Husband blames me for S's waitlist

breathedeeply
Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:13:44 +0000

Roshke:
Breathedeeply, If your son is at this point having second thoughts and would take an offer of acceptance from the waitlist school, I would urge him to contact the regional rep and make it clear that if offered a spot at that school he wlll definitely attend.

Question:
My son is in deep consternation over this. He is thinking that tomorrow is the only window of opportunity to have his gc contact the regional rep. as by the end of the week if he makes the contact, then they will assume he was denied or WL at his reaches. We’re new at this, so I don’t have an answer for him, but assume that’s the way this plays out. 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. Is that how this works? Personally, it doesn’t seem fair that the colleges can ‘play’ with the applicants, but they can’t ‘play’ back.