<p>I got on the waitlist for Yale. I was rejected by all the other ivies I applied to and Stanford. I really want to go to Yale. What should I do to maximize my chances of getting in off of the waitlist?</p>
<p>I want to contact my area’s admission officer but I don’t know what to ask them.</p>
<p>I also don’t know what to put in a letter of intent.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance for the help.</p>
<p>I don’t know what you mean “getting in off of the waitlist”. Do you mean you wish to be removed from consideration, and removed (‘off of the waitlist’)from the waitlist? Or, do you mean you are currently on the waitlist but wish to be accepted(‘getting in’)?
Perhaps if you could be clearer here, and well-spoken to your prospective college choices you might be <em>bumped up a bit</em>.</p>
<p>Good luck with whatever your college choice.</p>
<p>cmc4me, I think your post was perfectly clear.</p>
<p>But I think that your chances of getting into Yale off of the waitlist are very slim.</p>
<p>If you had said “I was accepted by Princeton and Columbia, but I would really prefer to go to Yale, where I was waitlisted,” I would have said that you had a chance. A student who was accepted into colleges of similar selectivity to Yale would probably be near the top of the Yale waitlist.</p>
<p>But in fact, you were rejected by all of the Ivies to which you applied – and perhaps these included schools in the Ivy League that are substantially less selective than Yale (Dartmouth, Cornell, Penn, Brown). </p>
<p>If you were not accepted by any colleges of similar selectivity to Yale (Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, Stanford), and especially if you were not accepted by the less selective Ivy League schools, it is not likely that you are near the top of the waitlist at Yale.</p>
<p>There is no harm in staying on the Yale waitlist or even in sending an e-mail to your area’s admissions officer saying that you still have a very strong interest in attending Yale. But I don’t think you should get your hopes up too far.</p>
<p>I agree that you should not get your hopes up. </p>
<p>Follow the directions that Yale gave you in your waitlist letter. An email to the admissions rep wouldn’t hurt, but probably won’t do much. </p>
<p>If you have significant accomplishments since your original application, then I would recommend that you write up a letter that describes them, as well as your desire to attend Yale and send it in. You have nothing to lose by doing this, provided you are supplying new information.</p>
<p>Love the one you’re with.</p>
<p>The getting “in off” confused me. Apparently the Op meant getting admitted from the waitlist. Thanx for clarifications.</p>