<p>fallenchemist - very good post. At this stage, which is a bit different than the initial application stage, it is more about how to differentiate yourself and “what you bring to the table”. Even in your example, it is about the student “If you happen to be an excellent singer,”. I suppose it may be spliting hairs and if it appears that way - I apollogize since that was not the intent. During the WL process, it really does become more about “why me instead of someone else”. You have to give your advocate (admissions officer) the needed ammunition to get their candidate and not another advocate’s candidate off the WL. Show the school how or why you are a missing piece of the puzzle that they are assembling for their freshman class. Why and how is a particular student the best fit for the school, where or what is your niche.</p>
<p>I know I should ignore an ignorant post such as nyccard’s, but does anyone have a clue what that means?</p>
<p>OK, I just looked at some of his other posts. He is just a flamer that thinks that putting down every other school out there somehow makes him feel better about his. Yes, Stanford is one of the finest schools in the country. Try being happy about that for its own merit. Clearly Stanford does have at least one flaw: the maturity of students they accept if you are typical.</p>
<p>(I really thought people learned at about 10 years old that trying to build yourself up by putting down others was ultimately self-destructive behavior. I guess some never got the lesson).</p>
<p>Some things are obvious. This is such a thing. But I specifically meant the last sentence was completely ignorant, and the first two seem nonsensical. Most likely because they are. BTW, WUSTL is not my alma mater.</p>
<p>Waitlisted at Wash U!!
Accepeted to - BU, BC, Brandeis, UW-Madison, UCONN, McGill, UNC, Middlebury, Loyola UNiversity Chicago, University of ROchester, and some others</p>
<p>FYI, I got waitlisted at WashU and accepted at Harvard, Yale, Northwestern and Penn. Not to sound super arrogant, but I kind have a hard time believing it’s not some manifestation of Tufts syndrome.</p>
<p>If by Tufts syndrome you mean “What’s the point of accepting someone that is going to pretty clearly go Ivy and yes, we realize that this smacks of playing to the rankings but hey, we didn’t make up the ranking reports and as soon as we stop worrying about our ranking we will get sniped for having fallen in the rankings by the same people that complain we play to the rankings”…Well then yes, I guess it is.</p>
<p>I certainly don’t think your ego is too bruised by being waitlisted by Wash U with all those acceptances under your belt, LOL. Congrats on your excellent results. Which one you going to pick?</p>
<p>What do I need to do to let WashU know that I do not want a place on the wait list? I was accepted to Princeton, so there’s no reason for me to take up a spot on WashU’s waiting list and thus prevent someone else who wants to go to WashU from getting accepted.</p>
<p>I believe you can cancel your spot through the online system, if not, then the fastest way(s) may be in writing thru a email to the admission office… or a phone call can take care of it.</p>
<p>Per one school’s Naviance data, Washington U seems to engage in a particularly [insert negative word] practice. 4 year of data showed 83 applications, 11 admissions and 31 waitlists - WITH ZERO WAIT LISTS EVER BECOMING ADMISSION. Very odd and the most extreme example of the data evaluated, although Dartmouth and Busknell were similar. </p>
<p>Why extend all these wait list acceptances if you never intended to let any of them in?</p>