You are a dime a dozen. Sry. How is your current school perhaps it is a better option for you than the schools you were accepted to?
I was accepted to many GLADSCHEMMS schools but my top choice was andover after going I loved the curriculum, teachers, dorms, and people
The only thing that will âprioritizeâ your spot on the WL is that the school finds, AFTER admitted students have accepted or decined their offers of admission, that they have needs you meet. There is no way anyone could know this today.
It may start to become clearer after revisit days.
For you, it is serendipity. Do they need boarders? Day students? Girls? Boys? FA students? Athletes? Etc, etcâŠ
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With wonderful admissions, I think that we would all encourage you to love the school that loves you, and focus your attention on choosing among your acceptances and not pining after a school that didnât select you. Celebrate your success and enjoy this moment!
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Hey, I was waitlisted at Exeter, Taft, Westminster and Suffield. I got the sense that Exeter tends to waitlist and not reject. Any thoughts?
They definitely reject.
Some schools definitely place more students on the WL than theyâll ever need. Some schools place hundreds on the WL to ensure all potential buckets are covered.
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My son was waitlisted at Exeter, Hotchkiss, Choate, and Berkshire School. Got in nowhere. Rejected by Loomis. 
Very low income, African-American, very unusual life-story and personal history of overcoming medical adversity, etc.
His big sister is about to graduate from one of these schools, and now we kind of wonder if the other schools assumed he would be accepted there and bumped him over to the waitlist. (âCopeâ as the kids say.)
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Can somebody give a step by step guide âwhat to do nextâ for students to get off the WL at prep schools in 2025?
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Aside from accepting a place on the wait list, there isnât anything you can do to get off the wait list. Whether you get off the wait list or not is not within your control. So take the pressure off yourself.
Schools go to the waitlist when they find they need more of a type of student. For example if they find fewer girl boarding students accepted a place, they will make an offer to a girl boarding student. They have a bed or beds available in a girlsâ dorm. But all the beds are taken in the boysâ dorm. If you are a boy, or a day student, nothing you can do will make you into a girl boarder, and therefore, no matter how brilliant you are you wonât get off the waitlist.
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Should I send a letter of continued interest to the 9 schools in which I got WL in?
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if the i am on waitlist with does not respond by April 10th, will I have to accept the other offers?
Okay, so my total WL now are- Proctor, Milton, Blair, Berkshire, Williston, Tabor, KHS, Govs and Pomfret. This is genuinely weird.
You will need to accept an offer somewhere by A10 â or go to your LPS.
Love the school that loves you back. You will need to accept an offer most likely, since generally no school will go to the wait-list before April 10. If you get off a wait-list of a school youâd rather attend after April 10, you can tell the first school you changed your mind, but youâll lose the deposit
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whats lps?
Local public school
and also, what is yield?
Yield is number who enroll divided by number accepted. Not every accepted student will enroll, so schools plan fir that by accepting more than they have room for.
Itâs only if more people decline than planned that the wait-list is used. Starting in April, many schools will say they wonât be going to the WL.
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Will school announce if they over enrolled or under enrolled?
I doubt that