At this point, you should just follow their instructions. Precisely!
As you may have noted from the threads here, there are a lots of people who got WL at schools they know they will not attend. You want to be sure you are added to the Active WL.
If there are any schools you would say yes to immediately if they offered you a spot, you can write a brief note to that effect. But it must be true!
If you have no acceptances, you can tell all of them that you were WL everywhere and are determined to attend BS and if offered a spot, you will accept immediately and remove yourself from all other WL. But again, it must be true. If you are reading this post and cringing at the thought of doing that, you should only say that where you can follow through.
yes the email said that - maybe just to ensure not everyone on that long list clicks âkeep me on the WLâ - or to stop floods of incoming calls and emails.
Itâs tough though. Someone will be that 2%.
The schools are trying to be honest and upfront. They donât want anyone making plans around this slim possibility. But they also need folks to be standing in the wings.
This will happen again in college admissions.
If this is your first encounter with this, itâs easy to feel outraged and used. If you understand whatâs actually going on, itâs much easier to realize itâs just part of the process. Which of course is easier to swallow.
Also have a kid who was WL at NMH- he was so disappointed and read the 2% and immediately said, thatâs even smaller than my chance of getting in before WL⊠huge reality check!
Hi! Yesterday Groton decisions came out and we were waitlisted for second form (8th grade). Is it likely that people get off the second form waitlist? Do you know of anyone who has gotten off? And are you experiencing the same thing? Thank you.
Waitlist movement is unlikely and random. Itâs exceedingly hard to chance. The Groton 8th grade is heavy with siblings so my guess, and it is just a guess, is that the waitlist for 8th grade is even less dynamic than most.
Iâm sorry you are waitlisted, hopefully you have other options youâre happy with.
Agree with @one1ofeach . Plus there are fewer other options for 8th, so itâs less likely a kid is sitting on several acceptances and deciding where to go.
Best of luck to you! Iâd like to offer some words of encouragement to anyone waitlisted to a school they want to attend.
I was waitlisted to Exeter, my top choice, when I first applied, and that was a hard time for me. I hoped that I would be taken off the waitlist, but the reality is that there is little to no chance for that to happen. I stayed at my local day school and decided to reapply the next year, showing much greater focus and effort in all parts of the application, and I was accepted! Looking back, I couldnât be happier that I made the decision to try again.
To all students: whether you stay at your local school or decide to enroll at one of your acceptances, know that there is always the option to reach for something you didnât get the first time. There is also the other scenario where you find yourself happy and satisfied at another school - things change sometimes!
Hope this provides some comfort and encouragement to those who need it.
The Hotchkiss WL email referenced accepting fewer students due to a renovation of dorms. Does anyone know how much this impacted their acceptance rate?
I was starting to wonder if prep schools too, like colleges have started to put students on waistlists so as to lower their acceptance rates and increase their overall yield rates, along with ofcourse selecting the best fit applicants?
BS applicants, like college applicants, apply to a number of schools precisely because itâs hard to know where anyone will be accepted. As a result, most applicants will have options on M10. For the schools and colleges, itâs really impossible to predict accurately who on the final decision date will say yes to them. In order to create the class they need/want, they need a long WL.
There is a thread going now that shows one college offered more than 1000 students WL positions last year. Only 300 accepted a place on the WL, meaning that the others had someplace else to go that they preferred. Of those 300, 100 were actually enrolled in Sept. You can see how that college really didnât have a huge pool in the end as we know nothing about the distribution in terms of gender, FA need, intended major, etc.
The schools donât care about acceptance rates and yield as much as applicants on these boards think they do. What they care about is getting the applicants they need to enroll the class they want.
Iâm really sorry about that I understand your position and itâs really tough, especially when you know youâre qualified but they donât want you as much as other people. I think that writing a LOCI(letter of continued interest) helps. Talk about how the school would benefit you and what you will give to the school and what youâve been doing to be a better applicant and student(or person overall). I got waitlisted at Loomis and Suffield and I have no other options because all the other schools were not the ones I was interested in(sophomore applicant). Itâs extremely upsetting but Iâm trying my best to do better and be hopeful. I also wrote a LOCI and I can absolutely help you with writing one! Let me know how it goes, Iâm rooting for you!
Iâd like to offer some words of encouragement to anyone waitlisted to a school they want to attend.
I understand your position and itâs really tough, especially when you know youâre qualified but they donât want you as much as other people. I think that writing a LOCI(letter of continued interest) helps. Talk about how the school would benefit you and what you will give to the school and what youâve been doing to be a better applicant and student(or person overall). I got waitlisted at Loomis and Suffield and I have no other options because all the other schools were not the ones I was interested in(sophomore applicant). Itâs extremely upsetting but Iâm trying my best to do better and be hopeful. I also wrote a LOCI and I can absolutely help you with writing one! Let me know how it goes, Iâm rooting for you!