Class of 2022 (the journey); sharing, venting, discussing

singoutlouise
Sat, 09 Mar 2019 16:57:33 +0000

In our experience…waitlists at the tippy top are very slow to move and have very few openings. Some schools also decide their class is complete and just don’t go to the waitlist. (I have observed this at Carnegie, UMIch, CCM, Ithaca, Penn St.) At these schools maybe a spot or two opens but maybe not. So you hang on but can’t set your heart on it. With that said my daughter got very lucky and got the school of her dreams from a waitlist. She also got off another top contender at the end of August! but by then she was over the moon at UMIch. In my experience, school’s that take bigger classes see more movement - so even BoCo will see more spaces open. As well as places like Marymount Manhattan, Hartt, etc. (just naming these because we saw quite a bit of waitlist movement through friends). So if have a particular school you are waiting on - I would check out last year’s threads to understand potential movement. In the end though, look at what you have already and find excitement in that - there are so many amazing programs.
I get it though, it is super hard, when your kid is still holding on to the dream school and there is a still a chance. We were there two years ago. It’s exhausting.