EDUCATION
How to Help Your Waitlisted Child Gain Acceptance to His Top-Choice College
From Benched to the Endzone in Ten Simple Steps
Is your child a competitive applicant who was waitlisted by his college of choice? It can be hard to remain upbeat while supporting a disappointed teen.
Here are some tips to maintain your sanity and gain an admissions edge.
- Stay confident.
- Send an email to the admissions office that explains the slight decline in his second-semester sophomore year GPA.
- Think positively and do not cry.
- Offer financial incentives to each of your child’s peer tutors who declines an admissions offer from said-institution.
- Manage expectations. Remember that no matter which undergraduate school your child attends, a “name brand” diploma is not as important as his engagement in the coursework.
- Avoid begging, but consider begging.
- Consider saving a regent’s Kinkalow from an owl’s clutches.
- Play the long game in parenting adolescents by keeping a sense or humor. Don’t forget to breathe.
- Offer proof of your allegiance with a TikTok of your son and extended family burning a rival college’s mascot in effigy.
- Grease the university a fat-ass check.
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