<p>I was just wondering how many people are on the waitlist. I did regular waitlist, is it possible that I will get in? I'm on the waitlist for all engineering majors (except ECE) and I also opened my application up for admission to the mellon college of science</p>
<p>You can call them up on the 14th and ask. They have to go through the people on priority before regular though so they would have to have quite a number of open spots to get to regular.</p>
<p>Yesterday the WSJ published a story on waitlists. It was depressing. There was a statistic for Carnegie Mellon, over 5000 placed on the waitlist (it didn’t say how many accepted a place) and only five were admitted. But as the story made clear, every school has quite a bit of variability; with the number on the list and the number admitted varying.</p>
<p>This is truly depressing. Waitlists just string you along. CMU acts like it will be an admission – even offering the financial aid package, sending an e-mail with a big announcement day on May 7. </p>
<p>Why are they doing this? Is is really worth their effort?</p>
<p>Most students will have moved off to working the acceptance to another college – housing, orientation, deposits.</p>
<p>wow that sucks 
I guess I won’t be going then</p>