Waitlist: Advice for a Crap-Shot

<p>Hey,</p>

<p>I'm a prospective Int'l student from Australia. I got waitlisted at Princeton, and I want to solicit some advice on what to do, since there's not much of that down under.</p>

<p>A teacher is telling me to write a cover-letter. For one, I don't quite understand what a cover-letter is, and secondly, I don't know who to send it to and via what medium. Email? Hard-copy? With the little cardboard slip?</p>

<p>Apart from the cover-letter, is there anything else I can do/send? And how should I pen one?</p>

<p>I'll provide more specific details about my application later, since it might be related to what I mention in the cover-letter.</p>

<p>Any help will be greatly appreciated (desperately so)</p>

<p>Cheers.</p>

<p>P.S. You might see a similar thread in the Williams forum. That's because Williams is the other waitlisted school that I'd really like to go to.</p>