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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This was us. We attended the accepted student events at the other schools, and DC let the WL school know it was first choice.

Then we told DC to assume the WL was a no, make a choice between the other four options (one of which was the neighborhood public - we always included that in the mix), and if anything changed, we'd revisit the decision. DC requested another shadow day at one of the schools, and that sealed the deal. We sent decline notices to the other accepted schools, paid the deposit on time, and waited to hear from the WL school until the last day when the contract was due. We didn't hear and so sent in the contract (on the final day). DC is very happy, and is clearly in the right place.

Never got off the WL, btw, though we heard that someone else did.

Congratulations on having choices.[/quote]

OP here. Thank you all for your inputs! Now I really don't know if we should write to our top choice to show our continued interest (I heard this sometimes helps) or just stay on the wl quietly...[/quote]

Think you should express your continued interest. But it might not make any difference in terms of a spot for your child. It’s not a one to one thing – depending on students that don’t accept, they’ll be looking to round out the class with kids with specific attributes.[/quote]

I agree with this poster. We were w/l at one of our top choices but the admissions officer was clear on letting us know that even if one of the admits decline the offer of acceptance, that our chances were not that great due to our request for fa.  In other words, enough fa had to be freed up from declines to even make our DC's admission possible from the w/l. And there are other factors after that which they had to navigate. We quietly waited on the w/l while making another top choice (that we actually ended up at and absolutely love for our DC. DC loves it too). Our niece just went through this also. Was wait listed at a college. But they had a nice savings fund to take care of the first two years and demonstrated little need. Niece moved off the w/l shortly thereafter.[/quote]

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