Waitlisted? Advice for making your best case for an acceptance

oldfort
Sun, 19 Apr 2009 09:07:37 +0000

Having your GC help out is not the same as having your parents do it. It is what GCs are paid to do. If they are doing their jobs, they should have more of an inside track than you. They could say many things and get info that you couldn’t get. Our GC got every kid off two years ago.

If your GC wouldn’t help out (like at many public schools), it is time to get your parents to help out. Your parents could do some leg work for you. I contacted my daughter’s top WL school to let them know I would be in the position to pay full fare and would be very supportive of our daughter to go to their school. Some parents have gone as far as scheduling additional interviews with adcom and were successful in getting their kid in.