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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You've been all the way through the application process including open houses, personal tours, shadow days, interviews and competing of the application.

Now your DD has been put on the waitlist and the strategy that is being recommended is proclaiming that the school is you number one choice and enlisting teachers, priests, alumni or whoever to write letters.

I may be cynical, but where was all this effort during the regular admissions process. Or was your stance that you were just shopping, just comparing alternatives, and that this decision that Visi was the only place your DD could be truly happy occurred after you got the WL letter.

It couldn't be that there were some rejection letters in the mail too?

If I was the Admissions office, I'd be curious as to then this seemingly new realized conviction that our school is your number one chance occurred and why.[/quote]

Yikes, PP.  I'm a different poster, OP, here to encourage you to take the advice of other posters, and ignore the above.  Being informed of a wait list status is not unique to applicants only at Visi and it does provide an opportunity for your daughter to buttress her case for her application.  Yes, you should have your daughter write a letter to Admissions and, if you are able, to get additional recommendations from folks familiar to the school.  Visi is a special place and the little bit of extra effort is worth it.  We know several girls who have moved off of the wait list in prior years and it was because they took the extra steps after being informed of their wait list status.  The staff in the Admissions Office knows and expects that they will hear from girls who really want to attend Visi.  Spots will open up and your daughter will want the staff of the Admissions Office to know that Visi is her top choice and why they should select her.  Best wishes to your daughter and I hope that it all works out for her![/quote]

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