Waitlist to acceptance stories?

ExieMITAlum
Fri, 25 Mar 2011 21:40:58 +0000

IMHO - once you’ve made contact and did a quick follow-up, you have to give it time. The problem is that a lot of people with multiple acceptances are doing revisits. I remember last year we were doing revisits schedule only days before the deadline.

So the next real opportunity may be after April 10th when schools have had time to count the contracts sent back in. Some parents will push responding until the last possible date because the deposits are 10% of the parent contribution and the deadline corresponds to tax season.

Waiting until the April responses are in to make the next inquiry prevents you from being the wheel that squeaks one too many times. From here on out, just send snail mail additions if applicable (awards, etc) otherwise - you’ve done all you can do and the only thing left is to eat comfort food and ask everyone to send out waves of good karma for you.

(btw - do NOT do what two parents have done recently – the mother of a prospective student I interviewed thanked me for helping her daughter then hit me up to buy Mary Kay from her - commenting that it would improve my skin tone. Another told me about a great way to keep in touch with my BS student but the website was an electronic product for which she’d recently become a distributor, tacky, tacky, tacky. )