Experience with College Waitlist

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DS is currently in waitlist limbo for 4 schools. He is not happy with any of his acceptances. Trying to get him to pick one of his 4 acceptances right now and he is not thrilled.

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joining the club. such a difficult decision picking from what accepted and not really thrilled about any of them.

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Anonymous wrote:It's worth it to have your school's college counselor to make a call. I know someone who got off w/l for Yale Law School. They had someone write a letter describing how great the applicant was. I couldn't believe it worked.

Really ? Our counselor said they didn’t contact wait listing colleges but would take the call in case any reached out to the school (Sidwell). This seems like an overly passive approach.

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Anonymous wrote:There are 6,000 right now on UVA's waitlist. 20,000 on UCLA's. These aren't true waitlists - they are soft denials. You should move on.

People do get off the waitlists, but the number of kids that they put on the waitlist is just ridiculous. It just isn't fair to the kids, it leaves some with a false hope.

I completely agree. Princeton does the same (loads up the waitlist with soft denials). It's really not fair to the kids.

If you know anyone on the Princeton board of trustees that sometimes can lead to movement off the wait list.

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Anonymous wrote:DS is currently in waitlist limbo for 4 schools. He is not happy with any of his acceptances. Trying to get him to pick one of his 4 acceptances right now and he is not thrilled.

Then why did he apply to those schools??????

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LOL 13 off a waitlist of 5000 @ UVA.

Fools conning fools!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DS is currently in waitlist limbo for 4 schools. He is not happy with any of his acceptances. Trying to get him to pick one of his 4 acceptances right now and he is not thrilled.

Then why did he apply to those schools??????

Point may be that having a wl slot overshadows the existing admissions, creating false hope. The odds are very, very slim and he should just move on. Once the false hope is gone, may warm up to acceptances.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DS is currently in waitlist limbo for 4 schools. He is not happy with any of his acceptances. Trying to get him to pick one of his 4 acceptances right now and he is not thrilled.

Then why did he apply to those schools??????

Come on. Be better than this.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DS is currently in waitlist limbo for 4 schools. He is not happy with any of his acceptances. Trying to get him to pick one of his 4 acceptances right now and he is not thrilled.

Then why did he apply to those schools??????

In the 6 months since he applied it has become more clear what he wants in a college. Sadly, this was not clear when he made his list last September.