<p>If you were waitlisted, are you going to stay on the waitlist? Or give up? I don’t even know if it’s worth staying on…what are our chances?</p>
<p>For me it depends on where else I get in… I’m still waiting on Columbia Brown and Vassar. Since I got waitlisted at Wesleyan and Bowdoin I kinda gave up hope of getting in at Columbia and Brown, but if I get into Vassar I’m going and not staying on the Bowdoin waitlist.</p>
<p>IIRC, Bowdoin took a large number of applicants off the wait list last year but very few the year before - the preference is to dip into the wait list so 2007 was a bit of an aberration.</p>
<p>I am waitlisted too.
Bowdoin letter said
If you accept our invitation to be considered for
admission from our Waiting List, you should return the enclosed card on or
before May 1st.
I can’t find any attachment in my email???</p>
<p>Duongviethai- I am sure they will send you the actual letter with the attachment. </p>
<p>Stacyx09- Don’t lose hope. I was WL at Wesleyan but I got into Middlebury and Bowdoin So college admissions are kind of Random.</p>
<p>unfortunately, Bowdoin does NOT fill out the wait list stats portion (section C2) on their Common Data Set (not sure how they get away with that omission)…so if there are any stats out there on how many are put on the WL & how many admitted every year, doesn’t appear the college is anxious for publicity. Perhaps there will be an article in the Bowdoin Orient somewhere on WL history. </p>
<p>Here’s Bowdoin’s CDS history:
[Common</a> Data Set (Bowdoin, )](<a href=“http://www.bowdoin.edu/ir/data/cds-table.shtml]Common”>Common Data Set | Bowdoin College)</p>
<p>note that CDS 08-09, for the class of '12, is not yet posted by Bowdoin, although it certainly should be completed by now…many/most other schools have posted their latest CDS by now.</p>
<p>@ Fig-NEwtonZ : Thanks!</p>
<p>Interesting tidbit about the wait list for Bowdoin (and apparently other LACs as well) - decisions to take an applicant off the wait list are not made on a “need blind” basis . .</p>
<p>torasee–where did you find this out? This has been a big question for this house, and we’re planning to talk to the FA office.</p>
<p>I just found it in [today’s NY Times](<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/31/education/31college.html?ref=us”>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/31/education/31college.html?ref=us</a>). The article mentions that Bowdoin is not need-blind for wait list and transfer applicants. It says the same thing for Middlebury and Brandeis so I would guess that perhaps this is the normal practice for many LACs.</p>
<p>do we have any idea how many people were wait listed? May help understand how many may come off…</p>
<p>[url=<a href=“http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2009-04-03§ion=2&id=1]Wait-listed[/url”>http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2009-04-03§ion=2&id=1]Wait-listed[/url</a>]</p>
<p>According to the Orient, Bowdoin wait-listed 1,150 this year. In the last five years, an average of 30 were accepted off the wait-list.</p>
<p>oh man i would totally take bowdoin’s admission offer should they offer it to me…</p>
<p>That is a sobering stat. i wonder if the economy will change that number?</p>
<p>Your chances are infinitesimally small.</p>