Obviously don't keep high hopes but there's nothing to lose from showing interest, keeping in touch with the admissions office and what not.

Do you have $10million to donate?

Anonymous wrote:DS is waitlisted at Vandy WashU, Emory-oxford and Uchicago
He's in at Texas am, UCSB, and UCSD. We obviously want to get off one of the waitlist. What should we do?

Mine had no interest in wait lists, he believed in love the school which loves you back. It wasn’t an Ivy but a top 20 with a partial merit scholarship.

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Anonymous wrote:UVAs recommends if you are on their waitlist to go ahead and register for your next choice school and to assume it’s a NO for UVA. I assume most schools feel the same.

The waitlist is like a nice way to say you were considered but we have no room for you. All the best.

I would move on.

OP did not mention UVA. But for Virginia residents waitlisted at UVA, there is the option to attend UVA at Wise for a year and then transfer. W&M also provides the option for spring admission after a semester at a Virginia community college or semester abroad.

Yes there is the UVA Wise option, but few students take it as Wise is rural, isolated, and a very different environment/culture for most kids who wanted Charlottesville.

Might not be a bad experience for a year

UCSD alum here. Your kid will love La Jolla and UCSD. Go visit and I am sure they will be excited to attend.

Why do you obviously want to get off one of the waitlists?

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Anonymous wrote:UVAs recommends if you are on their waitlist to go ahead and register for your next choice school and to assume it’s a NO for UVA. I assume most schools feel the same.

The waitlist is like a nice way to say you were considered but we have no room for you. All the best.

I would move on.

OP did not mention UVA. But for Virginia residents waitlisted at UVA, there is the option to attend UVA at Wise for a year and then transfer. W&M also provides the option for spring admission after a semester at a Virginia community college or semester abroad.

Yes there is the UVA Wise option, but few students take it as Wise is rural, isolated, and a very different environment/culture for most kids who wanted Charlottesville.

Anonymous wrote:UVAs recommends if you are on their waitlist to go ahead and register for your next choice school and to assume it’s a NO for UVA. I assume most schools feel the same.

The waitlist is like a nice way to say you were considered but we have no room for you. All the best.

I would move on.

OP did not mention UVA. But for Virginia residents waitlisted at UVA, there is the option to attend UVA at Wise for a year and then transfer. W&M also provides the option for spring admission after a semester at a Virginia community college or semester abroad.

UCSD is fantastic. I get that it’s far away but it is so hard to get in as an OOS student that that’s amazing.

But if you do want to try to move off a waitlist, visit the schools again, go to a panel where faculty are speaking, go chat up the professors after the discussion and mention you were waitlisted, stop by the admissions office and mention you submitted a LOCI - if last semester grades are stellar, mention it, and ask if there is any way you can be admitted in the spring.

UVAs recommends if you are on their waitlist to go ahead and register for your next choice school and to assume it’s a NO for UVA. I assume most schools feel the same.

The waitlist is like a nice way to say you were considered but we have no room for you. All the best.

I would move on.

Anonymous wrote:Emory-oxford ... didn't do main campus Emory? Seems like if he reached out to Emory-oxford expressing undying love as his first choice, he would get in.

Why would Oxford do that? OP likely didn't get into the main campus. You knew that though.

Waitlists are mostly wishful thinking. Good luck but please encourage DC to plan on a school that's a sure thing. Decide to be happy.

Anonymous wrote:I do not think there is any special magic formula. If WashU needs a tuba player and you happen to be one, you might get the call. If a classmate declines UChicago, you might get that spot. If there is something new to add (I just cured Cancer!) certainly send the update.

Best to just focus on the actual choices..

+1

Yup. Went through this in 2020 - it is zero fun, OP.