<p>did anyone else receive the letter asking if you want to stay on the waitlist until July 1st? I'm wondering if everyone on the waitlist got this and if anyone has actually been admitted off of it yet...</p>
<p>I guess I'm really asking if the letter is a good or a bad sign!</p>
<p>I got it too. I am an international student so the probability of me getting off the waiting list almost tends to zero 
However I think, that the letter is no sign. I guess everybody must have gotten it. Also, I presume it’s because they don’t want to accept anybody off the list who won’t attend W&L. You know, plenty of kids probably accept their waiting list place when they get their decisions but later decide to go somewhere else and don’t bother to remove their name from the waiting list.
Good Luck :)</p>
<p>They and many schools of their size offer Wait List spots to betwen 1500 and 2000 applicants. Between 500 and 700 accept positions on it. The number of those they (and other schools like them) take from the WL varies but seems to run between 50 and 100+ each year. That is fairly typical of these highly selective schools. Last year Princeton (obviously, a more selective school) took somethoing like 150 from the WL and well into June (a friend’s daughter got in June 15). So, if you are interested in W&L, send them a letter stating so. You never know what might happen.</p>
<p>It’s definitely not a bad sign! My D was waitlisted at W&L four years ago. When she first received the WL notice, she wrote to the admissions office, thanking them for a spot on the wait list, etc. Each time she received a letter or post card asking if she wanted to remain on the WL, she would write a hand-written note to admissions, telling them that W&L was still her first choice, etc. Of course, she had made a deposit at a school where she was accepted.</p>
<p>About mid-May, she received a call from W&L offering her a spot! So, don’t be completely discouraged- people actually DO get pulled from the wait list!</p>
<p>P.S. My D is graduating from W&L in two weeks!</p>
<p>Hi All - My daughter was WL’d on 3/25…immediately sent an email thanking the admission office for all the communication through the process (which was terrific), and the offer to remain on the wl. Then after a week or so, she sent the admission rep from our area an email to “keep in touch”. She also filled out the question that came with the email, that I am sure everyone got, about what made you WANT to go to W and L, and why you felt it was a good fit. We came home from a trip over her April break to find a Fed Ex’d acceptance letter and info regarding Accepted Students Day on our front steps !! She and I traveled to W and L, for ASD, fell in love and accepted a spot in the class of 2015 !!! After looking at well over a dozen colleges with her (I think the total number was 16 between my husband and I), I must say that W and L gave us a comforting sense of community and commitment to there students, that I didn’t feel in many other colleges. Communication via email and writing…is important. Tell them why they are a “perfect fit” for your child…and why your child is a “perfect fit” for them. They are a small, personal, traditional school. It appears to me that they really want the students who really want to go there. Good luck.</p>
<p>sailgal33: I read somewhere that around 500+ kids attended the ASD. W&L has a class size of 475. Honestly, the odds of getting off the waiting list doesn’t look good to me.
Congratulations on your daughter’s acceptance. W&L is a wonderful school without any doubt. If they accepted her in mid April, they must REALLY want her 
Btw, did you require FA?</p>
<p>Benzene27 - At ASD, the president said there were about 240 families…no where near 500 !we all fit into the theater. We did not apply/qualify for FA. I have heard from many schools that that is a factor in some coming off of wait lists. We have no idea what made them offer admission to my daughter, but we/she is thrilled. Good luck, we will be thinking good thoughts. It is agonizing…we know… as my daughter was wl’d at over 1/2 the schools she applied to, but we have already heard from two, so there is always hope !!!</p>
<p>Oh, okay. 240 sounds pretty reasonable. I don’t know where I read about the 500 people part. Thank you
I’m really hoping to hear from W&L this spring. It’ll be terrific to get off the waiting list ;)</p>
<p>I have got a problem here: I wrote some emails to W&L but they gave me no responses…which makes me feel that they had already abandoned me…</p>
<p>Hey, zzlbigbeard! Haha, no they’re probably just extremely! May, is definitely the craziest month for most colleges. Are you an international student too?</p>
<p>*extremely busy.
Sorry about the typo.</p>
<p>W&L is not going to the waiting list atleast for now.</p>
<p>They may have backed off taking from the Wait List for now, but will reopen it when other schools higher in the pecking arder fill slots with Wait List students. That is happening now, as a place like UVA has just taken a friend’s daughter off their WL (last Friday).</p>