<p>Just out of curiosity, what are some ways you can get off the waiting list?? :)</p>
<p>oh, i posted this response on your other thread asking the same thing, but send them a letter & you should keep contact with the head of admissions/your interviewer, I know some people who got off that way.</p>
<p>What is the waiting list? Does everyone get placed on the waiting list? or are they plainly rejected?</p>
<p>waiting list is not acceptance or rejection...if its an accepted student does not want to go to the school and there are enough slots open, they take kids off of the waitlist, or if they have more room and stuff. sorry if that explanation was weird, i'm out of it today haha...</p>
<p>So, is everyone qualified placed on the waiting list?</p>
<p>Do they rank people on the waiting list? Or do they randomly select people from it if a slot opens up?</p>
<p>They're probably ranked, but I'm not sure.</p>
<p>I think the general feeling is that they are ranked and it also depends on FA, etc. However, I would also say the selection from the waiting list likely depends on who the person is that does not take the spot. For example, Exefield school is in need to a great tubanet player. They accepted 2 - both declined. They will likely look at their wait list and see who the tubanet players are on it. </p>
<p>The other thing that several had mentioned here AND I was told by our current school is that wait lists are sometimes used for kids who are qualified, but for example, may have done great in the fall term - way better than the previous year of school. The school is waiting to see the winter term grades to see if the student has kept it up, or if they just put in the effort for the aplications. They really DO have a spot for them, they are just waiting for the winter grades. </p>
<p>Schools that accept day students and boarding students would of course, have 2 seperate waiting lists for them.</p>
<p>I think you may as well burn this bridge when you come to it, but my theory is that there as many as FIVE (perhaps more) separate and distinct wait lists:</p>
<p>1) The Let's not be so cruel/don't burn our bridges/ list. Another poster refers to it as the "courtesy" wait list...where there's no chance in Hell you're going to get admitted, but they respect you, your parents, your feeder school, etc., enough not to crush you with an outright rejection. (They'll just string you along and give you false hope....)</p>
<p>2) The we need to see a more developed transcript list. One dean of admission told me that he and others sometimes keep a spot set aside for an applicant but they want to see the grades again in the spring to see if the student performs up to speed. This might be used for a student who is a late bloomer in terms of academic success, and the school wants to see if the student has turn the tables or if that first semester was an aberration. Or, conversely, if a student has been doing excellently all along and his some sort of stumbling block the first semester. </p>
<p>3) The impressive applicant but no room for more of this type of student list. Maybe you're a quarterback or bassoonist and they already have two recruited...and want to see what happens with those two before they open a space for number three.</p>
<p>4) The this one fits well here but we're out of FA at the moment list.</p>
<p>5) This one was pointed out to me by creative1: We don't think we're you're top choice and while we'd love to have you, we need to protect our yield...so let's see how interested you are if you're wait listed.</p>
<p>Basically, all wait list letters do not -- to my understanding -- mean the same thing. They look the same. Say the same words. But the underlying truth back at Admissions Central probably tells a different story. Some of these wait lists leave you with no chance of working your way into the class. Some of them leave the applicant with varying degrees of control over their fate.</p>
<p>Do all schools stick with their advertised dates of spending out decisions? Or do they could before and/or after the date?</p>
<p>We got a FedEx package from one school on March 7 or 8 last year and the others define March 10 in different ways. For instance, some look at March 10 as the day decisions can be delivered (via overnight courier and/or internet) or as the day the decisions get mailed. And the impact of a weekend on the process just further confuses the issue. Plus, for some schools, the internet delivery is only provided for international students. But, yeah, you shouldn't expect any news until March 10 and, depending on the school, maybe a day or two after that.</p>
<p>Thanks…that is consistent with what we were told be school representatives.</p>
<p>improve your grades a lot, that's what i was required to do</p>