<p>Do waitlisted people truly have a good shot at being accepted? Does it depend on the school? Does being waitlisted and then accepted change anything for you? Is it worth staying on the waitlist?</p>
<p>When do waitlist decisions come out, normally?</p>
<p>Alright, I'll stop the questions here for now. Help, anyone?</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Yes this year you do, many people when it comes time to write the check won’t be able to.</p>
<p>i think waitlisted people will definitely have a bigger chance of being accepted.
the economy’s definitely a big factor…</p>
<p>IF you are full pay, you may have a better than normal chance. If you are FA, it’s probably slim to none.</p>
<p>Thanks, everyone :)</p>
<p>I am full pay, neatoburrito. I’m wondering, though, (actually, it’s my parents and it’s sort of grown on me now) if it is really worth going to BS? My parents want me to try again next year, but I don’t think I want to because this year it sort of hurt my grades and I don’t want it to happen again in high school.</p>
<p>But I’d really love to go, if I’m accepted.</p>
<p>I have talked to the school officials (I was waitlisted at Hotchkiss) and they said that they did anticipate to the economic changes and over accepted. I called and they bassically told me, you know what you dont really have a chance. They didnt really say that but they stressed that there are a lot of kids over accepted and they hinted I was not even close to the top of the waitlist.</p>
<p>:-/ I hope the schools I was waitlisted too, namely Lawrenceville and Peddie, didn’t do too much of that. Peddie doesn’t rank it’s students, though.</p>
<p>isn’t it something that just hotchkiss does?
i think that they overaccepted last year too…</p>
<p>Hotchkiss neither, but when they go through the admissions processes they put half in the accepted pile and half in the rejected pile and thin down the accepted pile from there. I was told I was placed in the accepted pile but “thinned” out very quickly and that the only reason I made the waitlist which a lot of kids who were “cut” after me was because I was very international and I had a lot of character. </p>
<p>They were basically saying that the kids who stayed in the accepted pile the longest but just didn’t make the cut, were first.</p>
<p>It kind of hurts to think that you were in that pile at one point though.</p>
<p>hershey, It is my understanding that all the schools do it to varying degress but all of the HADES do to the same degree for the most part but I dont really know.</p>
<p>So basically schools have over accepted in anticipation of the economy and therefore waitlisted people don’t really have a chance…?</p>
<p>Boarderkid don’t lose hope- there was a thread by someone with the name newyorker22 I think? recently who said they have heard of waitlist movement recently among full pay students! Search a user name like that or “wait list movement” under thread and you should find it.</p>
<p>I dont want to say you dont have a chance but this is just an example and nowhere near actual figures. Ok, school A has 100 applicants for 25 spots. They accept 50 in anticipation that 25 will decline and they waitlist 10. Now even though kids are declining there acceptance they still dont have room. Every year a lucky kid or two get off the wait list but yea its pretty damn hard.</p>
<p>do you guys think full FA has a chance? i’m still hoping, but i don’t expect much.</p>
<p>many kids got in but didnt get FA so waitlist from FA is insanely hard.</p>
<p>What if the school over accepts and most of those students accept? Too many of them?</p>
<p>I think that full FA may be possible, but rare at this point. But that’s just me, I don’t have any facts or anything.</p>
<p>Boarderkid, I think that, that does happen sometimes usually only by a little but this year has been hard for them to estimate for…They could be right on the mark, they could have wayyyyy over-accepted or like SPS last year did, way under-accepted you never know.</p>
<p>you would have to amazing though…
sigh, there’s still next year</p>
<p>Hm, true, but the class sizes would increase though, yes? The school can’t turn down students when they’re accepted, right?</p>
<p>No they cant but its not like they dont have the facilities for a few extra kids</p>
<p>and yes looking ahead till next year is the right attitude.</p>