<p>Please know that Exeter and Andover get close (if not more than) 3,000 applications for about 300 spots. Know that your children are extremely bright, and may have made it up to the final cuts. Waitlist means the schools found a reason to want the student - but just didn’t have enough room. In a different year, the choice of students might have been different. At least that is something for the parent to hold on to. That of the the piles, thousands were turned down, but a smaller group received a “maybe” in the form of a waitlist. Fingers crossed for you.</p>