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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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

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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

Yes, we have a super unique story as a family as does our son. I won’t explain here because it would totally give us away, but I don’t expect that most families would have the same outcome us.

However, I will say that applying off cycle did, I feel, give us a little more individualized attention than we received during the regular cycle. We felt like the schools in the off cycle truly tried to get to know our boy. Of course because admissions teams are much less swamped, but it also just seemed much more straight forward. [/quote]

We experienced a marginally different version of this a few years ago.  We applied off cycle, had a totally white glove process and received admissions decisions within a week or so of applying. It really does happen and probably more often than we assume.[/quote]

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