Any news from the Wait List?

soxmom
Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:33:09 +0000

I don’t think there’s any reason not to call, if you want, but I hate to say that it’s not going to put you out of your misery. The whole WL thing is like a domino chain. Some kid could get into Andover, or wherever, and decide that they don’t want to go to Choate after all, which then causes some other kid to get into Choate and not go to Loomis after all, and then suddenly a spot opens up. I think that starts to be less so once parents have to fork over the first half of the tuition bill (usually in July, I think), but up until then, they’ve just put down a couple thousand dollars and there are plenty of people who wouldn’t think twice about forfeiting that if their kid later gets off the WL at a first choice school. The whole thing is like pulling a bandaid off very slowly. It’d be better if you could just rip it off and be done with it, but that’s now how it works.