<p>Hi, i’ve recently mailed out my letter to my admissions counselor. Although, i also wanted to email it to him. Should i wait a certain # of days after i mailed it out to email it? thanks in advance</p>
<p>my son is waitlisted at both his top 2 schools right now. in both cases the admissions counselors @ each school told him it was OK to contact them mid to late next week as they would have some idea on the waitlist situation by then. I’d stay in contact with your AC as much as you can. It seems my son’s like the email thing. I’m also one of those skeptical about having the GC run your attempt to “demonstrate continued emphasis in attending X.” like having your mom call someone you want to date…</p>
<p>Having your GC help out is not the same as having your parents do it. It is what GCs are paid to do. If they are doing their jobs, they should have more of an inside track than you. They could say many things and get info that you couldn’t get. Our GC got every kid off two years ago.</p>
<p>If your GC wouldn’t help out (like at many public schools), it is time to get your parents to help out. Your parents could do some leg work for you. I contacted my daughter’s top WL school to let them know I would be in the position to pay full fare and would be very supportive of our daughter to go to their school. Some parents have gone as far as scheduling additional interviews with adcom and were successful in getting their kid in.</p>
<p>Some good quotes in this article from admissions directors on how important it is to show continued (but not over the top) interest if on a waitlist: [Some</a> students hope to beat college waiting list - The Boston Globe](<a href=“http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2009/04/18/students_hope_to_beat_college_waiting_list/]Some”>http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2009/04/18/students_hope_to_beat_college_waiting_list/)</p>
<p>I hope I can get off the waitlist, but constant contacting with admission officials might be borderline stalkerish. Just be careful to contact them but not too much. You don’t want to seem crazy!</p>
<p>What do people think about visiting campuses and stopping by the admissions office just to say hello. I have read different things different places. Some places say don’t do it, especially if they specifically ask you not to come to campus, other places say it shows a certain level of commitment.</p>
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<p>I disagree with the whole “don’t stop by to say hello”. I was wait listed at the our top state university. I phoned my adcom. </p>
<p>I simply said that “I was wait listed, and plan on visiting the campus once more because should I not be accepted off the wait list, I would most definitely transfer because the school was my stepping stone to my future success. Because of this, I’m wondering if there was any time I could stop by, introduce myself and ask some questions about the wait list?” </p>
<p>He immediately rattled off open times and really encouraged me to do so. If he didn’t want me to come down or felt it would be of no help, he could have easily said he didn’t have any interview slots open.</p>
<p>Instead, I went down and spent forty minutes speaking with him not only about the university,why I should attend, how the wait list works, but options should I not be accepted for the fall. I was scared when he started talking about that. Before I left,he told me that by making the drive down, I was on the top of the wait list pile.</p>
<p>Now, its different with every school, but its definitely worth a phone call to see what’s up.</p>
<p>Any movement on the wailist front form any schools ??? I suppose most will take place after the May 1 deposit deadline …
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<p>My Son is waitlisted at Harvard. Not too many people would not want to go to Harvard, even if offered admissions off the waitlist.</p>
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<p>80% of the 29,000 people who applied to Harvard would succeed at Harvard (according to the Admissions Office). Around 2,000 of the 29,000 are admitted.</p>
<p>Once you are admitted, there is no difference on how the school treats you. At school, I can’t think of anyone who was ever asked “were you waitlisted?”.</p>
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<p>We did. I think it shows enthusiasm, but try not to make it gratuitous. We were going to visit a professor, so just stopped by the Admissions Office to say “hi”. We drove 1,000 miles to visit. Somehow it came up in the conversation. I didn’t realize it until today, but driving that far just to visit might have shown extra enthusiasm.</p>
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<p>That would be my strategy for more than one Waitlist School. Tell each school that you are on multiple waitlists, that you would accept that school, but, if offered admissions from another school, you would withdraw from the waitlist of the other schools. Maybe that would give schools an incentive to decide on you quickly.</p>
<p>Can anyone explain to me WHY exactly schools waitlist so much? My school (Stanford) waitlisted 5% of their 30,000 applicants. That’s 1,500 people, almost their entire class size. There’s no way Stanford’s yield will never drop below 50% so why waitlist so many people? How about waitlisting just 500 or something like that? Same thing goes for schools like Wash U who are seemingly notorious waitlisters.</p>
<p>Do schools gain something by waitlisting a lot?</p>
<p>Why do YOU think they do it? You want to go to Stanford. So, use your critical thinking skills…why would a school waitlist the same number of students as the size of a graduating class?</p>
<p>Honestly, I have no idea. 100 people at most would get taken off the waitlist. Why keep 600 more people around (those who accepted the original waitlist offer)? I don’t get it. Granted, I don’t know much about college admissions.</p>
<p>Well, they can’t “keep” anyone on the waitlist. It’s an entirely voluntary position. They “could” waitlist everyone who applies, I suppose, but they won’t because they want a firm commitment from the kids they have accepted by May 1st. Why do they waitlist that many people? Probably because they can. I wonder how that would work if a student who was accepted said, “I’m going to put you on my waitlist. I’ll be getting back to you sometime before the start of the fall term. Please indicate your willingness to stay on my waitlist and feel free to submit any materials you think might influence my position: please submit newest endowment numbers and current class yield as soon as they become available, as well as anything else you think might influence my decision. Please remember that most of the schools on the waitlist are qualified and this is in no way any indication of how I view your future as a going concern.” Sincerely, </p>
<p>Where else were you accepted?</p>
<p>Haha, yea the looks on their faces…</p>
<p>I got into GW, U Penn, Tufts, Wellesley, Claremont McKenna and I enrolled at Tufts. I love Tufts and I sometimes question why I decided to stay on at Stanny in the first place since it’s so hard to get off that damn list. Oh well.</p>
<p>tufts is a great school. Lots of fun AND a terrific education. Good luck to you!</p>
<p>Thanks! I was so excited about both schools. I set out telling myself, either Stanford or Tufts and I’ll be the happiest person alive 
Good luck to you too.</p>
<p>S was waitlisted at four places. He stayed on the waitlist at three places. He was going to write to two of the places with his three latest accomplishments (GC doesn’t call schools to advocate for waitlisted students), but now that he’s decided on his school, told me the other night that he “doesn’t care” anymore about the waitlist schools. </p>
<p>Since he needs finaid, chances are he would have been bypassed, anyway. </p>
<p>He’s now very happy with his choice. And so are we! Full (merit) ride, including tuition/books/fees/personal expenses. That means we can help him with law school!</p>
<p>my D was waitlisted at 4 places too! she stayed on all her waitlists and she got off one last week. However 2 weeks ago she paid her deposit to one which accepted her, we visited the place and she loved it so she declined the waitlist offer yesterday… she is still waiting to see if she will get off her dream school … otherwise she said she will be happy at the one she deposited!!</p>
<p>@ LavieEnchocolat: ur d heard abt waitlistalready? what school is ti?? isnt it too early??</p>