<p>Note to all…I’ve asked the forum admins to unpin some of the older threads so that the “Please read this before posting” netiquette/privacy thread is first in line…Also asked to move the “Waitlist” thread to the “Featured” section so that is ready and waiting for M10. When “Official 2014 Decisions” thread goes up, I’ll ask that it gets pinned to the top…and the “Tom the Cat” (results+stats) as well.</p>
<p>Wow @classicalmama. My parents do the exact same thing! All they can talk about is all of the cool things that will happen if I stay! I keep telling them, “I only have 11 more days, calm down!” We are all pretty nervous… This whole thing was my idea and goal so… we’ll see!</p>
<p>@usernamess Thats actually sort of the same as my family. I lam leading them in this and they are still not confident that they really want me to go</p>
<p>10 more days!!!</p>
<p>It wasn’t that we didn’t want him to go or that we talked about it at every opportunity…we just tried to keep in mind that good things would happen the next year no matter what happened on March 10. I suspect that’s probably what your parents are thinking too. My kid had a waitlist year before he was accepted, and while it was disappointing for sure, it was okay and it ended being a good thing in the end as more possibilities opened up the next year. </p>
<p>So D has gotten several, unprompted emails and letters since J15 from a school that we didn’t consider last year. I don’t think there is much incentive for a school to send out hand-written notes when they are supposedly extremely busy and just one week before M10…unless it is genuinely interested. It’s not one of HADES schools but quite decent and we liked it. And these emails and letters did make us consider this school more positively than before. So I suspect that’s probably what the school is trying–if D gets lucky enough to have choices, it wants to have a place in D’s mind and be remembered. That’s probably how non-HADES schools are competing against HADES schools who in general don’t need to market themselves in this manner. If this was reading the tea leaves, their scent has been so aromatic and strong, I wouldn’t know how else I should take them.</p>
Today, I found a letter from Dana Hall waiting on the steps up to my room.
I was rejected from Dana Hall.
It was a handwritten thank-you note from my interview, sent in the first week of February; it was lost somewhere around my house.
I’m so glad I got it now. The one school that sent me a card rejected me. I’m glad I didn’t have the chance to read the tea leaves.
@stargirl3 - I am convinced that the follow up communications are intended to increase yield in the event of acceptance and are not at all a reflection of likely admissions decisions. Case in point, my son actually felt “recruited” to Choate to the point that it was launched to the top of his list. He felt that the football coach, who did the interview, took a personal interest in him. He wrote a “thank you, I loved the school” letter to this same person and got an immediate enthusiastic response. The result was a rejection! Not even a wait list.
Meanwhile, he received no attention from Exeter at all and he was accepted there.
I am convinced that any pre-M10 attention is simply to put the best foot forward for the school in the event that an acceptance comes through the applicant can feel a connection. Or, perhaps there is real interest from one individual, but that person is unable to convince the rest of the committee.
Last year, I got letters from Groton and Deerfield. Both waitlists. This year, I didn’t get anything from Groton and I was still waitlisted.
It doesn’t make a difference.
This thread was intense. Like top five biggest explosion threads in cc history?
@mrnephew: Hah! There was a period there a while back where I was notorious for starting threads that got shut down…