| Sending in recommendations, making phone calls etc will not make that big of a difference.
Waitlists are used by colleges as a tool for enrollment management. A college may notice that not as many science majors enrolled as they had hoped, so they will take prospective science majors off the waitlist. Or they may need more actors or a French horn player. If a college were not interested in enrolling you, you would not be on the waitlist. You have already convinced them that you are a good candidate. Now it's just a matter of whether or not they have a space for you.
If you are an international student and have applied for financial aid, that is probably the reason you are on a waitlist. In that case you might be accepted if other international fin aid admits choose not to enroll. |