<p>So... As the title indicates, I was wait listed @ Middlebury. I decided to accept my spot on the wait list, and I'm now trying to update my application. </p>
<p>I sent a letter updating my accomplishments with swimming (breaking a club record) , local awards, academic honors, and to reemphasize my ongoing interest in Middlebury</p>
<p>But I have another question, would it be beneficial for me to update my application via standardized tests in the comings months? My best SAT is a 2100, and I think the absolute most i could improve it by would be about 100 pts ( to roughly 2200). I haven't taken the ACT, but if i studied consistently I bet I could get a decent score on it (maybe 32ish?). </p>
<p>I don't know if this is a dumb idea or if I should actually pursue it.</p>
<p>Thoughts? Suggestions? Comments</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>I would not retake tests. The fact that you were wait listed means you made the cut off for things like that. Wait list says “if we had room for everyone who applied that we wanted, you’d be in.”</p>
<p>I don’t think x number of points on a standardized test would convince them, and chances are they’ll make their decision before they even get those results.</p>
<p>If they lose a student who filled your niche in the class they’ll be interested in you. If not, they probably won’t be. I’m sorry.</p>
<p>I hope you have another option that makes you happy.</p>
<p>oh, and another question… will my grades this semester affect whether i get in off the waitlist?..that is, since the wait list decision will probably be made circa june 1st, does that mean that my final grades (which will finalized around june 20th) won’t play any role in their decision? (my grades aren’t looking too good right now)</p>
<p>They will look at the wait list around May10th, if they need to. They will possibly look at it again a week or two later. Your final grades won’t be a factor in getting off the list, EXCEPT that if they are really below your usual standard, your admission could be rescinded.
I agree with mythmom-no point in retaking any tests, that isn’t what is holding you back.The letter sounds complete, you may want to have someone you know with a Midd connection also write a letter why you would be a good fit.</p>
<p>ok so… my english teacher from last year, who im pretty sure likes me, as he wrote me a recommendation, went to middlebury for graduate studies of some sort.</p>
<p>Should i ask him to write middlebury a brief letter on my behalf?</p>
<p>Only if he really likes you…I would ask him straight out first.</p>
<p>haha ask him straight out if he likes me?</p>
<p>Well you can, “Would you feel comfortable writing a recommendation that could help me get off the wait list?” Most teachers would be honest in that situation.</p>
<p>Is this “new” information? While not a bad idea, I agree, I just wonder if another voice might be a more helpful one vs. one that is saying more of the same. Just a thought.</p>
<p>modadunn im not sure if i understand you, can you elaborate?</p>
<p>I was just thinking that if you ask someone who has already written you a recommendation to write what is essentially another one, this is not “new” information that would serve to strengthen your application. Would the teacher who is a Midd grad school guy be offering any new insights on top of what he’s already said? </p>
<p>Son was not waitlisted, but with his original applications he had two recommendations: both from different departments, but each would be considered falling within the realm of the humanities. At midyear when the counselors sent semester grades etc, she suggested he ask his current AP Bio teacher to write a very brief letter of support to include with this other new/updated information she was sending. Of course, this was mostly because he had decided that he loved science and wanted to major in it in college. </p>
<p>Like I said… it was just a thought.</p>
<p>yeah, your probably right…so then i guess i should limit my communication with middlebury to new activities like volunteering, awards etc</p>
<p>Hey Abravenewworld, I am waitlisted @ Middlebury as well and would really like to get off the waitlist. I am intending to send some more materials but I am quite confused if we must send post or an email to the admission office would be OK?? I am an international students so I am afraid the post would be too slow, esp there’s that volcano in Iceland now.</p>
<p>I think email is a fine way to communicate. If your GC is the helpful type, I would certainly enlist their help in trying to get to the top of the pile. Plus, if there are documents that are needed in support of an application, fax is as good a way to go as any. No need for snail mail.</p>
<p>My D was wait-listed but never filled out the form. She just got an email asking if she wants to stay on the wait list (she doesn’t, she’s going to swat). Just wondering if anyone else got the same email.</p>
<p>Congrats to your daughter! However I imagine that most people who are waitlisted let the school (whatever school) know they had decided to go elsewhere when they made that decision. Hadn’t they sent you a postcard or something to return to them? Son wasn’t WL at Midd, so I don’t know what you were sent from them, but he was WL at one and returned the card. I heard last night at a game that a few kids had already gotten off WL’s at other schools (none were Midd though).</p>
<p>Last year Midd looked at their waitlist May 4th and May 11th, they called and gave my S 24 hours to decide if he wanted a spot in the class. He was in the second group contacted.</p>
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<p>Maybe you are right, but as I recall, my D was required to send in the WL response card to ONLY those schools at which she wished to remain on the WL. Otherwise, no response was required. (BTW, she was waitlisted at Amherst, UPenn, Harvard, Princeton, Midd, AND Williams!) </p>
<p>None of her other WL schools have asked her if she wanted to be on the WL even though she never responded to them. She only responded to the schools she was accepted to (Swat, Wesleyan, Berkeley, Vassar, Haverford, and Kenyon) with either an SIR or a “No thanks, I’m going to Swat.” </p>
<p>I wondered if Midd’s WL email query was indicative that Midd’s waitlist was short and they perhaps wanted more kids?</p>
<p>That’s very interesting OldbatesieDoc. I actually contacted an admissions officer and he told me that they hoped to inform all waitlist students (if they end up utilizing the waitlist) of their decisions by the end of June. At first, I thought the ad. officer had misspoken seeing how I probably wouldn’t wait that long to hear. Do you by any chance know if May 4th and May 11th are fixed dates for Middlebury to contact waitlist students and how many “groups” get contacted?</p>
<p>Well… it’s true I don’t have much experience in this. Son was only WL at amherst last year. There was definitely a card in there to reply with a decision… to remain on it or not. Since it was his only one, and it was the only school who did not send any kind of notification via email, I remember it. Your D seems to have more experience, but I will assume Midd is just being polite and giving your daughter the benefit of the doubt in inquiring. I do hope, however, she was nice enough to email them back saying she was going elsewhere. Considering they only ever take about 50 kids off a WL that usually numbers in the hundreds, and it has been said that the qualifications of this year’s class was very high, I am sure they’d have access to at least 50. You know? :)</p>