| Hey Trackie,
I was waitlisted too so I feel your pain. :/
Not to ruin my anonymity or whatever, but in your first post, you quoted Willard Dix and I just happen to live in the Chicagoland area and I know that he was the college counselor but got fired because he had some disputes with the WashU admissions office.
In specifically mentioning WashU, Mr Dix had accused a particular institution--an institution Lab School students aspire to attend--of engaging in morally reprehensible tactics.
googling of Willard Dix brought up his blog:
"I have spoken out frequently about practices I consider unreasonable, such as encouraging students to begin applications as early as March of their junior year and even making decisions before the senior year has truly begun. I've named the institutions that do this and have been excoriated by them for doing so (including having a letter sent to my principal stating that they would not accept any applications from my school)...it's clear that important but scary issues do concern high school counselors but other forces (like the threat of losing a job) cow people into silence. I've been accused of 'alienating' my school from certain colleges because of my viewpoint, even though we had managed to have more students accepted to those schools after my comments than before."
With that said, good luck to you. You deserve to get off the waitlist a lot more than I do. |