<p>Is it appropriate to inform Stanford of other honor's/scholarships I have won to help them decide to get me off the friggin' waiting list? I was named a Cornell Tradition Fellow, given to 150/3000 students. Is it better to just list the importance of the award, rather than the specifics? Any other info, (besides awards, etc.)? I also wrote a comical poem. If anyone wanted to read it, I could PM it. I actually really dislike poetry and want to be a physics major. Thus, they will think it is cool coming from me, or lame, because it actually is. </p>
<p>Thanks for the help. I want to Priority the letter tomorrow!</p>
<p>I posted this on the Stanford board, but I tend to trust some of the seasoned adults in the room.</p>
<p>I don't think telling them that you have such an amazing opportunity at Cornell will help you get off of their waiting list. Actually it might hurt. Imagine how many students might have NO amazing opportunities.</p>
<p>Should I send in a letter of recommendation or just simply state in a letter that I feel further letters will only confirm what they already know.</p>
<p>Neither - if the letter of recommendation WILL only confirm what they already know. Can you get a letter advising of something they DON'T already know?</p>
<p>New awards, honors, and perhaps one "cute" thing, such as The [Senior] Most Likely to Design the Transporter award. It you get an article in the local paper or the equivalent, send that too.</p>
<p>IMO it would be ok to tell them about Cornell, because you can follow it up by saying "Standford is still my first choice!"</p>
<p>You have NOTHING to lose by keeping "your face" in front of them in the form of written laurels - best to send copies of the awards, letters, articles, whatever, and perhaps an email to your adcom for the 'human touch' item.</p>
<p>Not the time to hold back - even another rec is ok, I think, if it will add something special to your file.</p>
<p>Though I have not seen it, my advice to you is nevertheless: don't send the poem. What may seem comical to you probably isn't going to be well received by someone in admissions who's twice your age and with a different sense of humor. So don't send it.</p>
<p>After my son's EA deferral, his counselor suggested he send in a humorous poem he'd written, to show there was more to him than math and physics. He did, and was later accepted. I doubt the poem had a lot to do with it, but I think Jerew could have a counselor or other advisor (English teacher?) read the poem and see if s/he thinks it might be helpful.</p>
<p>There are two things involved in getting off the waitlist.</p>
<p>One is them is getting the college to GO to the waitlist in the first place. You have no control over that. It's all up to the deposits, which they're likely tallying right now.</p>
<p>The other, of course, is trying to be in the top group of people who get chosen if they DO get to it. I suppose you may be able to influence that with information that helps the college to reevaluate your candidacy or your interest.</p>
<p>But keep in mind that you could be #1 on the waitlist and still not be accepted.</p>
<p>Is it appropriate to make the honest appeal in the last sentece of my letter that:
"I might follow others in my family and attend Stanford University."</p>
<p>I think "other's" should be "others" Also, I don't get the "might"<br>
I would drop the legacy appeal because they probably already factored that in. Good luck!</p>
<p>Jerew, my daughter is a freshman at Stanford this year who was admitted from the waitlist last year. After she found out she was waitlisted, she wrote the admissions office a letter saying among other things that she would like to follow in the family tradition set by her father and her brother and assured them that she will attend Stanford if she is admitted from the waitlist. The happy ending is that she was.</p>
<p>Well, I decided not to risk it and faxed a letter without the legacy plug, but I did assure them that my decision to select Stanford at my first choice school was difficult because although it was my first choice, I realized that I would have to give up my scholarships at my current college. (Cornell, but I didn't tell them that)
Hopefully my deleting that part of the sentence will not make a difference. I just faxed it today.</p>
<p>I am hopeful for getting off the list, although I know the odds are slim to none.</p>