Today I found out I was waitlisted at WashU after falling in love at Discovery Weekend. After my initial disappointment, anger, denial, crying, and all those other phases of grief, I decided that there is probably something I can do about it. Some Stats:
33 ACT, Student Body President, Superintendent's Roundtable Student Coordinator, National Honor Society Secretary, 4.0 GPA, valedictorian, Kodak Young Leaders Award, Coca Cola Scholars Semifinalist, National Merit Commended Scholar, many local awards, 3-sport varsity captain, individual track and field state qualifier, school's top scholar-athlete award, attended Johns Hopkins U. Center for Talented Youth once, Northwestern U. Center for Talent Development twice, community service on spring breaks...so many things I can't remember all of them. Also, I got a full ride to Tulane.
Some interesting websites: GUIDANCE COUNSELOR; The New Safeties - New York Times BW Online | May 29, 2002 | Playing the Wait-List Game Waiting Out the Wait List for College: Tips for Getting Off the College Wait List and Getting In
"To maintain a 19 percent acceptance rate, Wash U has been known to wait-list top students it suspects are using it as a safety, says Will Dix, a college counselor at the Lab Schools of the University of Chicago. ''They're part of a weird phenomenon of schools who know they're a lot of kids' second choice but don't want to be,'' he says. ''They have mastered the art of manipulating numbers and of aggressive marketing."
Here's where I am: How do I get off the waitlist and get accepted?