This year's applicants - please listen

richs73cas
Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:49:59 +0000

sewbusy

Your son should definitely visit his “Safety” and make a point of visiting the Admissions office. See if he can set up a meeting with a staff member, or if they have Q&A sessions. Make sure they know he was there and is interested !!!
The appearance of a “Lack of Interest” may result in a Wait List decision from a school that thinks he’s using them as a Safety.

My DS#2, (who will be Graduating from his college this May), had 3 rejections from reaches, 4 wait lists - from matches, and two acceptances, one from his Safety, and one Acceptance from a Match that would have been a Wait List but the Admissions office called him in March and asked him why he hadn’t visited the Campus. He cited fall and winter varsity sports that kept him from getting to visit.

But I think that without that call he would have been waitlisted there too. The Admissions Officer was interested in an EC that demonstrated public service and it got DS a Scholarship, but she wanted to make sure DS would seriously consider attending if they offered him admission.

Throughout the process DS had the attitude, “Any school that gets me will be lucky”. He really didn’t appreciate that he needed to sell himself and demonstrate interest.

Good Luck and enjoy your visit to the Campus. :)