<p>does anyone know the info of last year's waitlist admission?
and how many ppl are accepted this year? how large the waitlist pool is this year?</p>
<p>I just want to estimate the chance for waitlisted applicant,</p>
<p>thank you so much if you could help!!!</p>
<p>the waitlist pool is usually around 200 applicants, in the past years there were times when they took no one off the waitlist and times when they took 20. it is supposedly unranked. perhaps you should shoot them an email to get more specific details (then report back here!)?</p>
<p>Bump. Anyone know how many waitlist spots were offered this year?</p>
<p>i got in off it heh</p>
<p>how？？it is still April..are you kidding?</p>
<p>viv.r -</p>
<p>PCM is a sophomore at Pomona.</p>
<p>yeah, this was a few years ago. and i didnt send them any extra stuff like people recommend you do... you know, the "OH MY GOD I'M WAITLISTED POMONA BUT I REALLY REALLY WANT TO GO TO YOUR SCHOOL, AND I'M AWESOME, I PROMISE!" letters.</p>
<p>my bad..suffermore is great anyway..
I'm just curious:if the letter doesn't work( several ppl off the Northwestern WL last year told me the same thing), why does everyone recommend it?</p>
<p>I don't think it doesn't work, it may have some positive effect, it may have no effect at all (It's hard to argue that it'd have a negative effect).</p>
<p>Logically, the fact that people got in without it doesn't prove that it doesn't work, it just means that NOT writing a letter will not PREVENT you from being taken off the wait list.</p>
<p>btw I rejected my wait list position at pomona. too costly.</p>
<p>im thinking about taking myself off... northwestern is pretty *****in :D</p>
<p>BUMP. If it’s unranked, how do they choose who to take?</p>
<p>Nobody got taken of the waitlist last year if I remember correctly - in fact the yield was way more than expected: 411 freshmen enrolled instead of the desired 390.</p>
<p>I’m also on their waiting list. It sucks that no one got off it last year because more than projected accepted their offer of admission, but the flip side of that is that perhaps this year they will admit a very conservative number, and many will get off the waitlist. Is this plausible?</p>
<p>Hey guys - you are correct in that nobody got off the waitlist last year.
(I was on it last year - I’m a year older than all of you). </p>
<p>Anyways, how it worked for us is that they put kids on the waitlist and said they would let us know later on once everyone matriculated or not. Come a month or two later, they sent out a letter to the majority of the kids on the waitlist saying that the class was full. They then sent a letter out to about 20-30 kids saying that they would offer you a place on the “extended waitlist” and would let you know in early july if any spaces opened up. (In case kids decided to take a gap year for example). Anyways, so then come july all 20-30 of us were rejected and they said the class was absolutely full and they were sorry for keeping us waiting that long. </p>
<p>Of course the letter I got in July was disappointing (esp. since I had been hoping and waiting for so long), but my advice for you guys that are on the waitlist is to just hang in there. If Pomona is your first choice (as it was mine), do you best to let them know that. Send them a letter if you want, that’s what I did, and yeah, of course you could say “well that didn’t work out for you too well did it,” but at the end of the day I did the best I could to get in. Besides, the fact that they didn’t let any waitlisted kids in just means that their retention rate and matriculation rate was really high - which is a great thing after all! It means that pomona is a great place for the kids that are there!</p>
<p>So yeah, things will work out. If you don’t get to go and they don’t let anyone off the waitlist, then I promise things will work out next year wherever you do end up going. College is automatically a cool experience - no matter where you are. </p>
<p>If you guys have any questions or anything don’t hesitate to private message me or reply. Best of luck to all of you!!</p>
<p>@anniehaus: Where are you attending college?</p>
<p>I’m at cornell</p>
<p>@anniehaus: Besides the letter of continued interest, did you send Pomona other supplemental materials (such as another letter of recommendation, new activites/awards, an art supplement, etc.)?</p>
<p>hmm I think there was a notecard or something that I sent that back pretty much immediately. Then I sent my letter of interest. I included “updates” in this. I mentioned how my interest in art was growing and mentioned a few corresponding awards. Other than that though not much had happened in my life since January so I just tried to succinctly say that Pomona was my first choice (I probably spent too much time over-analyzing my word choice but I didn’t want to sound desperate and begging-ish but also wanted to make it clear I liked the school haha).</p>
<p>I then visited campus (which is wayyyy across the country for me haha) and met with my admissions counselor. (I never had an interview, which I now consider to be a huge mistake of mine, oh well, no use dwelling). I met with him for just a few minutes and then spent an hour or so talking with the cross country coach.</p>
<p>After the school year ended I had my final transcript sent. </p>
<p>Then a month or so later I got the extended waitlist email and replied back immediately “accepting” my waitlist spot. I think I also sent them another interest letter at this point. Then early July we all got rejection letters.</p>
<p>BUT!!! I really don’t want this to discourage you guys. I think it really just depends on year to year yield rates. If you decide it is your first choice then yeah, send them a letter, update on awards or anything new or noteworthy in your life, final transcripts, etc. And then hope and cross your fingers like mad.</p>
<p>I’ll certainly be crossing mine for all of you too.</p>
<p>I have a good friend who got off the waitlist my year. He told me he was very aggressive…phone calls, letters, visits, etc. I’m not saying this is what everyone should do, but I think Pomona does like to see strong interest from the people it admits off the waitlist (when it can admit people).</p>