<p>DD has been waitlisted at Dartmouth, Cornell, UPenn and UChicago. If she does get off of the waitlist in any of the waitlisted schools in June, she has to turn it down because by then she would have already accepted a scholarship ( for which the acceptance deadline is April 20th ) that gives her a full ride to CU/DU . But would getting off of a waitlist make it any easier to transfer into that college for the sophomore year? Do colleges have uniform policies in this regard? Also will the Ivies/UChicago give same FA to waitlisted students as they do to regularly accepted students?</p>
<p>If she should get off the WL she could accept and turn down the other school.</p>
<p>I think she could decline the scholarship and take the off-the-waitlist spot, too. I assume you’re talking about a named, competitive merit scholarship, but I don’t think a scholarship offer is any more binding than grant money from a school that doesn’t have merit scholarships. I’m sure there’s a sense of obligation if this was one of those deals where the finalists have to appear for on-campus interviews, though.</p>
<p>Adcoms don’t know yet what their transfer openings or transfer pool for next year looks like, so I’m not sure that even they could answer the question about coming off the waitlist making it easier to transfer. Transfer apps to elite schools are VERY competitive.</p>