And don’t write a generic one or one that screams out loud that you’re desperate (of course, you still want to show them that you really want to go if Chicago is truly your first-choice school). </p>
<p>I typed up a letter in mid-January after I was waitlisted and I typed up another (albeit much shorter letter) the second time I was waitlisted. Showing interest definitely helps. </p>
<p>But what sucked is that they let me in so late that I had already had orientation at Michigan…</p>