<p>So here is my situation: I was accepted to my safeties and waitlisted at Bryn Mawr. I was rejected from my first choice school that I thought I was going to get into, and was only admitted to my safeties. Needless to say, I am EXTEREMLY bummed. Anyway, now I REALLY want to get into Bryn Mawr. I know that makes it sound like I only want to go here because I didn't get into other schools. Actually, I am thankful I didn't get into my top choice and was forced to look in to Bryn Mawr and see what a fantastic, amazing school that it is. I MUST GO HERE!! </p>
<p>So any advice on how I can get off the waitlist would be wonderful! </p>
<p>I wrote the admissions office a heartfelt letter explaining my story (I have had a interesting high school experience...) and why I am the perfect kind of student/person to attend Bryn Mawr. My conselor at school was shocked I didn't get in so she has volunteered to write a new letter of recommendation. I have also called once and emailed the admission conselor for my area. I have also made it clear that if I am admitted I will attend. </p>
<p>If anyone has any advice on how to get off the waitlist or any experience with being waitlisted/ knowing someone who was waitlisted at Bryn Mawr, I would really appreciate anything. I am dying to go to this school!</p>
<p>Sounds like you have been doing the right thing. Generally, I'd go for showing interest without coming off as a pest, which you seem to be doing. I was accepted and won't be attending, so hopefully that'll bode well for you. Best of luck. :)</p>
<p>hahaha, i thought about jokingly offering to donate a kidney or other various body parts but dont want to come off like i dont take this seriously, because i do. </p>
<p>has anyone had any friends that were waitlisted and then accepted?</p>
<p>Ferrisbueller, im just wondering what makes you think most creative ways dont work well? have you had any experience with this? any information helps! thanks</p>
<p>Because the adcom's dont want people annoying them...and most, if not all, creative ways have been used already by desperate wait listees at every college.</p>
<p>all creative ways have been attempted, eh? haha... is that not a contradiction? that sure is a bold statement to make about ALL CREATIVE ways being tried. thats the things about creativity... there is not an endless supply of it. </p>
<p>with that said, i am not planning on sending in a "creative" plee for acceptance. i am smart, i made great grades (straight 100's last report card) the second half of high school and have enough college credits to be considered a junior (i am 17). however, i screwed up royally in the begining. there are a lot of other factors but it doesnt matter bc i didnt get in and that is fine. realistically, i am 100% aware that the chance are slim but there is a small part of me that is still hopeful. </p>
<p>Blah blah blah. Did I ask for your credentials? No, I didn't think so.</p>
<p>Of course your a great student, but you do have to realize that unless you have thought up some way to really show the college that you want to go there than NO ONE ELSE on the waitlist has done before, its not going to really make much of a difference. That being said, If you do find a creative idea, go for it.</p>
<p>No suggestions, mandela, but I do want to wish you the best of luck. My D is a rising senior at BMC has LOVED Bryn Mawr from day one. I wish every academically sound young woman who fully appreciates Bryn Mawr the way you do could be given the opportunity to go. Don't give up!</p>
<p>Good luck! Bryn Mawr was my very top choice and it was the hardest thing in the world to turn it down. (I qualified for no financial aid :\ And my parents were like, we'll pay 25k/yr but you pay the other 20k/yr. And I couldn't handle 80k+ in debt, what with majoring in humanities and all.) I'm still upset over it, to be honest, heh. Obviously, though, my spot is free so hopefully you can take mine! :) I have nothing to really add other than Bryn Mawr is the most amazingtastic school ever and I wish you the best of luck!!!</p>
<p>DanielR, if you really feel like your creative method is good enough to entice the adcom's opinion, then i would go for it! dont listen to what just one person says. and what do you have to loose? i havent thought of one just yet, but if i do i am going to make sure i think is spectacular. i want to make the admissions committee excited about looking at whatever i send, not bored or annoyed that they have to read some half-assed attempt at convincing them. if you really feel your idea is great, good for it!! good luck!!</p>
<p>Joycelene, thats a really mature decision of you to make in my opinion. i hope you do well where ever you end up. thanks for the support! and i agree, Bryn Mawr is the besssst!</p>
<p>and Sweetlax, there really isnt any reason to be rude. i wasnt giving those credentials just to you, it was for the board in general so ppl could get an idea of what kind of student i am. thats all. thanks for your input though, anything really does help. and you are right about making the creative plee really great, or not sending one at all. i agree.</p>
<p>I heard a funny story from someone I know why worked on the admissions committee at a very similar LAC. She said that they got a ton of letters from students on the wait list. One such letter ended by asking the committee if they knew that he/she could juggle 12 balls at a time. It made them laugh and the kid was admitted. It's a crap shoot. But good luck. I've heard that the numbers of students who have deposited at the LACs look like they are down from last year. I very much hope that this is the case because I am sitting, not so quitetly, and waiting on a lot of lists myself.</p>
<p>I've been communicating with the admissions rep for my area, which i hope is a good thing. i have just been keeping her up to date on changes to my application and she said it was great i was keeping her informed. they say that to everyone though! today is may 1st so hopefully, <em>fingers crossed</em>, bryn mawr will go on the waitlist and magically pick me! haha</p>