12th Graders Waitlisted After The Regular Decision Round
For families who first come to us when their children are seniors after they’ve been waitlisted in the Regular Decision round, the path forward is as follows:
Step 1 15-Minute Consultation
Ivy Coach offers a complimentary 15-minute consultation to parents and students via phone (or Zoom audio for international families) to learn about our college counseling services
Students are not required to join the preliminary call. This consultation is about how Ivy Coach can help navigate the waitlist process.
Step 2 PostMortem
The one-hour PostMortem is with a former elite college admissions officer.
While there’s nothing your child can change in their applications, we must fully understand how they presented themselves so the narrative we help them craft in their Letter of Continued Interest isn’t out of left field. While it may hurt to hear, we’ll also point out the mistakes that can’t be corrected at this juncture just in case your child ever wishes to apply as a transfer applicant. In our experience, even if this makes them upset in the moment, they’ll get over it the next day.
Step 3 Letter of Continued Interest
After we complete the PostMortem™, we help students prepare powerful Letters of Continued Interest, which must go in expediently since many top schools turn very quickly to their waitlists.
The letters that most students submit after being waitlisted do them no favor because they’re filled with brags, updates, and generic sentences that can apply to virtually any college. That’s not the approach of Ivy Coach’s letters. In a word, Ivy Coach’s letters, which we brainstorm and fastidiously revise after the PostMortem, are weird — and it’s a big reason why they so often work.
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