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[quote=Anonymous]Do what works for you!

But I will say the "screw them if they want other people more than me" approach doesn't resonate with me at all. For me, admissions is not the least bit personal. They don't actually know me - it's a numbers game and an imperfect process. So deferrals and waitlists and even rejections never phased me.

Which is why, when I was wait-listed by my first choice for law school, I stayed in the game with supplemental materials and demonstrated interest. It didn't feel like begging to me. It felt like persistence. I was eventually admitted about a month before the school year started, and was thrilled to be going to school I liked more than my second choice school, which accepted me the first time around. (The schools were ranked similarly, to the extent that matters. But they were quite different in other ways.)

While I'm sure I would have been perfectly fine at my second choice school had I not been admitted off the waitlist by my first choice, it never occurred to me to do anything other than what I always do: work hard and persist in order to take my best shot at getting what I want in life.

And it never occurred to me that being waitlisted was an indication that I wasn't wanted. Nor did I ever feel like that once I got there. I knew I was every bit as qualified as the rest of my classmates (and I ended up graduating high in my class, so that belief turned out to be true.)

But of course, different people are different. Some value being "wanted" more than they value actually getting the thing they want most. If that approach works for you or your DC, that's great. But it's not everyone's cup of tea.

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