<p>If you get accepted from the waitlist, how will you find out? Will college call you or just mail the acceptance letter to you?</p>
<p>Depends on the school, I guess. I know two students in previous years who received telephone calls.</p>
<p>Do colleges first ask you if you are still interested and then accept you? Do they just accept you and you decide whether or not to enroll?</p>
<p>I don't understand the waitlist. If you are accpeted off of a waitlist, wouldn't that be after May 1? Wouldn't you have already committed to a college by then? Or do you just hope that you get in off the waitlist and don't commit to any other college?????</p>
<p>And that indeed is the catch. You must send a, most often, non-refundable deposit to some school before May 1. If you get off the waitlist and make a new choice then you lose your deposit. ($200, $300, $400 ?) When a waitlist arrives it usually contains information about that school's policy. Our student received a phone call offering her a place at the school. You need to be ready though, the school typically wants an answer within a week if not sooner.</p>
<p>I recently sent a waitlist follow-up letter, but I am no longer interested in that school. So, if I get off the waitlist and refuse to enroll, will college think I'm lying and just want to get in?</p>
<p>If you refuse to enroll, then they'll go to the next person on their list. They don't care. They know that loyalties change.</p>
<p>and also since its non-binding, they cant say anything about it...</p>
<p>Apparently some colleges want the decision on the phone on thew spot, so be ready... If u live abroad, then u prolly wont get a call :)</p>