Husband blames me for S's waitlist

menloparkmom
Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:31:56 +0000

“He is thinking that tomorrow is the only window of opportunity to have his gc contact the regional rep.”

No, no,no,no,no…1] wait lists can extend into the Summer. He has plenty to time in teh next month to ask his GC to contact the college he is WL’d at. At this point, 1 week before acceptance decisions by college are announced, you can be sure those decisions have already been made. After April 1, colleges don’t “second guess” the reasons why a WL’d student contacts them . They wont even have a CLUE how deep into their wait list they can or may have to dip, until after May 1, when accepted students have to make their decisions. Then, if their yield is too low, that is when colleges go to the wait list to fill the class.

“I would also guess that if he is offered a spot and denies it, then that will really make the high school look unprofessional, and my son, and that wouldn’t be good”

2] Turning down a wait list does not reflect badly on a HS in any way UNLESS the student tells the GC specifically to tell the college- this student WILL matriculate there if taken off the wait list, and then the student changes his mind. But that’s not a really, really big deal. [ Letting a Student apply ED to more than one college, now THAT will get a GC and a school in trouble] Students who actually have committed to colleges, and sent in their deposits, sometimes change their minds in the summer- that can happen if they finally clear the WL at another college- it’s called “summer melt” and colleges expect a certain amount of that to happen too.