<p>Hello everyone,
I need some help for my friend who's in a strange situation. In short, she was accepted to Loyola Maryland and wait listed at Fordham University. Loyola was her dream school and she wants to attend; however, her parents want her to attend Fordham. Her uncle graduated from Fordham and has connections, and is currently trying to get her accepted off the waitlist. My friend is trying to prevent this, but isn't sure how she can get herself rejected without her uncle finding out. She can't take herself off the waitlist because her uncle will
hear about it. Does anyone know how she could get herself rejected without her uncle finding out?
Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>How, pray tell, will her uncle find out that she is no longer on the waiting list? Is he one of the Fordham admissions officers, the guidance counselor at her high school, or the alumni admissions chair for her part of the country?</p>
<p>If she doesn’t want to go there, she needs to tell her parents. Unless the aid package is likely to be so very much better at Fordham (assuming she would get in in the first place), it is time to drop any notion of keeping it on the list and just move on.</p>
<p>My sister answered the “Why do you want to go to Harvard?” question in her interview with “I don’t, my parents made me apply”. Whether or not it worked is hard to say. She was rejected, but maybe she would have been anyway.</p>
<p>People write letters to their waitlist schools all the time saying “I promise to come if I’m accepted, I really love your school.” Could she write the opposite, “I’m happy where I am, I don’t plan to switch, no offense”, and specifically mention her uncle? I can’t imagine they’d accept her after that.</p>
<p>lol, tell her she’s a horrible person for purposely trying to go against her parents.</p>
<p>How about an honest conversation thanking the uncle for his support, and explaining that she would prefer to attend another school? Then another honest conversation with her parents to explain her preference? Once that is done, she can withdraw from the wait list in peace.</p>