<p>Here is another link to an interesting article about waitlist and yield stats</p>
<p>[How</a> ‘yield’ figures into the admissions equation - Washington DC College admissions | Examiner.com](<a href=“http://www.examiner.com/college-admissions-in-washington-dc/how-yield-figures-into-the-admissions-equation]How”>http://www.examiner.com/college-admissions-in-washington-dc/how-yield-figures-into-the-admissions-equation)</p>
<p>Thanks, AvonDad! Welcome to the thread. Has your S committed to any waitlists? </p>
<p>I’m trying not to sweat the stats or even to think much about the what ifs. D has her paperwork in, and she will see what happens.</p>
<p>What I’m realizing is that she and I need to have a talk about what to tell people. When she’s asked where she’s planning to go to school, right now she says, “I’m going out east to study theatre,” which covers her current choice A and the WL school B. But in a week or so the deposit will be in at A and for all intents and purposes that IS the answer. I think she doesn’t want to have to switch gears and re-tell people if things change, and I understand that. So maybe we’ll agree that for the month of May the above is her answer, but plan a time when things will shift to something more specific. </p>
<p>In her mind, she is choosing between A and B (which conveniently ARE their initials). So she is being honest when she tells family and close friends that is what she is doing, even though B isn’t an actual option. She has to continue to research and think about it, because we are concerned she will have only a small time to decide on a WL offer. So it is an active choice, very real in her mind. I don’t see it as her carrying some kind of pipe dream, because I know she is not.</p>
<p>School A has mandatory orientation in early July, so I’m going to be firm that by mid-June when we’re buying plane tickets and all that she’ll have to go completely public with that choice. I’m guessing she’ll be tired of having no exact answer to questions by then.</p>
<p>I do find myself wishing we weren’t “WL people,” but I remind myself it’s just a few more weeks, and it’s nothing like the previous wait we endured - she has a wonderful choice in hand, and if I want to feel like we’re “done” I can do all of the imagining of her being there that I want.</p>
<p>D was WL at 3 schools - her top 3. She elected to stay on them all with one favorite. She isn’t very settled with her “safeties”. When does waitlist movement begin? I have heard some schools sent WL letters saying late April was possible. Does this ever occur at Ivies?</p>
<p>Also, I encouraged my D to release a couple of schools she was certain she would not attend in hopes another student somewhere will get good news. It was hard as they were excellent schools, but the programs did not match exactly. Hopefully someone out there is going to be very happy and possibly a few days earlier.</p>
<p>My DD was waitlisted at 6 schools. Luckily she still has some great choices. Tomorrow she heads to Tufts Admitted Students Day and she seems excited. I know she has turned down most of her waitlisted schools but I’m not sure which ones she’s still considering. She’s not saying much, instead focusing on the schools that accepted her.</p>
<p>I have a question. I’m waitlisted at UChicago, which has been my first choice from around November/December or so. I have emailed and faxed an interest letter to the office and I believe an extra recommendation is either on its way or already at the admissions office. I know they don’t encourage the extra recommendation, but it can’t really hurt at this point. My question is, is it worth asking my college counselor to call UChicago and give me a little push? How should I ask him?</p>
<p>Our GC asked us to wait untill dust had settled from all admissions and then, “If there is a school that they would 100% attend if admitted then take the spot and come talk to us”. He definitely gave the impression that their office would go to bat and do everything in their power to help out and hopefully give back useful information. I have no clue whether the GC’s can make the difference or not nor how they would manage two kids from our school competing on the same waitlist, but I am curious to see how it turns out. Our graduating class is <150 so there are less likely to be those kind of conflicts.</p>
<p>My DS is not in WL limbo, but has two friends who are.</p>
<p>In reference to poster above, I would definitely talk to your GC and let them know how interested you are.</p>
<p>what is the situation when you are on multiple waitlists? my D is on 5 but seriously pursuing 3 (only accepted to safeties, waitlisted at all 5 other schools she applied to).
while it is somewhat unethical to tell more than one school that it is your first choice, is there a way to avoid this without putting all your eggs in one basket per say?
also, do schools require you to take yourself off other waitlists if you accept a spot (ie if she is offered a spot at #2 school, would she have to take herself off the list at her #1?)</p>
<p>Our daughter only told one school it was her first choice, her GC also made contact to the school to support that. She wrote to her second choice to demonstrate very strong interest, but never said she would attend if got off the WL. She got off both.</p>
<p>You are not required to take off yourself off the WL if accepted by one school. You could stay on as many WL schools and commit to only one school. If you should get off WL #1, you could decline WL #2 and lose the deposit.</p>
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<p>Our S was waitlisted by two schools. He opted to stay on one list and he declined the second which was a “reach/safety” school and whose waitlist stats over the past decade show they take from 0 to about 50 off of a waitlist of nearly 1,000 each year. Even if he were super interested in that school, the WL stats are really against him as he applied undeclared to the College of Arts & Sciences.</p>