<p>My daughter was waitlisted at Olaf but has not received an acknowledgment of her desire to stay on the waitlist despite her having sent in the card saying she is interested to remain on the waitlist plus other emails to this effect. </p>
<p>Anyone with recent waitlist experience from Olaf? Did they treat you as a non person? Is it simply a nice way of rejecting the candidate? I think that they were pretty responsive until the waitlisting.</p>
<p>She also sent in an extra page saying how much she loves Olaf, along with youtube links of her great solo violin at her HS concert, and recent news clippings of her making state honors orchestra - including a front page article on her etc.</p>
<p>I got waitlisted...I originally campaigned aggressively to get in but that dropped off as I received rejections from other colleges and resigned myself to going to the community college in my town. I didn't get a response, positive or negative, but it might have been due to the sudden lack of communication from me. I have to say, though, that "nice way of rejection" or not, I'm not sure... it didn't stop my interest in St. Olaf because I've been accepted as a transfer for the fall.</p>
<p>Still. Keep it up. Be persistent. It's possible something WILL happen.</p>
<p>CALL admissions and talk to them. My admissions officer has been so polite and responsive to me that I cannot imagine that one would be ignoring your daughter so blatently. </p>
<p>In my experience with the admissions office, they much prefer to talk to students in person or over the phone than to e-mail. Every e-mail that I have sent has been replied to by a phone call rather than a virtual reply. </p>
<p>I don't have experience on the waitlist, but I would say that they are not "politely rejecting" kids by putting them on the waitlist. Many many colleges are waitlisting a lot of kids this year to try to keep class sizes small and I would not lost hope.</p>
<p>My daughter emailed the head of admissions (he was the author of the assignment to the waitlist ) and to the admissions officer who was formerly VERY responsive - all through emails. Yes, a phone call would be indicated now. </p>
<p>email is so much more convenient since admissions' hours are the same as the school hours. Taking a full AP load is real hard while trying to make a relationship to another entity that does not seem to want to be in the relationship - Olaf.</p>