<p>1) Lurk more, post less.</p>
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<p>I’m not saying this to be insulting or to say that we don’t love you or hope you won’t contribute. But until your situation resolves itself one way or another, it will do you no good to post messages here.</p>
<p>If you want to chat, maybe you can go to the CC Cafe. But there is nothing to be gained by posting here and there is – potentially – something to lose if you do. Again, bearing in mind that, as a rule, the odds are long for WL candidates, you’re not in a position where you’ll want to weaken your chances of getting in to a school that you’ve decided by now is a school worth clinging to…and perhaps attending even though you’re going to miss out on the revisit.</p>
<p>Even if you post information that you regard as “self-serving” it’s not going to help. But there are any number of ways that it could come back to bite you in the virtual posterior. You can’t do anything about the stuff you’ve posted here over the past months, buy you can do something about the stuff you’ll post here between now and the Day of Reckoning for your wait list outcome: DON’T POST HERE.</p>
<p>Do lurk…and hopefully you’ll come across some useful information. But keep the lowest of all profiles.</p>
<p>At least that’s my advice. I know it’s not really that spectacular. Sort of like saying don’t walk in front of a fast-moving freight train. Duh. It’s not like heeding that advice will make you live long and prosper. OTOH, failing to heed it is not likely to lead to a happy ending.</p>