<p>I have a question for all of you who got into UVA off the wait list. What did you do to get noticed?</p>
<p>Waitlist tactics
I would advise that you write a letter of interest with below in mind:
-embellish your college activities>>new leadership roles? New projects? New awards?
-new honors that you’ve received?
-be specific about why you want to go to UVA (not just its pretty) “The neuroscience dept. is one of a kind, Dr. X provides the best in the nation, I want to study with Dr. X, and Dr. X will make me a better person”</p>
<p>Also, if you can get a new letter of recommendation from someone that will clearly write the best letter for you. I wasn’t personally on the waitlist for UVA, but I know of someone who was, and their family had connections with someone important with ties to UVA and that helped get that person off the waitlist.</p>
<p>Keep in mind, only about 10% of WL students are proactive and write or do anything, so this is real important.
Best of luck,
~powder</p>
<p>Have you considered how you might contribute to UVA? My daughter was admitted off the waitlist in 2006. She focused on what she could contribute to UVA. It worked - and she is contributing as she promised them she would.</p>
<p>Honestly, while all of this stuff can’t hurt I really have no idea how I got off the waiting list.</p>
<p>The week beforehand I sent an e-mail with some new awards I’d received, but it wasn’t anything major at all. I think for me it helped because none of the 3 students who got in from my school elected to attend.</p>
<p>But again, this is all just speculation. I have absolutely no idea why my application was chosen, but I’m very happy that it was!</p>
<p>If you’re a waitlisted student, I wish you the very best of luck! :)</p>
<p>I got off the waitlist without doing anything. Seriously, I didn’t send them anything. Certainly it can’t hurt to send them any updates you have but it seems that the most important thing to them is to be a good student.</p>
<p>Just sent updates new grades a few letters of recommendation, they called to ask if I was interested and I said I was. I think the most important thing is to make it clear you want. to attend and that you will if taken off the waitlist.</p>
<p>goldie,
I bet you are in! Let us know when you know for sure.</p>
<p>I found out a few weeks ago I got in! Good luck I haven’t heard from Dean J’s blog that the class is complete yet.</p>
<p>I’m still on the waitlist, haven’t received any results. -_-</p>
<p>I’m still waiting too. It’s already the end of the month. Dying for an answer</p>