<p>Do you know if there is ever any activity on or after 5-1?</p>
<p>My understanding of 5-1 is that day ‘stops the carousel’. no more activity. or can there be more decisions going on? </p>
<p>Also, my impression is that the decision on 5-1 is unilateral (student –> colleges). To what extent is this true?</p>
<p>A nuts and bolts question: how much skin is the student at risk (money) when saying yes to a college, especially on 5-1?</p>
<p>another one: on or by 5-1, do students have an obligation (vs courtesy) to explicitly tell all colleges where student has been accepted the student’s answer?</p>
<p>On the last question, I am thinking that this might be an opportunity for there to be more ‘dealing’, for lack of a better term. College X might reasonably ask what the issues were for a ‘No’. I can easily see that they might try to correct or address this (if they wanted the candidate at all).</p>
<p>Again, does this ever happen? First time in the process.</p>
<p>only if you are waiting for a reply about getting off the waitlist…you have to enroll somewhere else while you are waiting though otherwise you would be screwed</p>
<p>Decisions can be made after 5/1 if you’re waitlisted, or if you apply to a school that has rolling admissions. They can also change after 5/1 if your acceptance is rescinded for some reason.</p>
<p>The amount of money you risk depends on the college. Most schools have an enrollment deposit of a few hundred dollars, which is non-refundable - you won’t get it back if you decide not to enroll later on. You don’t start paying tuition, room & board until the semester starts, so you wouldn’t lose that money.</p>
<p>Usually, in your acceptance envelope, there’s a card that asks where you’ve ultimately decided to enroll. You don’t have to send it in, but it’s a nice courtesy - it’s helpful for schools to know where they’re losing students to. But they don’t demand a reason, nor would they contact you and offer to “fix” whatever it was that made you say no.</p>
<p>ballard said–
you have to enroll somewhere else while you are waiting</p>
<p>OK. So let’s say you enroll somewhere else by on or by 5-1 (and you are also waitlisted somewhere else). When does the waitlist college come back with a decision to remove you from a waitlist? Is there a customary time for the waitlist college to give an answer?</p>
<p>Colleges go to the waitlists after they see that their incoming class isn’t full yet. This is why it’s very important to send back the little cards (or just write a little note) that the colleges send you, even if you’re not attending. That little bit of laziness could cost a waitlisted student either another week of agony or even their entire potential place in the class.
Anyway, to answer idic5s other question, if you’re on the waitlist, you should find out sometime in May, after the colleges get back all the little cards. Usually the college will want an almost immediate answer (so that if you don’t take it someone else can), and then if you say yes you’ll send in your deposit. You will, however, lose the deposit you already put down at another school.
Good luck!</p>
<p>we have not received a FA package from the waitlisted college. I assume this is customary (why have a package if not accepted). Accurate assumption?</p>
<p>How can one issue an immediate answer if one does not know what the cost will be?</p>
<p>Well if finances are an issue, they will have to let you know before you decide. I think the most common time is 72hrs, and they’ll probably email or fax you over your fin aid award before they expect an answer.</p>
<p>…and only if the college calls on the waitlist.</p>
<p>…and, from previous comments in thread, a college will only call on the waitlist if they do not fill up on the 5-1 d day. for a reasonably good/desireable college in today’s market (a top 55er, olaf, eg), I would think they would fill up - wrong thought?</p>
<p>there is a question: is there a way to know how much a college calls on its waitlist?</p>
<p>Waitlist activity won’t necessarily be finished by May, though, and it’s entirely possible that a top school will not fill all of its slots. Two years ago, I got off of Rice’s waitlist at the end of June.</p>
<p>in the late call up scenario, is it possible the waitlist school checks in ‘just in case’ the student might want to lose the initial money down for the enrollment decision done on 5-1?</p>
<p>dorian, when you got off rice’s waitlist, did you ditch the money you put down on another school, and take up Rice’s offer?</p>