How to Get Off the Wait List and Into College

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College Mom of WA 11:50PM May 07, 2011

My husband's and my families paid for our undergrad education and we decided we would pay for our kid’s undergrad as well. So we only had two kids, saved and now are in the position to send them to great schools without help or hardship for us in retirement. We both work full time and we both have advanced degrees. If we had left college with debt we would not have been able to get the additional education that has enabled us to be "well off" now. I am sure that is why parents will go to great lengths to help kids get a good education. Now more than ever a college education is essential for success. Everyone has to decide for what is right for them as a family. America has a long history of families moving up by making education a priority and I applaud parents working to get their children a good education.

Mary of CT 11:50AM March 19, 2011

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Nmalcrpb of MO 8:39PM July 13, 2009

Honestly, parents are typically the ones who push their children to enter these $40,000+ a year schools. Of course they are raiding their retirement funds, nothing like bragging about how little Johnny went to Harvard. If you really want to teach your kids something, let them go to the college of THEIR choice, then let them pay for it.

Nika of WA 9:48PM May 05, 2008

I worked myself through college and none of my family even remotely thought of contributing to paying for my education. These days parents are raiding their retirement funds to pay for their children's college education. Children are too spoiled. If the parents cannot afford to pay for their children's education, let the kids go to work and put themselves through college or take out loan and pay it back themselves. Don't burden your parents with it. They do not owe their kids an education. Besides, not everyone has to attend college. There are many other venues for a decent education where they can earn an honest living.

Brits Donossian of CA 2:11PM April 29, 2008

There's one little school that loves me
and one little school that don't;
and why can't I long for the school that love's me
instead of the one that don’t!

Jeanne of NY 1:49PM April 27, 2008

There one little school and loves me
and one little school that don't;
and why can't I long for the school that love's me
instead of the one that don’t!

Jeanne of NY 1:47PM April 27, 2008

Anissa
give a copy of this article to your friend that want to go to VT.

Miguel R. Flores of TX 9:46PM April 23, 2008

Here are three of the five suggestions from the article "How to Get Off the Wait List and Into College" and some important anti-duh observations on them.
1) Choose among the colleges at which you have been accepted. This is obviouslyf or those waitlisted students who don't understand that the waitlist is a waitlist. What more than duh can we say?
2) Don't automatically ask to stay on wait lists. This is sometimes also called the Woody Allen reverse psychology ploy. Woody, way back when he was funny, didn't want to be a member of any club that would accept him. Waitlisted students can escape this conundrum by removing themselves from the waitlist of the schools that they really want to go to. If the reverse psychology works, and the spurned school quickly calls back with an offer, teach them a lesson: turn them down and go that fourth or fifth choice school. What we call duh to the highest power.
3) Be eager and creative but not scary or desperate. No comment needed. Not even another duh. It's there between each phrase. (Be eager, dugh, and creative but not, duh, scary or desperate). Hear that kids. Don't be scary in trying to get off the wait list.

Morty Fied of MA 11:04PM April 19, 2008

Top schools are very proud of and protective of their reputations and want students who are excited about getting in. After weeding out applicants by HS classes, grades and test scores, there are still many times as many applicants as openings. What sets students apart is how good a "fit" the student is for the particular school compared to another top school.
Wanting to go to "an ivy league school" won't get you into any of them no matter what your grades are. You need to be excited about a specific school and explain why you are a good fit and why having a graduate such as yourself can be an asset to the school's reputation for years to come. If you'd as soon go to Yale as to Harvard then don't blame Yale or Harvard if they'd as soon admit John Doe as you.
...and MIT... better love using science and technology to build stuff and be able to drink math through a fire hose!

Pamela of FL 5:08PM April 17, 2008