What to do when waitlisted

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What to do:

  1. If you really, really love a waitlisted school take the time to write them a compelling letter of affirmed interest and also have your school counselor lobby their admissions rep. It won’t immediately help but sometimes can help if/when they go into the waitlist pool.

  2. Once that is done, be totally clear in your mind that your waitlist status is a firm no. Do your best to get excited about a school that was a yes. Declare your intent to go. Buy some SWAG for the yes school. Tell people. Make plans. Because the odds the waitlist are going to come through are usually less than the odds you would get in in the first place so holding out hope is usually destructive to getting in the right head space for where you most likely will go.

  3. On the extremely low single-digit odds you get contacted about the waitlist, it will be a great surprise. So moving on is a win-win.

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