Anonymous wrote:What changed after Tuesday? It feels like a lot of families who were told they were a first choice were suddenly waitlisted. Is this some kind of admissions game now? The same thing happened to us. Unfortunately, we’re not in a position where we can simply be happy with an alternative, and we may need to consider moving to the suburbs to enroll directly for Grade 1.

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Anonymous wrote:Waitlist at Trinity

Straight out rejection from Dalton. Didnt realize schools even send out rejections anymore!

Sorry.

Honestly I wish more of them did, I'd rather not be left in limbo by a school that has no actual chance of taking our kid - if waitlisting was consistently accurate then you would have a better idea of where you stood and what your odds were in each place. (we dealt with this last year and if we had know which of the waitlisted schools we actually had a shot at we would have acted very differently)

Though I'm surprised Dalton would do this since they seem like one of the more spacey / vibes-based admissions offices; HM on the other hand seems incredibly organized and probably has every kid assigned an exact rank order on their waitlist and yet as I understand it they waitlist everyone.

We received a straight out rejection from Brearley even though initial feedback was positive (though we did not FC them).

Wow.. that is really surprising and horrible. I thought it was horrible a few years ago when my friend was told by her PSD that she had really positive feedback from one of the SS to the point where my friend expected admission but got waitlisted. She told me that she was told her daughter would be one of the admits. So, she was so surprised to get WL instead. She still does not know what happened.

This happened to us (well kind of) this week. We were told up until Tuesday we were in at our top choice school, and then were told we would be waitlisted.

We are super happy with our second choice school and that we got in, but are contemplating still trying to get off the waitlist for our first choice.

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Anonymous wrote:Waitlist at Trinity

Straight out rejection from Dalton. Didnt realize schools even send out rejections anymore!

Sorry.

Honestly I wish more of them did, I'd rather not be left in limbo by a school that has no actual chance of taking our kid - if waitlisting was consistently accurate then you would have a better idea of where you stood and what your odds were in each place. (we dealt with this last year and if we had know which of the waitlisted schools we actually had a shot at we would have acted very differently)

Though I'm surprised Dalton would do this since they seem like one of the more spacey / vibes-based admissions offices; HM on the other hand seems incredibly organized and probably has every kid assigned an exact rank order on their waitlist and yet as I understand it they waitlist everyone.

We received a straight out rejection from Brearley even though initial feedback was positive (though we did not FC them).

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Anonymous wrote:Waitlist at Trinity

Straight out rejection from Dalton. Didnt realize schools even send out rejections anymore!

Sorry.

Honestly I wish more of them did, I'd rather not be left in limbo by a school that has no actual chance of taking our kid - if waitlisting was consistently accurate then you would have a better idea of where you stood and what your odds were in each place. (we dealt with this last year and if we had know which of the waitlisted schools we actually had a shot at we would have acted very differently)

Though I'm surprised Dalton would do this since they seem like one of the more spacey / vibes-based admissions offices; HM on the other hand seems incredibly organized and probably has every kid assigned an exact rank order on their waitlist and yet as I understand it they waitlist everyone.

We received a straight out rejection from Brearley even though initial feedback was positive (though we did not FC them).

Wow.. that is really surprising and horrible. I thought it was horrible a few years ago when my friend was told by her PSD that she had really positive feedback from one of the SS to the point where my friend expected admission but got waitlisted. She told me that she was told her daughter would be one of the admits. So, she was so surprised to get WL instead. She still does not know what happened.

Anonymous wrote:Guys, what is going on this year? People are freaking out on Facebook with many shut out with waitlists and rejections. Siblings not accepted. Do we have any good news?