Now that all the college acceptances are out, there is still one question that often perplexes students:
How to get off the waitlist of their dream college
And the answer is…..
It’s not easy.
The truth is that colleges have very large waitlists. But if you’re serious about getting off the waitlist, you might do the following:
a) Write to them, expressing your great interest
b) Even better, visit them. I have heard of a girl who got off the waitlist at Wake Forest when she visited the college and impressed the admissions dean. Even though they really had no room for her, they accepted her. It didn’t hurt that she had was not asking for any financial aid. Which leads me to my next point.
c) be prepared to pay fully. As in, don’t ask for any financial aid. Colleges are notorious for only taking “full pay” students off the wait list.
d) And finally, why not consider one of those schools who did accept you? Chances are, you will be just as happy there!
Juliet Giglio
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Mark Montgomery
Mark is the Founder and CEO of Great College Advice, a national college admissions consulting firm. As a career educator, he has served as a college administrator, professor of international relations at the University of Denver and the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, program consultant at Yale and the University of Kansas, government instructor at Harvard and Tufts, high school teacher of French, and a Fulbright teacher of English in France. He has personally helped hundreds of students from around the world map their college journeys. Mark speaks on college preparation, selection, and admission to students and parents around the world, and his views have been published in major newspapers and journals.
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Mark is the Founder and CEO of Great College Advice, a national college admissions consulting firm. As a career educator, he has served as a college administrator, professor of international relations at the University of Denver and the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, program consultant at Yale and the University of Kansas, government instructor at Harvard and Tufts, high school teacher of French, and a Fulbright teacher of English in France. He has personally helped hundreds of students from around the world map their college journeys. Mark speaks on college preparation, selection, and admission to students and parents around the world, and his views have been published in major newspapers and journals.