Waitlist success stories

stony32
Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:17:53 +0000

I have a waitlist story from 27 years ago.

I was living in Washington DC and was waitlisted at my first choice for law school there. My second choice, to which I was admitted, was in California. A week before the California school’s semester was to begin, I decided that I had to start the long drive West to find a place to live and get ready to start, so I packed everything I had into my VW and began driving. No cell phones back then, so all I could do was leave my DC roommate’s number with my waitlist school so they could let him know if I got off the waitlist.

After two very long days of driving, I checked into a motel in Des Moines, Iowa, called my roommate and learned that I had been admitted at school #1 about 14 hours of driving earlier. The next morning, I turned around and headed back to DC, enrolled at school #1 and was glad I did.

That was a good ending for me. My advice is to hang in there as long as you can. Schools will often have late no-shows, so you have to be ready to change plans and move if you really want that school that waitlisted you.

Good luck.