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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do they ever accept if a child didn’t submit a LOCI? DC is on the waitlist for Princeton and hasn’t submitted one. [/quote]

Why didn't they submit? This seems like step one.[/quote] 
Received a full ride to another great college after accepting a spot on Princeton’s waitlist. I just wonder if they can still be accepted for my bragging rights (the child doesn’t care). I also wonder if all the kids (especially the first generation ones) know to submit a LOCI. It doesn’t seem that colleges explicitly instruct the waitlisted kids to submit those. [/quote]

My kid got waitlisted at an ivy and didn’t get a full ride to another great college. It burns to know that people like you are staying on wait lists just so you (the parent!) can have bragging rights if they call you. Why not let Your kid withdraw from the Princeton waitlist so some kid who might actually go will have a better chance?[/quote]

I was thinking the same.[/quote]

Wouldn’t Princeton just move to the next name on the list? It’s not like they’d say “well Jimmy said no and even though we have these couple hundred other kids on the list I think we’re good here”[/quote]

Their kid got a full ride to another great college. How much bragging rights does one person need?[/quote]

That’s a different point. It’s not clear that it has any actual impact so if some kid wants to stroke their ego it might be tasteless but it seems harmless[/quote]
Tasteless PP here. The kid is too busy to care and would be annoyed at me if I brought it up. Would Princeton truly accept without a LOCI, if they have equally qualified students who demonstrated interest? Now that a lot of students updated their social media profiles with the names of colleges they committed to, would a college check their profiles before taking them off the waitlist? For example, if a child announced that they are going to Harvard or MIT, would Princeton still accept them from the waitlist? Just wondering if a child who posted a non-Ivy/non-T10 acceptance will have a higher chance of being accepted by Princeton. Or would they think: "They are going to VA Tech, apparently weren't accepted by any top college, so we don't want them either"? [/quote]

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