College Wait List: The Evil Twin of Rejection

College bound seniors and their weary parents are now in the back stretch of nearly eighteen grueling months of the college application process. The fruits of all this labor come to a head on May 1st, National College Decision Day, when students make their final enrollment choices.

However, this decision-making frenzy may also begin the process for a lesser-known, much less endearing admissions classification: The Wait list. A college wait list can be viewed as a sort of student-purgatory –...