Any movement on HS waitlists?

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Anonymous wrote:We got waitlisted at Sidwell, GDS, and St Albans. No waitlist movement at all and we even had our DS send a letter every month with updates. Once we realized that the waitlist thing is a joke, we applied to a few other schools. These schools have waitlists, but still told us they have space. We applied and were accepted at 2 schools.

We’re shocked, but very happy that we have a place for our son. However, we now understand that at most schools the waitlist is definitely a soft rejection.

Curious where you applied for high school and were accepted after the deadlines this spring.

We applied to Landon, Georgetown Prep, and SJU. Don’t want to say where we got in for privacy reasons, but considering the fact that all of these schools have healthy waitlists, finding out that they still would not only consider our son but also get us a decision within a week was very telling about how this whole thing works.

Sorry, but this is hard to believe. If true, there must have been a very unique circumstance presented by your family for two of the three schools to have accepted your son at this late date.

Not that hard to believe they were accepted late. We’ve had kids come into our private mid year, even some as late as Feb. There is more wiggle room than you’d think when it comes do class sizes. Especially for the right family

But the strange part is that they were obviously very desirable to these schools, and not at all to the original 3 schools. Why do you think that was?

As the OP family in question, I think it also comes down to fit for 1.

Secondly, we applied for financial aid at these schools during the cycle and I think that definitely hurt us.

Off cycle we didn’t.

Grandparents on both sides read the room and saw that if our kid was going to get in, we needed to NOT ask for aid.

Not saying it was the only factor, but here we are with 2 acceptances at schools with active waitlists. And might I add, that one of these schools was on us sending emails every couple of days to see where we were in the application submission process. Almost as if they were actively courting us. I couldn’t believe it. Nothing like that occurred during the cycle.

Again, you offer something unique -- perhaps a job connection and/or URM. Yes, and the fact you did not ask for financial aid in the second round definitely led to the acceptances. Plus how do you know they still have waitlists? By June 1, the waitlists are usually ended because that is when full responsibility for next year's tuition attaches.

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Anonymous wrote:We got waitlisted at Sidwell, GDS, and St Albans. No waitlist movement at all and we even had our DS send a letter every month with updates. Once we realized that the waitlist thing is a joke, we applied to a few other schools. These schools have waitlists, but still told us they have space. We applied and were accepted at 2 schools.

We’re shocked, but very happy that we have a place for our son. However, we now understand that at most schools the waitlist is definitely a soft rejection.

Curious where you applied for high school and were accepted after the deadlines this spring.

We applied to Landon, Georgetown Prep, and SJU. Don’t want to say where we got in for privacy reasons, but considering the fact that all of these schools have healthy waitlists, finding out that they still would not only consider our son but also get us a decision within a week was very telling about how this whole thing works.

Sorry, but this is hard to believe. If true, there must have been a very unique circumstance presented by your family for two of the three schools to have accepted your son at this late date.

Not that hard to believe they were accepted late. We’ve had kids come into our private mid year, even some as late as Feb. There is more wiggle room than you’d think when it comes do class sizes. Especially for the right family

But the strange part is that they were obviously very desirable to these schools, and not at all to the original 3 schools. Why do you think that was?

As the OP family in question, I think it also comes down to fit for 1.

Secondly, we applied for financial aid at these schools during the cycle and I think that definitely hurt us.

Off cycle we didn’t.

Grandparents on both sides read the room and saw that if our kid was going to get in, we needed to NOT ask for aid.

Not saying it was the only factor, but here we are with 2 acceptances at schools with active waitlists. And might I add, that one of these schools was on us sending emails every couple of days to see where we were in the application submission process. Almost as if they were actively courting us. I couldn’t believe it. Nothing like that occurred during the cycle.

Again, you offer something unique -- perhaps a job connection and/or URM. Yes, and the fact you did not ask for financial aid in the second round definitely led to the acceptances. Plus how do you know they still have waitlists? By June 1, the waitlists are usually ended because that is when full responsibility for next year's tuition attaches.

We sent in our applications to the new schools well before the June deadline. More like April/May.

We were waitlisted at the first round schools and never received anything that said the waitlist is over. I assumed the waitlist extends all the way until the start of school.

During our second round of applications DS shadowed with a few boys who were applying late due to the SSFS fiasco and actually got along quite well with one. So well they exchanged contact info to keep in touch. This boy was waitlisted everywhere. So yes, schools still have waitlists and are still adding to them.. but also accepting people who apply late if they’re the “right fit”