The Wait List

<p>Stargirl, that’s absolutely possible - we were told exactly that by two of the three places DD was waitlisted (assuming probably true for the third as well.)</p>

<p>I was waitlisted at seven schools (and accepted into one that was not my first choice). Yesterday, I got off the waitlist at Loomis Chaffee! Today, I got an email from Taft saying they are not able to take me off the waitlist at this time, and Choate said that they don’t know enough information yet. I’m thankful I got accepted into Loomis, but I’m still hoping for something else to come through!</p>

<p>Has anyone heard from Hotchkiss, Deerfield, Exeter, or Groton? :)</p>

<p>congrats @fiercehearted! how did loomis contact you and whatd they say?</p>

<p>Thanks! They called my dad and he said that an admissions officer told him that I would be taken off the waitlist and she would be sending the papers/catalogue soon!</p>

<p>“I’m thankful I got accepted into Loomis, but I’m still hoping for something else to come through!”</p>

<p>Why? Love the school that loves you.</p>

<p>I usually agree with “love the school that loves you” but I’m not sure it applies with quite as much force in the WL context. Getting in off the WL doesn’t have quite the same “they love me” feeling. Fiercehearted is obviously just happy to have gotten in somewhere at this point, but I can totally understand still hoping that one of the other schools might come through too.</p>

<p>@soxmom: Fiercehearted also wrote “I was waitlisted at seven schools (and accepted into one that was not my first choice).” </p>

<p>To which I have two reactions: A) Why did you apply to a school that you wouldn’t be happy going to?; B) People would love to be that situation…to have at least one option to choose from — and now that Fiercehearted has TWO options in hand, he/she is hoping for more?</p>

<p>I admit that we’ve never been in the limboland of WLs…just acceptances or flat out rejection. But if it was my kid (and knowing what little I know about his/her overall situation), I would advise choosing between one of the two schools that want you instead of “holding out for a better offer”. I know at least one family on the forum that would love to have that slot at Loomis…</p>

<p>Just my two cents.</p>

<p>SevenDad, you got that right :)</p>

<p>Fingers crossed that Fiercehearted falls madly in love with Pomfret (after all, they loved her enough to offer her admission right off the bat)!! I am sitting here debating whether to pick up the phone to call Loomis or whether I just have to keep …waiting!</p>

<p>But SevenDad, that’s not what Fiercehearted said. She never said (that I saw, anyway) that she wouldn’t be happy going to Pomfret. All she said was that it wasn’t her first choice, that she was waitlisted at a bunch of schools, and that of those, Hotchkiss was her first choice. At the moment, she obviously needs to make a choice between Pomfret and Loomis, and it sounds like from her other posts that’s what she’s trying to figure out. But I don’t see why she isn’t entitled to still hope that she might get in off the waitlist at the school that was her number one choice all along.
(and JAH, all of this is said being very mindful of the fact that your daughter is dying to go to Loomis. I don’t mean to minimize that at all, and totally understand why you’re of course rooting for Fierce to pick Pomfret!)</p>

<p>@jahphotgal - First, huge hugs to you. Such an agonizing thing. Second - for what it’s worth, I’d say call. It will give you peace of mind (whatever they say) and they will understand. Go for it I say. And know that so many of us have fingers and toes crossed for you all.</p>

<p>@soxmom: What I get from this statement by Fiercehearted “I’m still hoping for something else to come through!” is that neither Pomfret or Loomis are her first or second choice. </p>

<p>My point is, at this juncture (April 11th), these are his/her ONLY choices.</p>

<p>Good luck to everyone still waiting for news…</p>

<p>I know, but you seem to have translated “not my first choice” into “a school that you wouldn’t be happy going to” and I think those two things are totally different. My son applied to 7 schools, and he would have been perfectly happy to go to any of the 7 or we wouldn’t have bothered to apply to them. But that said, there were 3 schools that he most wanted to go to, 2 that kind of fell into the middle, and 2 at the bottom of his list that he still would have chosen over staying at his current school but didn’t like as much as the others. I think Fiercehearted is just saying that same thing. Yes, Pomfret and Loomis are indeed her only choices today. And presumably she will pick one of those two. But that doesn’t mean that there’s zero chance of her still getting into Hotchkiss or wherever she’d pick over Pomfret/Loomis if that option came up. I don’t see anything wrong with her continuing to wish for that, as long as she’s clear-eyed about the fact that it’s pretty unlikely to happen.</p>

<p>I hear Pomfret is AWESOME!!! She will be SO HAPPY there!
(OK time to get off CC and do something, anything else - I’m getting loopy now.)</p>

<p>Yay! First post ever!</p>

<p>Here is actually what I wanted to say: Just saying that april 10 has come and gone. Isn’t it too late to still be waiting on a wait list? Hasn’t fiercehearted put down a deposit on one of the schools? I was just a bit confused on that.</p>

<p>Whatever she chose, I hope she has an AMAZING time there! :)</p>

<p>Got off the WL of the 1st choice school in May, forfeited the deposit to school which accepted me. Very very happy :-)</p>

<p>I got of the waitlist at a school I really loved. I got the news early May.</p>

<p>Vanilla, where will you be going? (Prepschoolplease, assume it’s Hotchkiss for you?) Congratulations to both of you!</p>

<p>That’s awesome!! Which schools, if you don’t mind my asking? Have a great time there! :)</p>

<p>Bump… The Best Thread on CC regarding boarding schools waitlists.</p>

<p>Yeah, this really needed the bump. It’s not like IT’S THE FIRST THREAD OF THE ENTIRE HOMEPAGE LINE UP WITH “IMPORTANT” PUT IN BIG LETTERS NEXT TO IT.</p>