<p>So Vandy is my top choice and unfortunately I am on the waitlist. Does anyone have any advice as to what I can do to try and get off the waitlist and be offered admission? Thanks.</p>
<p>Send in a letter to the admissions department stating your interest and why you think you would be a good fit for their school, contact the admissions counselor that is charge of reading your regiion, and send them any grade/extracurricular updates you may have.</p>
<p>jaja jamal…gracias por tus pensamientos. me pusieron de reir…pero no tienes que ser tan descortes.</p>
<p>to OP - send in letters, photos, videos, newspaper publishings you were in, AP scores, 3rd quarter grades, additional recommendations. go on campus visits, call admissions counselors and tell them that if you are accepted off the waitlist you will for sure attend.</p>
<p>i’m in the same situation =/</p>
<p>I’m confused about the wait list. They say they will notify people on the wait list in May/June but deposits for other schools are due by May 1. So don’t we have to send in a deposit to another school because we don’t know if we will be accepted? But then, what happens if we do get accepted but we’ve already sent in a deposit?</p>
<p>You end up losing the deposit. Unfortunately that’s how it works with waitlists.</p>
<p>But isn’t a deposit a binding commitment?</p>
<p>Good luck - I really hope you get in.</p>
<p>If I send the letter to place me on the waitlist, can I still later pull myself off the list?</p>
<p>A deposit isn’t a binding commitment (I would know, I deposited at three schools in the course of three months last year… oops). And yes, if you go on the waitlist and later decide you no longer want to remain on there, you can remove yourself by mailing/e-mailing your regional rep.</p>
<p>Does anybody know how many people Vanderbilt usually accepts from the waitlist?</p>
<p>Last year, it was about 6%</p>
<p>Waitlisted… not getting on the wait list… so one less competition for you guys~~~~</p>
<p>i have a question about the waitlist- on the “facts about waitlist” sheet or whatever, it said we could send in more information about extracirriculars/work/gpa/class rank/etc improvements. do we put those in a letter and then put it in the envelope with the sheet saying we would like a place on the waitlist, or do we get our guidance counselor to send it in in a seperate letter??</p>