<p>Yeah. It’s an awesome sport. It’s definitely worth trying out. I’m fortunate enough to live in a great area where rowing is easily doable. I really wished LC had crew…</p>
<p>If they come at all, calls will come over this weekend–Admissions needs to tally up the yesses, count the beds, and consult the different list of waitlist (9th grade boys, 11 grade girls, etc) and then they will reach out if they have spaces. Remember, if they offer you a spot, you don’t have to answer right on the phone–ask for a reasonable amount of time to get back to them so you too can huddle up with family and decide.</p>
<p>There is no one way the schools progress through their waitlist, if at all, much less call this weekend. If lucky enough to get taken off one school’s waitlist, I would be reluctant to wait and see if you happen to hear from another school. Less than 20% get off the waitlists and there are different parameters for each school. Plenty of siblings on waitlists. It’s not a poker game.</p>
<p>Most schools have extended their deadline to be Monday the 11th this year and I know many people who are undecided. If you are waiting to put a deposit on an accepted spot to see if you got off the waitlist somewhere else, I would call the school and find out what time on Monday you need to let them know by and if an email / call with the contract put in the mail Monday would work.</p>
<p>As ops said, you will probably not get a call until Monday if it’s going to happen at all before another deposit is due. Yes, there has been some movement already, but most will happen Monday or later.</p>
<p>I know one family a few years ago that was heading out to deliver contract to 2nd choice school in the afternoon when 1st choice school called them. There was FA involved and 2nd choice school gave them another few days to decide (They picked 1st choice).</p>
<p>DS is waitlisted at St. Andrews. If he is not offered admission off the waitlist, he will apply to more boarding schools for sophomore year. Meanwhile he’s registered at a local private high school. Thanks for the helpful thread. I found it helpful to see the college counseling advice St. Andrews gives to their students who’ve been placed on a college waitlist:</p>
<p>How can I maximize my chances of getting accepted off a waitlist, while having a happy spring and summer?</p>
<h1>Return any waiting list card(s) immediately to the college(s) in which you are interested.</h1>
<h1>Let us know the schools on whose waiting list you are remaining; we will keep fighting for you at those colleges.</h1>
<h1>Fall in love with one of the colleges to which you have been accepted. Balance your commitment to this institution in your mind and heart with maintaining your hope about the waiting list. It feels great to be looking forward to what you’ve got, and to see the waiting-list school as a possible bonus.</h1>
<h1>Be patient. Be ready for news (or no news) to come at any time from May through August.</h1>
<h1>Within the week of getting your news, send a draft to your college counselor of a letter to the college(s) expressing your continued interest in the college and updating them about fresh accomplishments and enthusiasms you have experienced since your last communication with them. This letter can talk about your excitement about the college, a specific academic interest or course that is inspiring you and can translate to the college in question, and highlights from your extracurricular life at St. Andrew’s. If you indicate to your top choice school that they are your number one school and that you would certainly attend if admitted, this can help draw their attention.</h1>
<h1>You may wish to ask a teacher whose class you are enjoying and who has not previously written for you to write a letter for you. Check with us if you want advice on whether or whom to ask.</h1>
<h1>Finish the spring semester on a high note. Your third and fourth quarter grades and comments may really help!</h1>
<h1>Keep us informed of every new success in your life. Just send us a quick e-mail or come on down with the details.</h1>
<p>Thanks onmywayde - very helpful! Good luck to your family…</p>
<p>Now wait a moment…there has been movement off the waitlist ALREADY??? Although I remember one school’s WL info telling me that it is, “Very rare” for that school to take ppl off waitlists before April 11, is it possible that many people will get off the waitlist before that date? I am no longer in the running for admission in SPS, but I am very curious, was the person who was taken off a very special case, like a standout athlete?</p>
<p>I posted a similar thread on waitlists without realizing that this one was up. Sorry about that! It makes you realize just how busy an admission office must be. Where’s “GemmaV” when you need him/her? 
