Are college waitlists simply marketing tools of elite universities? Ryan Craig argues as much in a piece today for “Forbes” entitled “The Real Cruelty of College Admissions.” In fact, Mr. Craig writes, “The more elite the school, the less likely it is that a waitlist is anything other than a …
Are more and more students being placed on the waitlists of highly selective colleges? The answer is yes. But is it getting increasingly difficult to earn a slot in an incoming class off a college waitlist? While it’s arguable, we’d say that answer is a definitive no. You see, there’s …
Wondering what to do if you’re waitlisted? Every year around this time, students and parents — coming to Ivy Coach for the first time — ask us what they should do once they’ve been waitlisted. Our first question to these students and parents is always: what have you done so …
If recently your child learned that he or she was waitlisted at one or more Ivy League (or non-Ivy League) universities, all hope is not lost. In most cases that is. We received an email recently from a student who was waitlisted at a highly selective college, an Ivy League college, and …
Maybe your child was just waitlisted at her dream college. Or maybe she’s about to be in a few days. She’s waited all these weeks to learn of her admissions decisions and now she has to wait longer? It seems totally unfair. But it’s a reality. And at most highly …
Many waitlisted candidates for admission to highly selective colleges have been calling and emailing us over these last couple of days (the best way to get in touch with us is by clicking on the orange button on our website and filling out our free consult form — just indicate that …
If you are a student on a college waiting list, know that it is still not too late to try to fight your way off that waiting list and earn a spot in the incoming class. Were you planning on doing nothing and waiting to see if luck would be …
Stuck on college waiting lists? There is an article in today’s “New York Times” by Ariel Kaminer entitled, “On a College Waiting List? Sending Cookies Isn’t Going to Help.” Well, that’s for sure! It never ceases to amaze us how many waitlisted college applicants think it wise to nonetheless send …
There’s a nice op-ed piece in Georgetown University’s “The Hoya” by a freshman, Maggie Cleary, who got off the waitlist at Georgetown and earned a spot in the freshman class. Getting off the college waitlist can be a science. The cardinal rule of accomplishing this is to be proactive, to …
