A Must Read for Waitlisted Students

If you didn’t receive a flat rejection or an offer of admission in the Regular Decision round, you were placed in waitlist limbo. Oh, the dreaded waitlist. Maybe you’ve been refreshing your inbox every day for weeks even though you knew the precise date and time the college of your … 

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About That College Waitlist

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 … 

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Getting Off That College Waitlist

Parents and students, it is definitely not too late to try to start getting off that college waitlist! Think about it like this. If you’re a bicycle accessories salesman, is the trick to selling bicycle accessories doing absolutely nothing? If you’re a realtor, is the trick to securing clients sitting … 

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Getting off the College Waitlist

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 … 

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