Waitlisted at Princeton

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<p>No. What you do is choose the school that you probably will end up attending. Don't fall too much in love with your waitlisted schools. Send in deposit, etc. (except for some like Haverford, it doesn't have a deposit, and wants you to ask for an extension extend).</p>

<p>THEN, if you get in, you can accept the offer (if you haven't fallen more in love with the school you sen the deposit too). You have to loose your deposit (small $$$ in comparison to the total cost). The schools know that they will loose a couple of students each year due to waitlists, and they then take some off of their waitlists, in a game of "round robin," as someone here called it.</p>

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<p>Is there anyone that is going to remove their name from the wait list. If so, for what school? </p>

<p>im removing it. for stanford.</p>

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<p>I am too - for God, for Country, and...for YALE. :D</p>

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<p>Gatsby- let me know if you're going to write a poem. I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet, but we should make sure our submissions don't overlap :-)</p>

<p>I wrote a poem yesterday for Columbia. It starts out pretty good, but then sort of spirals into cheesy desperation. I'm not sure if/how I'm going to change the ending.</p>

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<p>If they decided not to accept us off the waitlist, will they send us a rejection letter so we aren't left hanging around?...lol I don't know how much more waithing I can take!</p>

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<p>Bally, don't wait. Set yourself up for opportunity by accepting the spot and move on as if it didn't happen.</p>

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<p>I don't know, but I assume the waitlist is ranked. Kind of how they have an idea of what deferrees from the ED round they're going to keep an extra eye on. Maybe not ranked, but there's going to be a certain number that are in more serious contention that the others</p>

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<p>Does anyone know where I can find the contact info for a regional admissions rep?</p>

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<p>Princeton keeps on saying that it doesnt have regional reps whenever I call them</p>

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<p>Same here, akash. However, I keep hearing these mysterious regional reps mentioned...</p>

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<p>do you really want to be any college's second choice?</p>

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<p>Wondering the same. There must be SOME specific person that is best to contact, otherwise all of the extra info could just go floating around unrealized.</p>

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<p>thats what my guidance counselor said.</p>

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<p>"do you really want to be any college's second choice?"</p>

<p>lol its not anything personal? lol.</p>

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<p>yeah I certainly wouldnt mind being Princeton's "second" choice</p>

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<p>celebrian, THE LIST IS NOT RANKED (it says so on the letter and an admissions rep told me on the phone).</p>

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<p>So what do they do...pick names out of hat? There MUST be some sort of logic to it.</p>

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<p>No, the woman told me they read everyone again, like a virtual second round...which I believe because there will come a day when they will know how many kids they are looking for and they can reread the couple hundred with that number in mind, just like a mini regular round or an ED round.</p>

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<p>This is why I call it a virtual second chance...and given that they seem to have taken 10% in the recent years in which they took any, you have essentially been granted an extra round with a better accept rate tahn the round that just landed you there.</p>

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<p>"The process of selection from the wait list will follow the process of admission...who isn't coming and what role were they expected to play in the community"</p>

<p>This is what was told to me by a Princeton alumni who is in charge of arranging local interviews...basically, they will look at whether they need athletes, musicians, artists, minorities, or a higher SAT average, and if you fulfill that need, then its your lucky day!:)</p>