Most of them are after April 10, but they may come before if the school is getting WAY less enrollments than they anticipated.
For example, school A gives out 50 acceptances and expects 40 of them to come. However, by the end of March, 20 accepted students have already told school A that they are committed to school B. Even if the rest of the undecided students ALL decide to enroll, they are still 10 spots short.
This is when they look at the waitlist, and pull off their desired candidates before April 10.
There are not WL âdecisionsâ. There are WL offers. And they donât generally happen all at once. A school may realize it needs boarding girls, so it may reach out to those. A week later, maybe theyâve lost 2 day boys to another school that made those boys a WL offer. So theyâll fill those holes. Sometimes, schools are surprised by how many students accept their M10 offers and are slightly over-enrolled, in which case they never go to their WL. And
So you may see WL activity on these boards without hearing a peep. And you may hear nothing except that the WL is closed. So please, donât gear up for another decision day.
Hey all, I saw from earlier on this thread about a person whoâs daughter wrote a letter of continued interest, and got into Lawrenceville just a week later. I did the same, but today I got a national scholastic art awards silver medal!! I did include in my apps a lot about my passion for art, so would this national prize help them re think putting me on the waitlist? I know exeterâs process might differ from LV but just wondering.
I am also an applicant this year, so Iâm not too sure about if it will get you off the waitlist, but I think that will definitely help your application! Itâs another accomplishment, and I think schools want to see that youâre still improving and doing the things you love. So I would say, it wouldnât hurt to update Exeter about this accomplishment!! Good luck!!
No school put you on a WL because you didnât accomplish enough, and no school is looking to take anyone off a WL because of new accomplishments â you 've already passed that bar. You may get off a WL if, after A10, the school finds itself underenrolled and your profile matches a hole they need to fill, say a female tennis-playing boarder or a male day student. Thatâs how it works. They are already impressed by you. They are not looking for more accomplishments.
Feel free to update your schools but as @ChoatieMom notes, you arenât on the WL because you werenât âgood enoughâ. I say this in the event that you are submitting this because you thought that was the case. You are indeed good enough.
So we have a box arriving on Saturday from an area where a school is located. If you get off the waitlist, will they mail a package? Will I get a phone call? Maybe I am being wishful thinking. Maybe they just havenât called yet?
Gunn wait list is going to be hard to move off. I spoke with admissions my D was waitlisted and this school is her first choice. She was accepted to Taft and Westminster. Gunn admissions had 5th consecutive year of record number of applications and although Frederick Gunn is generous with FA for a small school the yield is very high from initial acceptance. I appreciate their honesty about specifying FA waitlist versus others schools that pretend it is not a factor.
Hey so letâs say hypothetically you get pulled off the waitlist because they needed someone with an activity you included in your app. What if Iâm deciding not to continue that activity? Will they see that when Iâm registering for classes and reject me or something? I included I did saxophone (didnât say it was my favorite thing to do just that I know how) but Iâm not sure Iâll have time to do it with everything else I wanna do, since itâs not my top priority. Just in case chance is on my side and I get pulled off the waitlist, I donât want to be chosen for the wrong reason.
Once youâre admitted and have paid your deposit, they arenât going to rescind your admission unless your grades donât hold up or you do something inappropriate (such as cheating, plagiarizing, post something threatening on social media, etc.)
If they pull you, it wonât be for your saxaphone playing. If they need a sax musician, theyâll be pulling from from the virtuoso pile, not the casual player.
Hi, Iâm on the waitlist for Andover, Exeter, and Lawrenceville, and I have a few questions on how to continue:
Is it a good idea to write an email regarding interest in the school, as well as stating that you would attend the school if chosen.
I applied for financial aid thinking it wouldnât hurt my application. Now that I know a lot more about prep schools, is it a good idea to tell these schools that my family is willing, and able to pay for the full cost of tuition in order to improve my chances?
I was about to say the same thing a lot of the students I saw being admitted were full pay. There is no way theyâre completely need-blind and admitted mostly FP students.