<p>if i'm waitlisted.. should that just be considered the end of it? what happens?</p>
<p>Getting waitlisted is tough because a very, very few kids actually get pulled off the waitlist at the top schools. Keep in mind that March 10th you find out if you get in, and then the revisit days start for those who were accepted and those people have until a certain date to decide if they want to go to a particular school. Every school offers admission to more kids than they will actually have room for because they know that not all will accept. It would be unwise to think that when you see postings in mid March on this board that someone got accepted at three schools and they are not going to go to the one you are waitlisted at that there will be a spot open for a waitlisted person. It is based on a percentage thing. Admissions knows based on the past the percentage of kids they offer admission to that will actually accept. If it turns out that they are off and a larger percentage of kids said "no" to them, then that is when they pull off the waitlist. My advice is only that if you are accepted at a school you would like to attend, but waitlisted at your top choice, you may want to consider accepting at the one you were accepted at. Based on what I have seen, it is more likely to never get off a waitlist than it is to receive a last-minute acceptance off the waitlist. If you think the wait is bad now just waiting for March 10th, try waiting another 4-5 months and then being told there is no opening after all.</p>
<p>Usually the more competitive the schools is, the less often they go to their wait list. Which schools did you apply to? I know Choate went to their wait list last year, but I'm pretty sure schools like Andover, Exeter, St. Paul's, Hotchkiss, Deerfield, Groton, etc. did not.</p>
<p>i'm applying to exeter, brooks, berkshire, nmh, and st. george's. is there anything to do to kind of boost yourself off the waitlist? any recommendations or anything like that to act as a catalyst?</p>
<p>You should PM olivia567 . She was waitlisted at Choate last year, but eventually got in.</p>
<p>Waitlist movement depends also on WHY you were waitlisted and WHO doesn't accept the offer.<br>
If you are a good underwater tubaphone player (UTP) and the UTP they thought would attend didn't, you might get an offer even before they go through the entire yield process. You may also get waitlisted pending receipt of your winter term grades. They really have a spot for you, just waiting to be sure you are maintaining the grades.
Those I'm guessing are the exceptions however, not the rule.<br>
But definately, movement from the waitlist does depend on who says no.<br>
I think probably the hardest part is that most times you do not know until after you need to make a commitment to another school. If you really want a school you've been waitlisted at vs one that accepted you outright, you should certainly wait until the last minute to accept and definately contact them and let them know of your interest.</p>
<p>Hah. I'd probably go insane.</p>
<p>AHH!
4-5 monthes.
I would go crazy waiting.
And then being rejected...
<em>shudder</em></p>
<p>Hahah anyway, it's not even March 10th yet, so we should be positive and talk about acceptances rather than waitlists :D</p>
<p>Wait. If you are waitlisted do the schools send you a 2nd letter telling you if you are accepted/rejected? How late/soon does this letter come? Can you check your position on the waitlist??</p>
<p>Crickett, there is no position on a waitlist. A waitlist is not a list of applicants where one can be the first in line waiting for the first available spot. It is more a pool of people to pick from. If Linda S' UTP player does not accept their offer they may take another UTP player form the waitlist pool, not the "first in line".</p>
<p>I don't know if you ever get a "nope, we're all full" letter, but I do know that sometimes waitlist movement happens as late as late August.<br>
That's the hard part about waitlists, unless you have not been accepted outright anywhere, you most likely will commit elsewhere before you get off a waitlist.</p>
<p>Ah. Darnit.</p>
<p>crickett, after March 10th (because the waitlist and reject letters get sent snail mail), you will get a thin letter that says we like a lot about you and thought you met our requirements but alas there is no room right now for you. It will ask you to be patient and also to send back a card (which they have conveniently enclosed) asking whether you wish to be placed on the waitlist or if you want to just say no. If you send back the note saying you would like to remain on the waitlist, then you really won't hear anything for a couple of months and then they will send you another letter saying nothing has opened up yet. You will NOT be asked to attend any revisit days and if you contact the school, I have been told that you will not be well-recieved at that point because they are busy working with their admitted students. Then the summer will progress until late August when you will receive yet another thin letter stating, "sorry, the openings we had anticipated did not materialize and our enrollment is now officially full for the fall." Oh, in the first or second note they will tell you you can send in your next quarter's grades and end of year grades to keep them abreast of how you are continue to do in school. My child is at one of the top tier schools and knows of one student who was accepted off the waitlist last summer towards August. It was for an 11th grade spot. Hope that helps :-)</p>
<p>Wow!! Haha! Thanks for the well written responses, everyone!!!</p>
<p>they check your 2nd quarter grades?</p>
<p>JUst out of curiousity, do people put a lot of kids on their waitlist?
Like.. 100 or 20...</p>
<p>ugh, i don't even want to think about being waitlisted...</p>
<p>I'd rather be waitlisted than to be rejected.
It'd be less disappointing..</p>
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they check your 2nd quarter grades?
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Absoutely. Sometimes that is why you are waitlisted. So they can check those winter term grades. For example, if you have been an average student but then had fall grades that were all off the charts, they may want to see if you can keep it up. Or maybe your transcript shows a pattern of dips in the winter, and they want to see if you are pulling out of that pattern.</p>
<p>Do they always call to ask?
Because my grades dropped considerably, due to the 10 essays (9 schools) I had to write and the applications...
Do they also look at 3rd quarter?
Because my grades are alot better now...</p>