Notifing Waitlist students earlier than May 1st

Seashore
Fri, 23 Apr 2010 21:03:31 +0000

I have no idea how they are working the wait list, but it makes a lot of sense to me that they would be accepting a few students before the 1st. One of the biggest problems with waitlists is that students have sufficient time to bond with their former second choice. You pull on the tee shirt, start to picture yourself in your favorite dorm, and tentatively pick some classes. So that by the time that the once-preferred choice comes true, you’ve already bonded with somewhere else. If I ran an admissions office, and I knew we’d be going to the wait list, I’d start to move immediately, definitely before May 1.