For most deferred kids, “happy ending” means having choices that they’re happy and excited about when RD comes out.

Anonymous wrote:Could moms stop posting depressing stories? The title says “happy ending.”

That’s not realistic 99% of the time in this admission landscape.

Anonymous wrote:Could moms stop posting depressing stories? The title says “happy ending.”

Sorry if reality is depressing but look at the CDS at these schools for the exceedingly low number of kids coming off the WL.

Anonymous wrote:Could moms stop posting depressing stories? The title says “happy ending.”

It’s very rare. That’s the point. Not realistic to have much hope. Might as well face it.

Hope that you are not encouraging unrealistic expectations in your kid.

My kid was waitlisted (not at a T20). She got into that school eventually, after she had accepted another offer (by necessity, the deadline had passed). She had not attended Accepted Students Day at the school that initially waitlisted her, so did not feel like a part of their community. That, added with some resentment of their treatment of her (vs the warm welcome and merit aid she had received at the second choice school), caused her to decline the offer from the higher ranked school that initially put her in their waitlist.

Anonymous wrote:Could moms stop posting depressing stories? The title says “happy ending.”

+100

Not waitlist but deferred Vanderbilt ed2 and Michigan ea. in at both RD.

Could moms stop posting depressing stories? The title says “happy ending.”

Anonymous wrote:Dartmouth strung on my son, several friends and about 5 other kids we know until August year. Their ED deferrals are a road to nowhere.

"August LAST year"

Dartmouth strung on my son, several friends and about 5 other kids we know until August year. Their ED deferrals are a road to nowhere.

This is like watching your girlfriend move cross country for the guy who already told her he “wants to see other people.” I suppose in theory it might work out but it’s almost guaranteed to be a train wreck. There are plenty of other fish in the sea.

I'm so sorry, but my kid tried SCEA/REa for Princeton. Deferred/waitlisted. And on Ivy day, waitlisted for every Ivy school he had applied to. and not one of his friends in his small private got in RED.

Deferred then waitlisted to Brown. Was disappointed but okay with Plan B: UMD Honors College. Then got off waitlist mid-summer!

Not the story you wanted but another way to handle… my kid abandoned all waitlist schools. All Cornell they wanted a 1000 word essay to stay on waitlist and then admitted only a handful of students from thousands. Give up on the ranking and have your kid go some place they are wanted. T20 does not give them the advantage you think it does

Please share your stories of DC being deferred, then waitlisted, and finally accepted into any of the top schools.

And how was it like going through the long five months!