<p>Right now, I've been put on wait list for my three top schools: University of Michigan, Emory University, and New York University. I've already accepted my position to stay on the wait list for Emory and NYU, but I was just wondering whether or not the schools could find out if I accepted a wait list position for another school. I'm thinking of accepting the wait list position at U of M, but I'm kinda skeptical about it. If colleges are able to find out which other schools students accepted wait list positions at, they might think I'm not committed to going which in turn hurts my chances of being admitted.</p>
<p>Put yourself on all the lists. Chances of getting off any one of them are small so you need to have every advantage you can get, especially if you need financial aid.</p>
<p>I don’t think they’d find out your other waitlists unless you told them</p>
<p>Okay. Just accepted my position on their wait list.</p>
<p>Quick question about the wait list: As of now, I’m on the wait list for University of Michigan, New York University, and Emory University. I’m looking to study business so getting accepted into either one of these schools would be great, but my dad is really pushing me towards going to Emory if I get accepted. I’m not sure if this applies to the other schools, but Emory has a policy where they give you three days after they have admitted you to either accept it or reject it. I was wondering if I were to be accepted off of the wait list for NYU or U of M (and this three day policy applied to them as well), would it be worth it to reject their admission in hopes of getting accepted to Emory or should I just jump on the first acceptance I get and not risk the fact that I might have to wait until June to find out none of the schools want me? Just so you know, I have Fordham and Northeastern as back up schools. They gave me scholarships as well, both more than 15k.</p>
<p>Forst, does money matter? NYU and Michigan are unlikely to match what the others gave you and I don’t know about Emory.</p>
<p>No, it would be crazy to pass up any of the 3 waiting for the others. If you later get into the others you can still attend. You may lose a deposit, but you can always accept the later school and this waitlist season could go well into the summer.</p>
<p>First, make absolutely sure that you accept the offer from either Fordham or Northeastern and send in your deposit BY MAY 1 so that you know that you are going to college somewhere. Because it is very likely that you won’t get off any of the wait lists. (Only a very small fraction of the students on any wait list ever actually get in.)</p>
<p>Then, if and when you receive the call from one of your waitlisted schools, you can decide to accept or reject it at that time. If you accept, then you will have to tell Fordham or Northeastern that you’ve changed your mind and you will lose your deposit.</p>
<p>And even if you accept that call off the wait list (say, it’s NYU), if one of the other schools calls you after that, you can still accept the second one and just tell NYU you’ve changed your mind. Of course, you will lose the NYU deposit too.</p>
<p>The rule is that you can only accept one school’s offer at a time, but being on a wait list doesn’t count (because that school hasn’t given you an offer yet). You can accept one school’s offer after you have already accepted another’s – as long as you notify the first school that you’ve changed your mind – because it’s still just one at a time.</p>
<p>Thanks for the clarification. </p>
<p>I still have hope that I’ll make it. 
But if it doesn’t happen, I’ll just have to make the most of what I have.</p>
<p>For your first-choice school, write them a letter saying that they are your first choice. Problem solved.</p>
<p>For your other schools, don’t be dishonest. If they think you’re not committed to going, then they’re right.</p>
<p>Personally, I was waitlisted at Chicago … but I don’t truly want to go there because my interests don’t really entirely match the school (I’m into econ/math or engineering/business … but I absolutely LOVE Chicago’s teaching philosophy + academic environment), so I sent in my deposit for Michigan, but I also chose to stay on the waitlist. The thing is that I didn’t write the letter like I did after being deferred from EA. </p>
<p>SO: Write a letter to your first-choice telling them why you want to really go and that you’re really really interested in going there, and stay on the WLs at all the other schools, but do NOT write letters from them, because it’s kinda wrong morally to tell them that you’re committed to going, so if they offer you a spot and you decline, it’s just cut-throat, because they could have given that spot to someone who truly wanted it. </p>
<p>And of course, make an enrollment deposit at a school that you’ve been accepted into and you know you’ll survive there, even if you don’t truly like it there.</p>
<p>Oops. I sent a letter to both Emory and NYU. I’m really unsure of which one is my top choice. My dad really wants me to go to Emory due to its rep, but for some reason, I’m being drawn into going to NYU. Something about the city and the school got me all excited when I visited. I haven’t visited Emory yet so I’m not sure if I"ll feel the same way, but I’m visitng this week so we’ll see. </p>
<p>Also, the letter I sent to them. After reading on this board about committing and all that, I really was second guessing the strength of my letter. When I reread it about a week after I sent it, I felt like it had more of a “you can admit me if you want” attitude as opposed to a “I am 100% certain that I want to go to your school” attitude. Would it be okay if I sent in another letter expressing a stronger desire to attend each school? I basically used the same letter, changed the name of the school, and sent them to NYU and Emory.</p>
<p>“Also, the letter I sent to them. After reading on this board about committing and all that, I really was second guessing the strength of my letter. When I reread it about a week after I sent it, I felt like it had more of a “you can admit me if you want” attitude as opposed to a “I am 100% certain that I want to go to your school” attitude. Would it be okay if I sent in another letter expressing a stronger desire to attend each school? I basically used the same letter, changed the name of the school, and sent them to NYU and Emory.”</p>
<p>Bump</p>