<p>mhmm, you are saying that, if a student has committed to another school, there is a point beyond which a school which goes to its waitlist will not allow the child to matriculate? And yet, last year, a student decided to attend SPS, although she was 8 days away from the start of the school year at Taft. <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-admissions/559859-help-i-dont-know-what-do.html#post1060930110[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/prep-school-admissions/559859-help-i-dont-know-what-do.html#post1060930110</a> Would that be a special case, because she had deep family connections to the school?</p>