AN ACCEPTANCE FOR TWO PLEASE
I was accepted to my first program in mid-November. However, Riley did not receive his first acceptance until April (he had many wait-lists positions before that time).
This period was really challenging for us, because he felt that he was holding me back, and I felt guilty for my successes. We did our best to support the other, and that was important. Riley would genuinely celebrate my acceptances with me by taking me out for ice cream. I would do my best to support him and encourage him when he got down on himself.
I don’t know for sure, but what I think made the biggest difference for us in regards to our acceptance to the same school was that we each wrote a letter of intent.
Do your research. Not all schools consider or accept letters of intent. But in our case, we were both on the waitlist for our top choice program. Both Riley and I wrote a letter of intent to the program, conveying what we liked about it, why it was our top choice, what we have accomplished since submitting our applications, and that if we were both accepted, we would for sure attend the school.
Within a month, both of us received our acceptances to that program. We also wrote letters of interest to other programs we were both waitlisted for, or programs in which one of us was accepted and the other was on the waitlist. We withdrew from all the other programs after our acceptance to our top choice. So, I am not sure if the other letters of interest would have made a difference.
