<p>Hi, I have a child wait listed at 6 schools - just interested, has anyone started hearing anything yet? We got a nice letter from Choate explaining the process, but nothing specific as to our child.</p>
<p>heard that deerfield might make some calls tomorrow</p>
<p>In general, most schools do not go to the wait list until after April 10th.</p>
<p>I know this sounds stupied, BUT, do you wait at your house all day on the 10th to make sure you don't miss "the" call (if it comes :)) or do they call back/leave a message?</p>
<p>Not if you have Caller ID & an answering machine.But it is better to be at home as the caller may not leave a message in favor of moving on to the next waitlisted acceptee on the list.</p>
<p>forward your home phone to your cell phone - I agree with icy, you wouldn't want them to just go to the next name of the list.</p>
<p>They would really just move on the the next person on the list?
I would think that they know that most people work.<br>
That's what they do for the lottery to get Polar Express tickets, but for admissions to school, it seems odd to me.</p>
<p>I don't know that they would do that, of course -- but who knows. As arbitrary as some of the admission's decisions seem this year and how closely the kids on the waitlist probably are as far as stats and such, you just don't know.</p>
<p>You're right, guess if you can forward the calls, it's the best thing to do.</p>
<p>Waiting at home all day on the 10th is almost certain to bring disappointment. If past history is a guide, only some schools will go to their waitlists, and those spaces will be offered as unpredictably as they open, over the next five months. Please don't wait with all your might; focus on your present school and activities, and if it happens it happens....</p>
<p>we're waiting for the end of the day on 4.9 and sending out the chk and contract 4.10. We will call admissions office and tell them its coming and offer to fax copy of contract. We will not look back. The school that waitlisted our D has less than 48 hours to correct its mistake, then its too late, and another school wins the privilege of educating my daughter!</p>
<p>Laxtaxi: I like that attitude! Their loss that they didn't choose your daughter! Another school will be very lucky to have her.</p>
<p>And, I must agree with Quenn. Searches of past threads show only a very small amount of movement off the waitlists in the past.</p>
<p>I'm doing what laxtaxi is doing as well.</p>
<p>Although, I'm revisiting Deerfield tomorrow so I may find out when I leave. They're discussing the WL today and tomorrow.</p>
<p>Thanks BrooklynGuy. That's genuinely how I feel about it. D would be a great fit at the school we're giving < 48 hours to change its mind and would add a great deal to their campus. The school that has admitted her, meanwhile, is also a great fit, is a great school, and is genuinely pleased and excited about having her join them next fall - and showed it on revisit day. Once the check goes in the mail, we will not look back.</p>
<p>just assume you're not going and make other plans</p>
<p>if you do get off the waitlist it's a nice surprise, but you shouldn't think you're getting off because you're probably not</p>
<p>Actually, I think April 10 is not going to show ANY movement on waitlists. Mark it down.</p>
<p>People are getting their contracts in on this date. The concept of schools pulling students from the waitlists on April 10 assumes a real-time reaction to information received by the schools. Did anyone notice how long it took for admissions offices to log in your application materials? I know this is a smaller influx of mail and that the checks are much larger, but the reaction involved on the front end was to have the office merely log in the papers. Now the reaction requires the admission office to accumulate the data, analyze it, determine what "needs" remain unmet or underserved by those who sent in their deposits and then decide on which students get calls. Maybe I'm not giving the admission officers enough credit, but I just don't see all of that happening on April 10.</p>
<p>I don't recall anyone from last year posting good news from the wait list in the days after April 10. I do recall people hearing good news, very sporadically, in late April, early May and I even think someone who had sent in his deposit to Lawrenceville got good news from Andover in late June and made the switch...with just days to spare before the full tuition locked in at Lawrenceville. (I also think that person was a legacy -- his mom being an Andover alumna.)</p>
<p>So, the question is...how long do you sit by your phone? I say, with 6 waitlists (and no offers, right?), you don't sit by your phone. You communicate to all the schools (that you're still interested in) that if they call you before you call them to withdraw, they should know that the reply will be "yes.")</p>
<p>Then, as soon as you hear from one school, you need to accept as promised and call the others to withdraw from the waitlist.</p>
<p>You MAY gain some slight edge in that they know that a call to you won't hurt their yield numbers, but the real value to this approach is that they know that they don't need to call the next person (if that, in fact, is what they would do).</p>
<p>Thanks for all the advice! I called today and had call forwarding added to my phone. I know it is pathetic, but otherwise I would wonder if only . . . . We had an e-mail from one school asking how committed we were . . . This process is really ethically hard because each school you are waitlisted at wants to hear that they are your child's first choice. We have been honest, but I feel like we don't have a chance at those schools where we have not said it was our first choice, yet dh (darling high schooler) would go to any of them that made an offer . . . .</p>
<p>westpath,
Not to make you anymore frantic than you already are, but you should consider how you would handle getting a call from a school that's not at the top of your list. Would you say no and hope another school came through? Or will you take the first offer? Chances that several would schools would come through in the same time frame seem slim but who knows. Good luck!</p>
<p>I think you can ethically, truthfully, and accurately tell six different admissions officers, "Yes, if you accept my child, your school is out first choice." In fact, at the time of their call, it will be the "only choice" so of course it would your first choice.</p>
<p>That means this: you're ethically committed -- upon receiving such a call -- to call the other schools to tell them you're leaving their wait lists as you have finalized your child's plans for next year. But at this point, provided you're willing to make those other calls, you should feel okay with telling as many as six schools that they will be your first choice if they offer a place to your child.</p>
<p>Think about this...because if there are any schools among the six that you or your child would regret getting the call from ahead of the others, you might not want to make that kind of commitment to that school (or those schools). You could be less absolute in your assurance to them while remaining on the WL. So I wouldn't necessarily make the commitment to all six, but you could if you think they're all wonderful places. {EDIT: I agree with LovelyVelocity about this concern. Hopefully, this is one way to address it while remaining mindful of your personal ethical code.}</p>
<p>I'm also ignoring financial aid -- assuming you're not asking for any or that you're assuming none will be available. That's a contingency you could add to your affirmation of interest to each school. (E.g., "Your school will be our first choice if you extend an offer of admission and provide at least $90,000 in FA.") It's obviously much neater and much more promising if FA isn't involved in these opportunities.</p>
<p>We just declined offers at SPS and St. Andrew's for our S, so perhaps that will open something up for some of you. Good luck.</p>