<p>Accepted!</p>
<p>Anyone else get the good news?</p>
<p>No. I got waitlisted. Congrats, but the rest of us aren't too thrilled it appears. Unless not coming back and posting is a sign of getting in. This isn't a good omen for me at Brown. If you're wondering I have a 1400 ect, 300 hours of community service, nationally ranked in chess. Llike everyone here, have a chance at any school but the odds are against me at all the top ones.</p>
<p>Yeah, I had a 1410 and a 3.9ish GPA and got waitlisted.</p>
<p>I want to know what it was that got me waitlisted and not accepted, because I was really growing to like Davidson. My GC didn't understand the waitlist either - I think she thought I was going to get in, because they actively recruited kids from my school last year.</p>
<p>I had a 1420 and 4.3 and was waitlisted...Davidson was my top choice : (</p>
<p>Accepted! I'm so relieved that someone wants me.</p>
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<p>Mine was probably my guidance counselor recommendation, actually. She's brand new and really doesn't know me, and I assume she tried to b/s some stuff. I saw everything else and it was fine (except my grades / 1310/3.6u), and that was the only mystery.
Like, I didn't expect to get in academically, but I realized that I'm the president of NHS, do a *<strong><em>load of community service, and SIGNED THE LETTER OF INTENT FOR TRACK.
The last thing is really the heartbreaker, because I signed that letter, it meant that I couldn't talk to any other coaches and thus couldn't be recruited anywhere else. . .figuring that 98% of the time, if you sign the letter it's like an automatic admittance.
Now I have to e-mail the coaches from Wake Forest, who I haven't talked to since my junior year, again and see if I can still go out for the team if I get into the school.
I'm not mad I didn't get in - I'm an idiot, let's face it - I'm just kind of *</em></strong>ed that this might have screwed my collegiate running career.</p>
<p>Ecliptica- don't be discouraged. Remember the thread on the parents' board about how lots of coaches are going to lose athletes they thought they had? i.e. Scotland jilting Georgetown!! You now need to really "rush" the coaches you had to ignore, such as Wake. Find out if Tulane is really going to put their track program back in. What did the Davidson coach say about your chances off of the waitlist? YOU WILL RUN!!!!</p>
<p>Tulane is definitely putting their track program in, I've talked to the coach at Wheaton College in MA (because I train there sometimes) and he's very good friends with Coach Corn, who is their sprints/jumps coach. Tulane doesn't have a very strong sprints program (their distance/XC is great and one of my friends that ran from the town over from me is a sophomore there now, he ran 4:24 / 9:26 in high school) but I probably would've been the best guy at Davidson anyhow.
As far as Wake Forest, Coach Fish told me last year that I would need to drop my times a little to make the team. I have dropped them, but they've brought in a lot of talent in their freshmen class. I assume I could still jump for them, but if I do run there, I'd be redshirting my freshman year.
I haven't heard back from the coach about getting off the waitlist, but I highly doubt I'm going to remain on it unless I don't get into Wake Forest.
Thanks for your support through all this, MoWC.</p>
<p>Ugh..I'm sorry Ecliptica. I had a similar experience with the music dept. I applied for the scholarship and even though I didn't get one the musc. dept. said there was "very strong interest" in my application and they hoped to see me out there to play for their piano faculty even though they couldn't give me the scholarship. Naturally, that kind of made me feel that I had a decent chance of getting into the school. You can imagine my dismay when I opened up that online decision to find that I had been waitlisted. AND I've been rejected from W&M. Now I'm just praying for UVA...</p>