PhD waitlist - should I email my recommendation writers?

[zh_awk]

So I got waitlisted at the start of March to my top choice Sociology PhD program, and went through the motions of following up to say thank you for letting me know/disappointed I didn't get accepted in the first wave but you're still my top choice/sent an updated resume because a piece I had under review when I applied was accepted for publication that same week. Talked to one of my rec writers who's a professor in that very department, he spoke to the admissions committee chair and didn't get much out of her but has been poking every couple of weeks. 

I intend to reach back out to them tomorrow, as a couple of weeks have passed since I last checked in, but I'm now wondering if it would be of any benefit to reach out to another person who wrote a rec letter for me - another professor in the soc department. If I did, what should I say? I figure something along the lines of 'thanks again for writing me a letter, I heard back and got waitlisted, can we meet to discuss the implications of this'? Or something else? What have people in similar situations done before?

Thank you! 

[Umeow]

Maybe you can ask about your ranking on the waitlist?

[zh_awk]

  On 3/31/2022 at 8:42 PM, Umeow said:

Maybe you can ask about your ranking on the waitlist?

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I actually asked this to the admissions chair who initially emailed me telling me I'm on the waitlist - she told me it isn't ranked, so I got my answer on that one already!