<p>I think basically what I am trying to say is that I have been waitlisted. Is there any possibility that I may persuade them to offer me admission asap rather than wait if I am convincing? Also, is there anyway to meet with the admissions officers personally in order to sway them? thanks.</p>
<p>i dont think so... you can always try to send them more stuff you're doing, more activities. you might want to send them any accomplishments made between the time you sent your app and now, that might persuade them, but i dont know if they'll accept you off the waiting-list</p>
<p>Yeah I was wondering the same thing, whether or not I should send in my 3rd Quarter report card because it was good. I don't want to **** off these guys by sending in stuff they don't want though.</p>
<p>well... sending in something that will "****" them off wont hurt you... will it? you should sent them anything that puts you in a positive light. if your report card average was much higher than the transcript average you sent them, by all means send it in.</p>
<p>Hey, this link might help. </p>
<p>Good Luck. I hope everything works out :)</p>
<p>darn, looks like I have to wait another 6-8 weeks.</p>
<p>I have heard just expressing your true desire to go and remaining on top of it without suffocating them via email, a letter,etc.........keep them on top of everything good happening to you whether it be grades, an honor, a job, an extra curricular, etc........Good luck!</p>
<p>thanks anewkid.</p>
<p>Just a question has this worked before or is it just your advice?</p>
<p>well, my friend got waitlisted to columbia, harvard, and princeton. i got waitlisted to Washington U in St. Louis. We're both planning to write a personal statement to our repective college in order to persuade them to take us off the waitling list. my friend claims that you have to show a passion for the school, and send in anything, ANYTHING, that will make you more respectable and place you in a positive light. remember..., in your personal statement, write your true feelings about wanting to attend BC, even if your feelings are fabricated</p>
<p>how can your feelings be true and fabricated?</p>
<p>(My thoughts exactly), but what I think miragemage is trying to say is that you have to show them that you want to go to BC, even if you have to stretch the truth a little bit and exaggerate your desire to attend.</p>
<p>heh, a bit contradictory, but express your feelings about BC, stretch the tirht, anything to get the admissions officers to admit you to BC</p>
<p>I heard that last year they only accepted boys off the waitlist because the breakdown is typically 49% male 51% female</p>
<p>it would be different every year. what if 75% of accepted males attended and 25% females accepted attended. then they would need to take more females. i wouldnt worry about it.</p>
<p>I think that is the breakdown at the university as whole: BC has a slightly higher percentage of females, so they only accept males off the waitlist unless you had some kind of connection; which from my experience, is needed to get off any waitlist at any school anyway. But sending in additional information letting them know you still want to go to BC can't hurt, they like to know you'd actually ditch another school that youre committed to and go to BC if taken off the waitlist.</p>
<p>They don't only accept males off of the waitlist. I have no idea how many waitlisted people were accepted last year, but I personally know at least 10 females in the current BC freshman class who were waitlisted... I'm sure there are more! Both males and females came off the list last year... although I have no idea what the exact # is. If you were really interested, I would think the Admission Office would tell you.</p>
<p>marieob, do you know if they did anything special to get off the WL</p>
<p>Carnegie - I'm not sure if they did anything particular to get off the wait list. I'm sure a student would have to let Admisisons know, (without being obnoxious), that if accepted they would DEFINITELY take the spot. At this point, BC wouldn't want to offer a place if they weren't fairly certain it would be accepted.</p>
<p>i really really really hope to get off of the WL</p>
<p>Does anyone know whether BC's yeild numbers are up or down so far from last year?</p>