<p>Well today I got rejected by a third college (bright side, none were my top choice). Anyways I still have two more colleges who I am waiting for admissions decisions. I sent in a Non-Custodial Parent Waiver to all of the five colleges, and the three that rejected me never said whether or not they accepted the waiver. Whereas the two that I am waiting on (Emory and Wake Forest), did say that the waiver was accepted. So, what I was wondering was, might the waiver acceptance mean that I got accepted. . . . or is that just me holding out hope?</p>
<p>Well, today I got waitlisted at Wake Forest.</p>
<p>The waiver is for the financial aid office, not for the admission office. Unless the institution has a specific policy of not admitting more students who need financial aid after the money runs out, this won’t affect your admissions.</p>
<p>Make an appointment with your guidance counselor to talk about options that you can pursue if that last college give you bad news too. Do you want to apply to some late application date or rolling admission colleges? How about a gap year?</p>
<p>Well my back up is the University of Kansas, where I am guaranteed admissions. I know that the university’s financial aid office is different from the office of admissios, but I was just wondering why they would go through all the trouble of asking for a waiver, accepting it, and then sending me more forms to fill out, if they were not going to accept me. But thanks, I understand what you are saying, and you are probably right.</p>
<p>Most financial aid offices are madly processing financial aid applications at the same time that the admissions offices are madly processing admissions applications. If they wait to start the process until they hear from the admissions committee, no one would have an aid package in time to decide before May 1. Every year there are students whose files are verified, and whose NCP paperwork is delivered who ultimately are rejected by the college that asked for all of that information. I can only think how exasperating it must be for the financial aid staff to see so much of their hard work just get tossed!</p>