<p>I got waitlisted at Tufts, and I really really liked the university before I even visited it (their philosophy, standards, and overall community sounded really convincing); I also got into NYU, and while I really like NYU, I still want to be considered on the waitlist for Tufts.</p>
<p>Now I know that this year they aren’t expecting to use the waitlist, and I don’t know how many people are going to be on the waitlist, but I was contemplating whether or not I should go ahead and put myself on the waitlist - my parents, who don’t have a college background, were really set on NYU primarily for its location and partially because they didn’t like the sound of “waitlisted”; they felt that Tufts considered me a second-rate student, and they asked me why they should allow me to push for a college that didn’t take me the first time around. </p>
<p>This isn’t to sound arrogant, e.g. writing under the impression that I got offered a spot at Tufts, but I don’t want to take up a spot for another person who really really wants to go there and had their hearts fully intent on going there (and don’t have other comparably good schools to choose from). But I really do want to put myself on the waitlist, to write to Tufts expressing my interest. But how do I convince my parents of that? They visited Tufts and their judgment of the school was already marked after I got waitlisted.</p>