wait list movement

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:New to all of this but I didn't know that waitlists could/would move b/f the May 1 deadline to commit.

Is this normal or another covid-influenced issue?

Many kids don’t wait until the last minute to make their choice. When they accept an offer, they are supposed to notify other schools they are declining. So spaces open up.

And thanks a million to the teens who do this --as it is a big courtesy to the kids on the wait list!!!

[Anonymous]

Bucknell has started taking from its WL.

[Anonymous]

Virginia Tech is moving for in-state kids

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:U of Delaware.

Settling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If my kid has to wait until summer to find out, he’s going to lose his mind. He assumed he would hear shortly after May 3rd if any of the waitlists are going to move.

I can’t imagine they would move at the Ivys or next tier schools anyway.

If he's going to lose his mind waiting until summer then you and he approached the whole process wrong. He hasn't been accepted yet at any college that he'd be perfectly happy to attend?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If my kid has to wait until summer to find out, he’s going to lose his mind. He assumed he would hear shortly after May 3rd if any of the waitlists are going to move.

I can’t imagine they would move at the Ivys or next tier schools anyway.

If he's going to lose his mind waiting until summer then you and he approached the whole process wrong. He hasn't been accepted yet at any college that he'd be perfectly happy to attend?

He has accepted but is holding out hope. He got WL at 4 schools.
He would choose any of them over his current selection. That’s not to say he won’t be fine there, but he was shooting higher and is hoping to get off one. They are all next tier down from Ivys, and I don’t think there is much of a chance. Every day he goes around saying, “I just one to get off one. Just one.” He is very on edge.

[Anonymous]

All this anxiety, and my kid is choosing his in-statesafety.

He got into 3 of his reaches (top 40 colleges) and doesn't care.

YMMV

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

He has accepted but is holding out hope. He got WL at 4 schools.

If you put a deposit and accept an offer now, and got off the WL after May 1. Do you just loose the deposit? Is there any rule against doing it?

[Anonymous]

That is exactly what people do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

He has accepted but is holding out hope. He got WL at 4 schools.

If you put a deposit and accept an offer now, and got off the WL after May 1. Do you just loose the deposit? Is there any rule against doing it?

Yes, of course you lose the deposit at school #1 if you take a WL offer from school #2.

No matter what, you gotta commit at one college before the deadline or else your SOL.

[Anonymous]

I heard more Wisconsin waitlist movement today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I heard more Wisconsin waitlist movement today.

Are you sure? Seems odd since just yesterday Wisconsin admissions sent an email to everyone waitlisted asking them to submit another essay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard more Wisconsin waitlist movement today.

Are you sure? Seems odd since just yesterday Wisconsin admissions sent an email to everyone waitlisted asking them to submit another essay.

+2 No Wisconsin WL movement reported on Reddit or College Confidential.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard more Wisconsin waitlist movement today.

Are you sure? Seems odd since just yesterday Wisconsin admissions sent an email to everyone waitlisted asking them to submit another essay.

+2 No Wisconsin WL movement reported on Reddit or College Confidential.

Maybe that’s OOS. In state there has been movement.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard more Wisconsin waitlist movement today.

Are you sure? Seems odd since just yesterday Wisconsin admissions sent an email to everyone waitlisted asking them to submit another essay.

+2 No Wisconsin WL movement reported on Reddit or College Confidential.

Maybe that’s OOS. In state there has been movement.

Got it. Happy for those kids