If you don’t enroll by 5/1 in ANY college that admitted you, then you are giving up that admissions spot.
EVEN IF YOU ARE ON A WAITLIST to your favorite school, you MUST enroll by 5/1, meaning pay the enrollment deposit,SOMEWHERE.
If you choose not to enroll anywhere by 5/1, then know that this could mean that you won’t be attending college at any of those places this fall who accepted you. THIS IS NOT A WISE CHOICE.
Let’s say you pay enrollment deposit at College A, but your tippy top favorite is College B. College B offered you a spot on the waitlist and College B is REALLY where you want to go. DON’T plan on College B’s waitlist coming through…even if you really really really hope it does.
IF College B, over the summer (after 5/1) comes back to you and says, “Guess what? You’re on the waitlist and now we have a spot available for you to enroll for this fall! Pay your enrollment deposit,” then: (a) decide if you still want to attend College B; (b) if you DO still want to go, pay enrollment deposit at College B; (c) notify College A that you’re not going to attend; (d) expect that you will NOT get any enrollment or housing deposits back at College A.
Also, section C2 of the CDS (Common Data Set) of a college has wait list information. This will list:
number of applicants offered a place on the waiting list
number accepting a place on the waiting list
number of wait-listed students admitted
There’s a lot of variety from 1 college to another with how many people get admitted off the wait list, so look at each college’s CDS in order to get an idea of how hard, or not, it is to get an enrollment spot on the waitlist.
Some colleges might admit a lot of kids off the waitlist, whereas other colleges may only admit a few.
Looks like D26’s college has loaded her AP and ACT scores into her ‘transfer credit’ section of the Next Steps online portal. Looks like they’ve mapped her AP scores to what the equivalent courses would be, but haven’t logged it as course credit yet. She’s going to email the advisor to ask about it.
I suspect that her advisor has to now do something to log each of those as course credit at the university, and then it’ll show up a little differently on the portal.
The good news is they did receive the correct scores and everything. AND everything is mapped out to the courses we expected based on the university’s website that lists out what you get for which test scores.
I’m a little relieved that this is getting squared away. With D24, we had a couple of challenges with her college not having received the score report from College Board and had to request stuff 3 times in order for it to finally show up.
Slightly misleading, because in the past 4 years of the Cal waitlist, only one year (Fall 2023) had a greater than 1% offer rate from the waitlist. That year was an outlier. It’s probably best to expect an offer rate below 1% again.
Daughter just got into Colorado College -and it’s affordable! We didn’t expect this one to come through - but super excited! They have some research areas that she really likes…we have to discuss the block plan approach but I think she’d really like it.
S26 made his decision and will be going to Alabama! He had a lot of great options but the NMF $ and a great ASD support program made it too hard to pass up. Location is the biggest drawback, 6+ hours drive and no great flight options but since he’s the youngest we have more flex to get back and forth and can figure that out.
D20 is a Clemson grad and D23 is at Ohio State so we’re joking that they all managed to pick the 3 “cult” vibe schools that people love to hate.
I’m not familiar with Colorado College at all, but I feel like I’ve heard the dean of admissions on more than one episode of YCBK – and I always thought she sounded really reasonable, and that the school had good policies. Just my two cents, LOL.
She’s also gotten a bunch of waitlists but we are super happy with her options! She’s got a weird high school path, so we weren’t sure what to expect and the early results were mixed.
