<p>So far only one reported coming off the waitlist. Any one else? Make a List.</p>
<p>vivsters - Hotchkiss</p>
<p>vivster’s case is kind of exceptional, thus misleading-- hotchkiss claims it was an admissions error, not a typical waitlist case.</p>
<p>I recommend waitin after April 10th as that’s the deadline. I did turn down two f/a aid offers as a junior boy so hope it helps someone out</p>
<p>Vivster also had other offers. He was not in WL purgatory!</p>
<p>Please. Haven’t we been through this?! Does anyone actually believe that there was an admissions error?</p>
<p>People get moved for many reasons, but not because of an actual mistake.</p>
<p>Nobody is perfect so I believe an actual mistake in deed can happen albeit uncommon.</p>
<p>Therefore, it is entirely possible also the school could have admitted someone by administrative error, such as pulling the wrong person’s name and address, etc. But hey, a contract is still a contract :/)</p>
<p>Last year USD (San Diego) send out something like 28,000 acceptances meant for only 18,000. Cornell messed up also back in the 90’s and they’re not alone, the list goes on. The last guy that was perfect was hung on a cross.</p>
<p>Meantime, you have to hold on and see what unfolds in the coming weeks.</p>
<p>Well, the difference is that those mistakes impacted large numbers of students (as did L’ville’s erroneous “you’re admitted!” announcements on their website last year), as opposed to just a single candidate. And, if there was such an “error,” how in the world would it have been in the province of the head of school to discover it? I’d think he has better things to do than search the AO files for clerical errors . . .</p>
<p>Whatever happened in this case, it seems to have been a private matter . . . and should have been kept that way.</p>
<p>It’s very possible. All it would take is for whoever is handling the mail merge for the admissions letter to paste Vivster’s information into the wrong mailing list. The Head of Admissions could well have noticed the error when Vivsters expressed interest in remaining on the waiting list. Even if no one was looking for errors, when a note on the waitlist conversation was placed in Vivster’s file the error would have come to light.</p>
<p>As for AO’s knowing the candidates, when I called a school to ask a question of the Head of Admissions, as soon as I gave my child’s name he responded in a way that made it very clear he remembered my child’s application well.</p>
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<p>No question that the Head of Admissions could have noticed the error. In this case, however, it was supposedly the Head of School who intervened, not the Head of Admissions. Hence my prior post.</p>
<p>I have to call the school as it is obviously a clerical error that they missed one zero in my FA amount.</p>
<p>LOL hootoo!</p>