<p>Argh, my Williams chances dwindle with every report of a waitlister getting called… it’s probably time to give up on this…</p>
<p>hey guys! hang in there!</p>
<p>I was accepted RD but I declined to enroll on april 30 so there’s another spot for you ;)</p>
<p>I sent in a handwritten note explaining how difficult the decision was for me to decline and I got an email reply from the dean! such a personal college</p>
<p>good luck!</p>
<p>Hey superfly!!! I got a question for you, did they give you financial aid, because they are known to give little to non financial aid, so I was wondering how was your financial aid.</p>
<p>@alex911:</p>
<p>Not sure where you are getting your financial aid information from, but Williams is known for being very generous with financial aid. Our son received the largest package from Willams, with no loans, out of the 9 schools to which he applied. Many of his friends at Williams also reported generous financial aid packages.</p>
<p>alex-</p>
<p>I didn’t apply for financial aid because my family makes 250k+
however, williams is known for giving generous aid</p>
<p>it appears that alex911 is an International student that has chosen to attend Grinnell…</p>
<p>maybe he is talking about the aid that Williams gives to International students…</p>
<p>I am also waitlisted at williams :/</p>
<p>My counselor called Williams and they said that they were going to be calling people off the waitlist last friday. So, if we havent heard by now, I dont know how much hope there is left. 
but, maybe some of those people will say no and then we can get in!</p>
<p>Oh God, this waiting is killing me!! but Mzactress don’t give up, for what I know they will be looking at their waitlist in a rolling basis so as late as June 30th they can call us up!!!</p>
<p>Hey, I was a waitlisted applicant and was offered admission a couple of weeks ago. I was really excited and accepted right away, but a few days ago, I got a call from Princeton and will be going there. I called Williams today to let them know.</p>
<p>This means there’s hope! Good luck!</p>
<p>Esdienti, I believe that you should writeg to the director of admissions at Williams. Tell him your history as you have told here and try to reach his heart. It may actually work. Show him/her your strong will to attend Williams and all the efforts you have made to get accepted into a college in the U.S. : the classes at Harvard, the absence of money to eat…
By October of last year we were waiting my son’s greencard being delivered and nothing. I knew that there was no problem at all with the process once I had received mine and we went to the interview together and everything was just right. After I called Immigration and even went there, we realized that the agent might have forgotten my son’s papers sitting on the desk. I wrote to the agent and explained that if my son did not receive his papers in time he might not be able to apply for college. I included copies of scholarship he was already offered by RPI, honor society stuff, etc. One day after the agent received my letter he/she sent us my son’s greencard.
He got accepted into Williams College among other great schools. He chose Williams. I cried for like a week. Happiness.
I wish you might be friends with my son at Williams.
May God protect you and bless you with good news. Don’t give up.
Keep me posted.</p>
<p>LilyClark, thank you so much for your post!! you almost made me cried, I loved your words… I actually sent a letter to the director of admissions, however, I didn´t told him about my lack of money and all the hardships I went thru when I was alone in Boston (I didn´t want him to think that I was dramatic or probably trying to take advantage of my situation)… it´s so lovely how my story has touched many people´s hearts in this thread, and this is kind of my shelter, everybody around me is telling me to give up and to forget that I am on this waiting list, but the thing is that they don´t know what this opportunity represents in my life, non of them have ever been in the United States so they don´t know what I am wishing for, and many of them haven´t even gone to college so they don´t know how it feels like, and I guess they are trying to protect me from desilusion, but as you say I am not going to give up, I pray God every night and I positive!!!</p>
<p>I would love to be friends with your son!! I am pretty sure you have done an incredible job and have raised a terrific man!! I would post you with information!! by the way where are you from??</p>
<p>Thank you once again.</p>
<p>Hi Esdienti! I am glad you did not give up. Sent him another letter. Show him my words for you in this forum. Copy them and even your response to me that you were afraid to sound dramatic and all that. I know that people have hearts and at Williams I have this feeling that they are special. When I went there they were so nice.
Keep trying. Do it now. I am praying for you. God will respond it. I am pretty sure. My email is : <a href="mailto:lillynytimes@hotmail.com">lillynytimes@hotmail.com</a>. Please write me. I want to see you attending Williams and I am pretty sure I will visit you there in October (the first thing for parents of the new students). I can be like your parent too.
Lily</p>
<p>Hey everyone I just got and email saying that they are not going to take anyone else from the Waiting List!! I guess this is it for us waiting!! anyway thank you so much for all being here and support us!!!</p>
<p>Hey I know this is a very old thread but I just wanted to make sure that people who will apply in the next months and even years are able to find this while looking for colleges, some very intense months after I was informed that I wasn’t pulled off the waiting list, I decided to re-apply. It wasn’t easy because almost nobody thought it was a good idea, but I got some support from very nice people as you can see in the previous post, I never lose faith in myself and so I decided to try one more time, and guess what? I was admitted last Wednesday under ED… I thought it was important to show many young people like myself that if you persevere you may conquer!!! and I wanted to post a last happy message in here, to give this story a happy ending!</p>
<p>Esdienti, Thanks for bumping this thread, as I read it I was really pulling for you and I’m happy and proud that you hung in there and that it paid off for you. We all love happy endings.</p>
<p>Wow congratz! What an inspiration :)</p>
<p>AMAZING! Congratulations! See you in 2014… I hope.</p>
<p>Fantastic!</p>
<p>Hey esdienti!! I haven’t opened cc for almost a very long time, and I decided to do it tonight and I found the amazing news that you got it!! wowwwww!! I also saw in other tread that you got good FA, great. I’m so happy, I don’t know you, but you seem like an amazing person who has the drive and courage to make his dreams come true even when them seem impossible… you said you wanted to give it a happy ending, but I think you just opened another chapter in your life. May God bless you in all your endeavors.</p>
<p>Really really admire your efforts esdienti.</p>