Waitlisted? Don’t worry.

There is so much excitement involved in getting that college acceptance letter in the mail? It’s always disappointing when you don’t get in, but what if you get waitlisted?  What then?  This prospect is very nerve racking because you are in a kind of purgatory where you just have to wait.

The prospect of waiting even longer for a final answer can drive students—and their parents—to desperate acts. “I had one mother last year who called me every single day for two months, sometimes multiple times a day,” says an admissions officer at an Ivy League school. “I finally had to say, ‘Your son is not getting in and you may wish to seek psychiatric help for yourself.’”

But this may also be the year that waitlisted students have the best shot ever of getting in… if they’re smart about it, because more students may turn down their top choices. As the economy continues to spiral downward, admissions officers say they have little sense of what to expect in terms of waitlist activity over the next two months.

Over the last few years, many schools have put more kids on their waiting list to up their odds of filing the openings with talented students.  Many students who are accepted ultimately decide not to go, and then waitlisted students get their chance.

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