<p>My D applied to 14 schools and received offers from three so far. I'd love for her to go to one of the two schools that have her on the Waitlist. Should I keep my hope up? Or is Waitlist only a step above being rejected?</p>
<p>Accepted at Brandeis, Tulane, and UC Irvine so far.
Waitlisted at Washington University at St. Louis and Cal Tech.
Anxiously waiting to hear from Harvard, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Boston College, USC, UCLA, and UC San Diego.
Also, waiting on Boston University and UC Santa Barbara.</p>
<p>GPA: 3.8/4.5
SAT: 790M/760R/690W
ACT: 33
Four-year varsity basketball and volleyball at a small private school in southern California. And tons of extra activities.</p>
<p>BTW, she applied as a Biology major (always talk about being a pediatrician).</p>
<p>Note that it is not required to major in biology to prepare for medical school. The pre-med courses can be taken alongside any major.</p>
<p>You may want to ask on the school-specific forums about each school’s waitlist. But don’t get your hopes up too high.</p>
<p>If you can find a school’s Common Data Set, it will have statistics on waitlisting (how many offered, how many accepted a spot on waitlist, how many offered admission).</p>
<p>I couldn’t find Wash U, but Caltech’s data had:</p>
<p>529 offered a spot
337 accepted a spot on the waitlist
7 offered admission</p>
<p>Doesn’t look great. However, my D is a junior at a school where she was waitlisted. She was offered a spot in June. The next year her school didn’t offer anyone admission off the waitlist. So, it’s theoretically possible, and is a reality for some students.</p>
<p>WashU waitlits just about anyone they don’t accept so don’t count on it. Cal Tech is so tiny but has a more genuine waitlst.</p>