Waitlist/Denial at Safeties?

Applying to College
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<p>My daughter was waitlisted at Syracuse. This was her reach school. She was accepted at Drexel with scholarship money, UMass Amherst and was pulled off the waitlist for University of Vermont. </p>

<p>The way we got her off the waitlist was to have her counselor call the admissions department to say that if she was accepted, she would definitely attend and that we would pay the full tuition. We also wrote a letter (from the parents) and she wrote her own letter stating the same thing.</p>

<p>My sister-in-law has a friend who works on a waitlist committee for one of the top schools, and this is what she told us. There are individuals whose job it is to choose which students to pull from the waitlists. As it turns out, these particular individuals receive points for every student they accepted from the waitlist who attends. So it would make sense to accept the ones who say that they will definitely attend. </p>

<p>Also, I should say that even though we said we would pay the tuition in full, she received a substantial grant from Syracuse which brings the total cost of attending down BELOW the cost of her attending the other two state schools I mentioned above.</p>

<p>It’s a big game they play…</p>

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<p>No difference. Why would there be?</p>

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<p>My previous post was in response to BIGU212</p>

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<p>Hoedown</p>

<p>I agree with you. However, my daughter has alumni, very high SATs, 3.2 GPA, fantastic essay, lots of diverse extracurriculars. She was initially waitlisted and was very upset as she saw it as a rejection. Then we had the counselor call the admissions office and we sent letters, both from us, the parents, and my daughter) saying that she would definitely attend if accepted, AND that we would pay the full tuition. She also received a huge grant, even though she was initially waitlisted, in an amount that brings the cost down BELOW UMass Amherst and Univ. Vermont, her two other favorites.</p>

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<p>All the people you are commenting to posted on this thread 5 years ago. I haven’t checked their posting records but they are most likely long gone.</p>