Hello everyone! I’m new here and would like to ask what I should do now that I’ve gotten my high school private school applications back and not a single one has been an accept.
The schools I applied to were
Andover: waitlist
Deerfield: waitlist
Exeter:rejected
Lawrenceville: waitlist
Choate:rejected
St Pauls: waitlist
I’ve searched for help around the Internet but all I could find was advice for those that had a school that had accepted them. I’m wondering why I’ve been treated like this and if there is anything I could do to get myself off of some of those waitlists.
Thanks a bunch!
By the way I’m an Asian male who is an international student. Scored 99 on ssat and has pretty good grades as well as doing quite a lot of community work and an active member of my school community. I play ice Hockey on the Singapore national team and also am grade 6 this year on trombone.
Ultimately, you cannot bank on getting off of the waitlist as the chances of getting off of the waitlist is incredibly slim and in some cases zero if the school overestimates its yield. The only thing you can do is accept a spot on the waitlist and move on. I understand that this is a tough and disappointing outcome, but if you really want to go to boarding school, you must find a plan-B, I have linked boarding schools with rolling admissions/that are still accepting applications that you can apply to:
The answer you receive is not going to change by asking the question more than once. If you want to hold onto hope on getting off the waitlist, that is your choice but if you truly want to go to boarding school I suggest you look at the above link.
@Saucerking27 I also want to address your statement of “being teated like this.” I understand that you are disappointed with your results and I recognize that this is a tough situation you are in. However, it was you and your families decision to apply only to most highly selective schools without, I assume, a strong back up (public school, private school in Singapore, safety boarding school, etc.) You have not been “treated” in anyway that is out of the norm. There is no way anyone can apply to the most selective schools and expect acceptances only to claim that they were treated unfairly after not being accepted. There are thousands of applicants applying to these schools and it was your decision to not broaden your net, the schools are not expected to treat you differently. You are clearly qualified, however, there were just applicants the schools felt fit them better, to claim that you were being treated incorrectly by being waitlisted at all the schools you applied to is a misrepresentation of the entire admissions process. I hope you take the advice that has been offered by members of the CC community and look at the schools with rolling admissions. Again, I hate to sound so blunt, but this is the reality of the situation.
*@skieurope: I’m not a hundred percent sure, but I think this should be merged with the wait list thread.
As the OP is an international student, I’m assuming that a slight translation error made that sound the way it did. If not, refer to post #2.
As for understanding the “how”, all of the schools on your list are highly selective AND it is even more difficult for an international student, particularly coming from a relatively over represented region of the world. If you happened to need financial aid, you’d have been in the most selective bucket of all. You took a swing for the fences approach and I’m sorry it didn’t work out. In the coming months, you just have decide if you are going to stick with a local school option, reapply with a swing for the fences approach, or reapply broadly in hopes of securing a spot at a US boarding school, regardless of its name. Keep your chin up and best of luck!
I just wanted to say that I’m on the same boat as you! Maybe you didn’t hear already but it is extremely hard to get in being an international student needing FA. Though schools like Andover and Exeter don’t say so, many schools deliberately say on their website that their funds for international students are “limited” or that they will not offer it. So don’t blame yourself for your results, because it is not because of you, but the position you are born into. That being said, if you want to attend a BS, reapply next year or apply to a school that is really positive about funding international students. Also, if you do go to a local school, perhaps there are national/corporate scholarships that you could apply for next year? I’m not really sure but… anyways, good luck!
BTW I applied two years in a row and have ended with rejects/waitlists both years.
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As indicated above, and in my pinned post that has “Read This” in the header, there is a WL thread. At this point, I can’t imagine any unique questions relating to WL (and this question is not one of them) that require 87 million separate threads, so all discussion should happen there. Closing.
