<p>Daughter just got on waitlist for Loyola Marymount. (Took them long enough…today is the 6 of April?) Just wondering if anyone has experience with this school and an acceptance from a waitlist. They said they had 9,000 apply and accepted 1,300. wonder how many on the waitlist, 300? More? Less? She really wants to go there so I don’t know whether to encourage or move on and take last choice.Ugh!</p>
<p>Usually that information is in the Common Data set, but Loyola has left that section blank. The only way to find out is to call or email them.</p>
<p>I suggest having your D’s guuidance counselor make that phone call. You need to find out if your daughter has a realistic shot before you keep hope alive.</p>
<p>Some schools wait list rather than reject for a host of reasons. If you are an alum; related to a major donor; your D’s school is a major “feeder” HS; your HS principal is a U trustee; all of these could have gotten your D on the WL rather than an outright rejection… but it doesn’t mean that your D has a shot of clearing it.</p>
<p>WL don’t function the way the line at a movie theater does, i.e. next in line gets up to the ticket counter. The admissions folks get to cull through the W/L in a leisurely fashion if they have spots to fill. So the cello-playing poetry writer may cut ahead of your D if they discover that the cello player and poetry writer have both declined their admissions offers.</p>
<p>Better to have the GC have an open conversation with the adcoms; if your D got a courtesy W/L, or the list is top-heavy with legacies and your D is not, better to get your energy and emotions caught up with the place she’s likely to end up in rather than nurse a false hope.</p>
<p>IMO.</p>
<p>Say, Bucknell says it has a “ranked” WL and they will share this with students.</p>
<p>Does this mean what I think it means? Can D just e-mail and find out if she is in the top few kids? If not, can she just put the whole Bucknell idea to rest?</p>
<p>i believe lmu intends to enroll 1300 students. significantly more students were accepted.</p>
<p>anyway, there is some hope. in 2007, it appears that lmu enrolled ~290 students from the 875 who accepted a spot on their wait list. both of those numbers may be significantly different this year, however.</p>
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<p>She needs to accept an offer of admission from another school before the May 1 deadline. This is crucial. Colleges don’t even look at their waiting lists until after that deadline because they don’t know how many students will say “yes” to them until after May 1.</p>
<p>Then, she needs to make a decision about whether or not to remain on the Loyola Marymount waiting list. That’s a separate matter.</p>
<p>D will stay on one WL, but psychologically, she is moving on with an acceptance she has in hand. If the WL pans out, great. </p>
<p>It’s like planning a retirement–you can buy a lottery ticket to fund your retirement, but you can’t count on winning. Best to work and save. But, hey, if your lottery ticket is a winner, then you can celebrate.</p>