Are you out there “GemmaV?”</p>
<p>I just went to my inbox and found this letter from one of the schools I was WLed from:</p>
<p>The Admission Office just came out of an enrollment meeting. We still do not have enough information to determine if admission offers will be made from the Wait List prior to or on April 11th.</p>
<p>As our enrollment results come in, we will continue to monitor and update whenever possible. Sunday night or Monday morning another update will be sent. Again, I realize many families have decisions to make by Monday thus we will do our best to keep you up to date.</p>
<p>We appreciate your patience.</p>
<p>Does this mean that the yield is very exact and they will not go to the WL, or does this mean that some people are taking a LOT of time to choose before April 11th? What are your interpretations on this? (Personally, I’m leaning towards the lot of time factor.)</p>
<p>Additionally, I have another question. ops mentions that their are a lot of siblings on waitlists. Do schools tend to give preference to the sibling, or a person with no connections to BS. (I have no sibling, fyi.) </p>
<p>Just something else I noticed-the list of matriculations for the prep schools on CC looks a little bare this year…</p>
<p>Please keep your fingers crossed!</p>
<p>My read is that this school (School X) will have openings, and they’re hoping that students who have a bird in the hand might wait a bit longer to see if the bird in the bush (i.e. School X) will come out and perch.</p>
<p>Do you mind pm’ing me which school it is classicalmama ? </p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>swissbrit</p>
<p>Sorry–that wasn’t clear–I was just naming circlemidnight’s school School X. No idea what it was. However, if this year were like last year (which it is not!), I’d say that a significant number of waitlist calls will be made just before the deadline. Boarding schools want the best candidates off their waitlists, and they know that many of the students they would most want probably have acceptances in hand.</p>
<p>Wait, but the letter says, “We still do not have enough information to determine if admission offers will be made from the Wait List prior to or on April 11th.” However, they also said that, “Sunday night or Monday morning another update will be sent.” So will WL offers come on the last min for those accepted to a school but still waiting on waitlists? In addition, what would happen to those that have only been WL’ed? (I’ve been lurking on this board quite a while before I signed up, and I have never seen this amount of WL.) I mean, many people are saying that yield was very conservative this year. Letting people off the WL that have already been accepted (I am NOT bitter, please be clear on this) would muddle up the pool, in my opinion. (Of course, I am not an expert on this.)</p>
<p>Some schools published the admit data by gender and by grade. From this you can get some idea of whether there’s been some conservatism. Some schools have experienced rising yields in recent years and may need to adjust. For 9th grade, you can look at how many acceptances there were compared to recent years. For 10th and beyond, you can do the same plus analyze differences by gender that may have been caused by imbalances in the prior year’s incoming 9th grade class. Hope that isn’t too murky.</p>
<p>They don’t necessarily know who has an offer and who doesn’t–my point is just that if they can make an offer before or on April 11, they probably will, because they know that a significant portion of their waitlist will commit to another school after that point, giving your School X fewer qualified candidates to cherry-pick from.</p>
<p>I see your point about muddling up the pool. However, the school may see it this way; a waitlisted student who was accepted elsewhere but chose to stay on the waitlist probably did so because School X was one of his/her top choices. And that student would need to make the decision quickly since his/her acceptance to the less desirable School Y times out that very day. So the already-accepted (to School Y) student is probably more likely to yield quickly to School X than the student who was waitlisted everywhere, gets off two waitlists, and then wants to muddle around, think things over, and revisit before deciding. </p>
<p>I’m starting to sound like an Exeter word problem…</p>
<p>Does anyone know what would happen if the admissions office called you to take you off the waitlist but you were unable to receive the call? Do they follow up on an email or do they just move on because they have many other applicants waiting? I want to know because my parents almost never carry their cell phones around with them.</p>
<p>^ good question, i’d like to know about that too! my home phone is ancient and kind of spotty at times, so…</p>
<p>Yeah, anyone know about that? I live in China, so I don’t know if they got the right country code + area code from my application. xD</p>
<p>I don’t know, but perhaps they would send you an email to arrange a call? (if you’re an international applicant) since there are time zone differences.</p>
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<p>Oh for goodness sakes - if a school wants to contact an applicant, they’ll find a way to do it! This is not one of those radio game shows where if they don’t reach the first person they call at 10 am, they move on to the next person at 10:01!</p>
<p>The unfortunate news is that the vast majority of waitlisted candidates will not be contacted . . . but if you are one of the lucky ones, then you can be sure the AOs will persist until they get ahold of you!</p>
<p>And remember that some of those calls may not come until May, June, July or even August! So don’t change your schedules just so you can sit by the phone. Unless both your phone and your email get changed (or you go for a two-month trek in the Himalayas where you have no access to either!), you have no need to worry.</p>