Reply to Am I right to read this as a waitlist acceptance?

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "Am I right to read this as a waitlist acceptance?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I worked in admissions in a T10 law school. We didn’t admit anyone from the waitlist without doing this. Usually by phone because we wanted to judge the response. Every once in a while we’d still get skunked because after our offer (which they had accepted) then an even higher ranked school would admit them from their WL. It just the way it works. Now mind you our incoming class sizes were much smaller to manage.[/quote]

Judge the response? What do you mean? If they didn't sound excited enough, then what?[/quote]

Hesitates, seems unsure, asks lots of questions about FA, seems to be buying for time, asks for extension, etc. You become a good judge over time. As another PP noted it’s partially about yield but also just that AOs have been grinding all admissions season and just want to be done. So if the next guy on the list is more eager than you or you give off red flags, we’ll go with him.[/quote]

DP. How long ago was this? I think today people are much more awkward and anxious and more people would act like that. 20 years ago I can picture myself saying "Yep, I'm still interested, thanks." Today I would probably be overthinking: "why are they calling? Is this yield protection? I need to go online and see if others got this call and how they responded." I can't ever imagine myself acting all excited because that's just not my personality.[/quote]

I agree; I think it's weird to judge someone's interest based on how they react on a cold call, especially a 17-year-old who doesn't have any experience with this sort of thing.[/quote]

They are literally asking  "are you still interested in getting off the waitlist." They aren't judging the kid, they're asking them outright if they want the offer or not. [/quote]

That's the case of the OP, but this was a side conversation from someone who cold called and did judge based on the reaction (although that was for law school).[/quote]

I’m that PP. we’d call and say something like “I’m calling from X school. We are looking at potentially having a little bit of availability in our upcoming class and were wondering what your plans were and if you were still interested in attending.”

Based on their response, it was pretty easy to judge eagerness or not. It’s not that complicated. I didn’t mean “judge” as in think less of them. I meant do they actually sound excited or not really. IME, the ones who actually ended up coming accepted on the spot or call back within a couple hours. Those who needed extra time “to think” or whatever weren’t going to come anyway so it was better to just move on to the next person without making the formal offer. We didn’t even run the acceptance letter until we got a firm verbal commit.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics