<p>^That's why you make a deposit somewhere else by the May 1 deadline.</p>
<p>WashU is absolutely using the WL this year, although on a limited basis. The first round of offers has been made and they are waiting to analyze the response before they take further action. There is no indication that they are finished with WL offers for this year.</p>
<p>I am pretty sure that Wash U will notify everyone on the waiting list when there are officially no more openings. </p>
<p>hi<em>skool</em>dropout, I’m not sure if you really didn’t accept a spot somewhere else by their deadline. If you didn’t, thinking you would get off the waiting list, I would start making some phone calls to the schools that accepted you to make sure you have somewhere to go in the fall. Then again, you could have been kidding/exaggerating/making a point, etc. in which case….never mind.</p>
<p>to ALL waiting for the "call" :
Stop stressing! Forget about WashU and move on.
Your chances are about 0.0001%.
And yes they DO rank their waitlist people....if you are not paying full tuition your chances are even worse.</p>
<p>Looking back in this forum, the last date I could find someone who reported being offered admission from the waitlist last year was May 16, 2007. In 2006 I believe Wash U was overenrolled for the class of 2010 and no one was taken off the waitlist.</p>
<p>Every year is different though, but again at the risk of repeating myself, if on May 5, 2008 Wash U was uncertain whether they would need to use the waitlist, then they probably didn't have a lot of spaces left. They did make use of their waitlist a few days later, but now it has been over a week since we have heard of anyone getting off the waitlist. </p>
<p>Schools are just as anxious as applicants to put an end to the uncertainty of the waitlist, and while I'm sure it has not been officially closed it looks to me unlikely there will be many more admissions offered.</p>
<p>Schools know that over the summer they will lose people to the waitlist "shuffle" (i.e., students who had accepted Wash U, getting off the waitlist at another school and then giving up their deposit and spot at Wash U). They also lose people to health problems, family problems, legal problems, financial problems, lousy 2nd semester grades, etc. But they make provision for that. Only if they lose more people than they have anticipated due to this summer attrition will they need to go the waitlist again. They probably won't know that for sure until mid to late June or so and that's approximately when the waitlist will be officially closed, but based upon history, and the admissions office own statements and actions it does not look good.</p>
<p>Again, I hope I'm wrong, but I think it's important to avoid the self-delusion that often happens to people on the waitlist and get on with preparing for the fall. </p>
<p>To those of you on the waitlist, think of it as a lottery ticket. Wouldn't it be great if you won, but really do you lose sleep or stress about whether or not you will win? Do you make plans as if winning the lottery was a distinct possibility? Or do you just go about your life?</p>
<p>emailed wash u asking about the wait list situation. here is the response from Jason Lewis of the Undergraduate Admissions office</p>
<p>"Hi aktiv8d,</p>
<p>Thank you for your Email. We are glad you are still interested in Washington University.</p>
<p>We have recently just begun to admit students from our wait-list. We are proceeding carefully with this process, and we will probably be admitting students for the next couple of weeks. It is difficult to know an exact timeline and how many students, as it is entirely based on students' responses to our offer. If spots become available, we will review applications on the wait-list and select students that match certain criteria and are interested in being a student here. Because there are so many qualified students on our wait-list who can succeed and fit in at Washington University, it is difficult to assign a rank-order to students and even more difficult to offer admission to only a few students.</p>
<p>I will make a note in your application that you are interested in Washington University. Be in touch if you have any other updates or questions!</p>
<p>Best wishes,
Jason"</p>
<p>i called them they said they are still taking people off the waitlist</p>
<p>I called and they said that they are kind of putting this on hold for now until they finally sorted out the numbers.</p>
<p>For the people who are saying that waitlist chances are all but gone, I am wondering who you are and how you got a job in the admissions office. First of all, my GC called WashU yesterday and found out that not only are they not done filling spots, but that A LOT of students who have been admitted off of the waitlist are also on waitlists for schools like Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and other top tier schools.
The point is, WashU is just below the Ivies and that is why they don't get back to you until the end of June sometimes. When someone calls up WashU on June 23rd saying they are going to Stanford instead, a new spot opens up for people like us. And once again, they are still admitting people to fill up the class of 2012, they aren't even at the one-goes-off one-goes-on stage yet!
A message to those who are still on the waitlist: Don't give up hope, but don't assume you have a "good" chance of getting in. If you showed interest since being waitlisted, and you have talked to WashU admissions since being waitlisted, and done everything else that you should do since being waitlisted, you still have a shot.
Hope this raises some spirits,
-jm</p>
<p>I just called the admission office, they told me that those of us who haven't received an offer yet will most likely be rejected, as they have already filled their classes and no more spaces are available now. But, they are waiting for a few spots to open up due to admitted students getting off other schools' waitlists. The chances are very very slim.</p>
<p>Really? Did you get that info directly from an admission officer?</p>
<p>Yes, I talked to an actually admission officer. He also said WashU's waitlist isn't ranked and whether you will be offered a spot will depend on which college you applied to, if a spot opens up for engineering, they will consider the remaining waitlistees who applied to engineering.</p>
<p>don't knock yourself out yet people. on the facebook group, one girl just got off the waitlist today! there's still hope!</p>
<p>i called them they said theyve made intial admissions and are waiting to see how many accept and then will decide on a next round</p>
<p>Is it really true that people are given only 24 hours to decide? That seems rather short, I thought it was a week. Anybody have more information on this?</p>
<p>24 hours to let them know if they should send the enrollment packet if you aren't 100% sure when they call. Once you receive the enrollment packet there is a deadline of about one week to return the form with deposit.</p>
<p>I called and they told me that the class is almost full, so I'm guessing that unless more people withdrew from the university, there is really not much of a chance of getting in as of now. Time to say goodbye to WashU?????</p>
<p>They made a few offers on Friday the 23rd. That may be the last of it I'm afraid. I hope I'm wrong here.</p>
<p>^^^ I'm afraid that may be the case. Oh WashU, how I once hoped to go there. LOL!</p>
<p>Someone in the facebook group just got in off the waitlist today! there's still hope for you guys : )</p>