<p>I know that Haverford has 10 spaces for the waitlist this year and that they were just sitting down to review them last Friday, but has anyone actually gotten off yet??? I'm not holding my breath for a spot, but just curious.</p>
<p>oh gosh…i haven’t heard anything. i’d love to though. though someone else on this board seems to have gotten off the waitlist as of last week…?</p>
<p>How do you know that they have 10 spaces for the waitlist?</p>
<p>I called the admissions office and that’s what they told me…</p>
<p>i know this sounds kind of neurotic, but more and more people keep joining the facebook group. When I first checked, maybe May 5th or so, there were 279 people in the haverford 2013 group, and now there are 300, for a class of 325…obviously its not a very good way to tell, but i dont know if this is people finally deciding they can go, people just joining the group, or if its possible people have come off the wait list? maybe haverford is still negotiating with accepted students about FA and stuff.</p>
<p>i got off the waitlist last tuesday. i’m going to attend. just wanted to let you guys know and i hope you guys the best of luck.</p>
<p>These waiting lists are emotionally and psychically taxing. If indeed it is true that there were only 10 waitlist spots for the class 2013, and it has been over 2 weeks since the admissions office started filling them, the odds seem unpromising by now for my daughter. Rats. Haverford was the one place where she had that “falling-in-love-with-this-community” feeling when she toured. I easily understand why. She would accept an offer in a flash if one came this summer, but that looks like a heck of a long shot by now.
Oh, the sting of unrequited love. Would it have made a difference if she had gushed uncharacteristically on her essay? Did it send an unintended signal when grandparental medical issues prevented her follow-up return trip for an interview? Are French, Latin, flute, piano, and theater not exotic enough passions to be eye-catching in this applicant pool? I don’t suppose we’ll ever know the reasons. Who among us on the outside can fully fathom the inscrutable ways of an admissions committee? Alas.</p>
<p>It appears that girls had a particularly difficult time with admissions this year. There are just too many of us. Truly great stuldents with very high standardized test scores from my high school are attending colleges that, in a typical year would be considered second or third tier schools. These students are devastated that after all of the work they have done - AP classes everywhere - they are relegated to second rate colleges. </p>
<p>As far as the waitlist goes, I found it offensive that a college would waitlist me. I understand the reasons - too many qualified students, geographic diversity, pieces of the puzzle, etc., but still - I had strong feelings that if they didn’t really want me, then I didn’t want them. Probably I took it much too personally, but they were responding to my personal application - so how else to take it? Besides, I didn’t want the process to drag on any further. At some point - enough.</p>
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<p>If you take a look at all of the people who have joined the group, some of them are upperclassmen who joined to answer some of our questions. The Facebook group is up to 315 at my last count, but about 10-15 of them are upperclassmen.</p>
<p>I got a notice in the mail today saying they had filled the class.</p>