<p>Hi. Well, I recently was allowed to apply to a boarding school (after years of begging my parents), and now it's too late. However, they said that I could apply, but best case scenario would be me being placed on the waitlist.</p>
<p>So my question is, what are my chances if I'm placed on the waitlist. I also wanted to contact the basketball coach to see if he could help me out. Could I be placed at the front of the list even though I applied late?</p>
<p>I am afraid that you are too late to apply this year the deadline for applications was in February. You can apply next year though and there are still alot of other great schools that are still accepting applications for this year. Check out some schools with rolling-admissions</p>
<p>You should call those schools to make sure they have available spots. They will give you the best answer, not CC. I read somewhere that Hotchkiss may accept late applicants, by the way.
You’re a full pay applicant right? (I mean you don’t need financial aid). I think you do have good chance. Yeah contact whoever needed be, any/everything can help.
You may also look for other boarding schools, many have rolling deadline.</p>
<p>By the way, if you apply for any financial aid, your chance is zero.</p>
<p>My daughter recently graduated from Hotchkiss and I was very surprised to see this posting about applying late to Hotchkiss and being admitted late. I have never, ever heard of anything like this. The only students I have ever heard of being admitted after March 10th were those from the waitlist and they are few and far between. I’m not trying to dash anyone’s hopes but again I have quite a bit of experience with Hotchkiss and I don’t believe this information is correct about late apps/acceptances.</p>
<p>I’m even more surprised that you haven’t heard. Hotchkiss even has a section on their website with instruction for late applicants, and they tell people to send in applications. I don’t think they make it up and lie to kids.
Getting in late is nothing to be proud of, so kids don’t walk around bragging about being late, maybe that’s why you haven’t heard?
I’m not sure about Hotchkiss in particular, but I know late applicants who got in schools like Loomis Chaffee and The Hill</p>
<p>It has always been my understanding that by late applicants, they mean those whose full application packet has not arrived by the 15th of January and that this is done as a courtesy. That is why the website discusses late applications and explains that they may not make the March 10 notification dates but that Hotchkiss will make every attempt to notify those late applicants by April 15th. It is my opinion that it isn’t meant to be construde as a type of rolling admissions, but I think they are trying to have a heart when things come in late, sometimes through no fault of the applicant. That is why I have a problem with the June date from an earlier post. I should have stated this better the first time so sorry about that.</p>
<p>As a parent with a child in his first year at Hotchkiss, I just want to mention that this school amazes me almost daily. </p>
<p>When reading the Hotchkiss “Daily Bulletin” this morning, I noticed that the school will host later this month Seamus Heaney. This visit by Heaney will mark the second lecture by a Nobel Laureate for Literature at the school this spring. The other Prize winner was Wole Soyinka. </p>
<p>For a school…a high school!..to have one Nobel prize winner on campus…ever… is incredible. To have two in two months is unbelievable. Absolutely unbelievable.</p>
<p>What a truly remarkable place is Hotchkiss.</p>
<p>Many PGs don’t even think about the application process until after college decisions come in during the early spring. Many schools (including And/Ex/Hot/DA/Cho) take applicants for athletics throughout the spring even though they have missed the “deadline”. If a truly remarkable, fantastic, full-pay student (with a major hook) shows up in June and the school can find a bed, they will admit them. This is not advertised but is reality.</p>
<p>I made inquiries to 14 schools regarding the possibility of filing a late (post-March 10) application. Those schools included four of the five HADES schools, by the way. Twelve of the 14 stated outright that they welcomed late applications. Two of the 14 advised us to wait until after April 10 - just to make sure there would actually be space.</p>
<p>Regarding financial aid, two of the schools stated outright that significant financial aid would not be possible, two said “maybe,” and the rest said it was not impossible, but nonetheless highly unlikely.</p>
<p>One of the schools stated unequivocally that it gives preference to candidates already in the waiting pool. Many of the rest said that all waitlisted candidates would receive the same consideration - without regard to when the applications were received. </p>
<p>So, for those who want to file a late app - call the school in question and ask! For those who need financial aid, do the same thing! Do not listen to anyone on this board who tells you it can’t be done . . . As I’ve said on this board before, the only thing that makes late admission impossible is not filing an application!</p>
<p>Toombs61, my daughter graduated from Hotchkiss and I too was constantly amazed by the speakers and performers who came to the school. She also went on some fantastic trips with Hotchkiss, including Antarctica. I wish I could have gone there!</p>
<p>I’m still dazed by such excellence at Hotchkiss. I went to a very elite Ivy League school in the late '60’s and early '70’s. Trust me: we never had during those years any Nobel Laureate in Literature grace our campus for a public lecture (at least to my best recollection). But here you have a high school…A HIGH SCHOOL!..bringing TWO such winners to campus in a four week period. </p>