<p>My daughter was deferred from EA then waitlisted…</p>
<p>94.1 Average
5 AP’s total and honors…this years first and second quarter was a 98 and 97 avg
1210 SAT
Great EC’s
National Honor Society
Peer Aids Leadership
Tutors 3 students in chemistry…
Works part time
Babysits</p>
<p>All I can say is REALLY?</p>
<p>^^ heard of the above quite often from Marist, why is anyones guess. A few kids at D school with stats as your D and higher also waitlisted.</p>
<p>I have two theories…she not an athlete…and I have financial need?</p>
<p>Well a girl I know last year, more than qualified by stats, was called on April 2nd. Waitlisted was an athlete and and also had need, so, their maybe a line above the 75% they will offer a waitlist, your D stats more than qualify based on admission data.</p>
<p>I give up trying to figure this all out.LOL</p>
<p>GCMom-my D was wait listed also. 1760 SAT; 28 ACT; 96GPA; ranked 9/128. We were shocked. She was just accepted to Fordham yesterday so now she will decided between them & Manhattan.</p>
<p>My son is a sophomore at Marist so my experience is a little dated but his older three siblings are all graduated from another Institution so we are veterans to the process and understand how emotional it can be. I think that we as parents know our kids and it is obvious to us that any college should be proud to have them. That being said the college Admissions Counselor looks at young men and women as a demographic, with certain grades, from a particular state/school and has to chose. Sometimes it comes down to what state a kid is from so that if you are from Hawaii for instance your grades/scores can be significantly lower than a kid from NY/NJ/CT simply because of the numbers of applicants.</p>
<p>If you try to understand it without having a chance to ask the person “what they heck were you thinking” you will drive yourself crazy and risk doing the same to your student. My advice would be to help your son/daughter focus on which of the schools to which they were accepted and decide what is best and to not feel any remorse about anything else. It sounds like you have some fantastic schools to chose from so now you are in the drivers seat! Good luck.</p>
<p>If you are over qualified and has not shown a real interest in their school, they will reject/waitlist you. Marist is the type of school that want to make sure that you are going to attend. My son was accepted last year with 1820 and 3.08 GPA. He showed a lot of interest…He attended an open house, send a card to admission thanking them and called a couple of times to ask questions and applied early action. Each contact you have with them is a point in your favor. Remember that they get over 10,000 application and their acceptance rate is around 30% so it is very competitive. </p>
<p>My nephew was waitlisted with 1630 SAT and 3.0 GPA this year, but all he did was attend an open house.</p>