<p>Should I send the waitlist updates to the regional rep or to the admissions office directly? I have heard different things and am a bit confused. Also, some friends have suggested that I send in extra recommendations from people that know me really well--should I do that or would that just annoy the admissions officers?
Thanks!</p>
<p>Send it to your regional rep since s/he will be presenting your case.</p>
<p>Thanks! And also, I saw somewhere where somebody says don’t send your letter of intent to more than one school. I most probably won’t do that, but just for the record, does it really matter if you send that to more than one school you are waitlisted at?</p>
<p>I don’t see why you can’t send a letter to more than one waitlisted school. But you can only state that you will definitely attend if accepted in one letter.</p>
<p>alicimoo, I totally agree with you on a moral basis. However, is it really legally binding when you write that you will definitely attend if accepted? I think not. It’s not really legally binding, and what are the odds that you will be picked off from any other waitlist?</p>
<p>It can’t be legally binding in any case. Just think if you get horrible financial aid and you can’t afford it. No one would be able to do that. So I think on a moral basis it’s binding but never on a leagal.</p>
<p>^
You’re right that it’s not legally binding, but I don’t think it’s fair to other waitlisted applicant who really want to go. =/</p>
<p>Yes, but then it’s still not fair that one accepts one’s place on the waitlist in the first place. And if he or she eventually turns down the offer, the Committee will look for another applicant, so that place will indeed be given to someone else who will want to attend. Moreover, another immoral act is double-deposeting. It’s not illegal but very very immoral and unfair to all other applicants as well as the colleges. Many end up in rescinding offers.</p>
<p>How did you find the name and contact info of your admissions rep?</p>
<p>@reptil - let’s just say everything you’re saying is right. lol. x_x But if a student double deposits and colleges find out, doesn’t s/he get rescinded from both?</p>
<p>@southeasttitan - call the admissions office and ask.</p>
<p>alicimoo, I guess you missed reading my last sentence in the post:</p>
<p>“Many end up in rescinding offers.”</p>
<p>Oops, guess I skipped that part.
But unlike sending more than one letter of intent, isn’t double depositing illegal?</p>
<p>p.s. We’re really sidetracking. xD</p>
<p>[What</a> to Expect if You Were Wait-Listed - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/2009/04/06/what-to-expect-if-you-were-wait-listed.html?PageNr=2]What”>http://www.usnews.com/articles/education/2009/04/06/what-to-expect-if-you-were-wait-listed.html?PageNr=2)</p>
<p>“Double-depositing is frowned upon by colleges because it makes their planning so much more difficult, but it isn’t illegal.”</p>
<p>Wow…yeah I definitely thought double-depositing is illegal, because that just doesn’t…sound right? 
And yeah, I totally side with the argument that only to one waitlisted college should we mention we are definitely attending if accepted off the waitlist (if we even do that at all) because if we do that to more than one it just seems really unfair to everyone else as well as to the colleges even if it is not legally binding.</p>
<p>Anyway, I have another question: so if we are sending in an extra recommendation should we send it with our letter of intent or should we let our recommender address it to the regional rep? Anyone knows?</p>
<p>I have the same question here. If we are asking for an extra recommendation should the recommender send it to the admission office or should we let our recommender address it (via email) to the regional rep?</p>
<p>They don’t like recommendations at this moment. And they have already decided you are academically good enough…</p>
<p>^^ I have to laugh about the ongoing multiple-letter-of-intent and double-depositing debate on here. Look, these schools are running a business and they put us all through the ringer and made us chew our fingernails down to the nubs as they played us all against each other for the past 6 to 9 months and made us grovel for a spot. And now we’re supposed to worry about messing up their precious metrics or making things inconvenient for them by having to double dip again and again into their waitlist? Screw them. It’s a buyer’s market after 4/1 and I say make them squirm. It’s their effed-up process that they designed and I say use it to torture them as you walk away. You gotta get some entertainment out of your $75 application fee, after all. And I see in no way how any of this is unfair to fellow applicants. Everyone who deserves a tap will eventually get one.</p>
<p>Wow, so brutally honest</p>
<p>Lol’d at TheD :P</p>
<p>Also, for heaven’s sake do not listen to reptil. An additional recommendation at this stage can make or break your application.</p>
<p>Yea, a mediocre one can pretty much doom you, huh?</p>
<p>What could anybody possibly say about you that will make them want you? I have already turned in THREE recs… I don’t think anything else can possibly change their minds.</p>
<p>While it may be true as rb3 says that an additional rec could make or break your application this is a rare case. Mostly it just annoys the committee, if you wanted this rec to your application you should have submitted it before January 1 not now. And why does most colleges say on their waitlisting decisions letters advising against add recs?</p>