<p>Just thought I would start a thread for applicants who are agonizing over their wait-listed status and wondering what they should do next. Has anyone here been put on the waiting list…?</p>
<p>I’m on the wait-list as well! I’ve been browsing through my other options but I haven’t stopped halfheartedly daydreaming about receiving an acceptance to Bowdoin.</p>
<p>ThaKalp, I hope we both get admitted then ^^. I’m really looking forward to college and I think that the Bowdoin college life will be exceptional. If i am going to spend my next 4years in what will essentialy become my new life, home and community, I have to be able to enjoy it.</p>
<p>I’m on the waiting list too! Bowdoin is my top choice, and I hope there is space for everyone who really wants to attend next year. Still, all of this uncertainty is torture!</p>
<p>I’m also on the waiting list. I am really fond of the campus… Yet the prospect seems so bleak… I am considering taking the offer from NYU Stern. ><</p>
<p>To those of you on the waitlist, are you asking the college where you’ve been accepted to extend the deadline beyond May 1st? Do colleges do this?!</p>
<p>If you are waitlisted, typically you commit to another school by May 1. Then, if a spot on a waitlist opens up and you decide to accept it, you notify the school you originally committed to (and forfeit any deposit) to accept the waitlist offer.</p>
<p>I’m on waitlist as well! I’ve emailed some sort of whyessay, but no reply.</p>
<p>Per the Dean of Admissions at Bowdoin, there are 1,300 applicants on this year’s wait list. Historically, about half respond to stay on the wait list, so there’s about 650 applicants for perhaps 20-30 spots (depending on their yield results). Here’s the article:</p>
<p>[13.8%</a> of regular decision applicants admitted to Class of 2016 - The Bowdoin Orient](<a href=“http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2012-03-30§ion=1&id=1]13.8%”>http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2012-03-30§ion=1&id=1)</p>
<p>hey everyone! I was also put on the waitlist for Bowdoin, but have put off responding while I decided where I wanted to go. However, when I tried to get on the website (bowdoin.edu/admissions/reply) to finally reply it told me that access to that resource was restricted, but it doesn’t give me the option of logging in. Can anyone help me? And yes, I know, shame on me for procrastinating, but if it makes you guys feel any better I’m declining the option to stay on the waitlist.</p>
<p>There was also a postcard that was included with the wait list letter, which you can send back declining the offer.</p>
<p>Last year, the first waitlist applicant was accepted on 2nd May. Has anyone been accepted yet?</p>
<p>i’m on the waitlist too, still waiting to hear!</p>
<p>anyone heard something back? I mean even some sort of emails like ‘We are still evaluating…’ would be fine. Anyone?</p>
<p>I was told, when I visited, that they would start contacting wait-listed students after the second week of may. So starting from next week as it is the 12th of June today.</p>
<p>we got a letter today that said Bowdoin wouldn’t be going to its wait list…</p>
<p>Hi atexasmom,</p>
<p>Our son was also waitlisted and we were hoping that there would be some movement off the waitlist. It sounds like more students accepted their offer than they anticipated.</p>
<p>If you don’t mind me asking, which college/university is your s/d planning to attend in the fall?</p>
<p>Funny, my daughter got a letter today saying that they assumed she didn’t want to be kept on the wait list since she hadn’t responded by the deadline. However, if she had actually responded in the affirmative and they just hadn’t gotten the card, she should tell them that immediately.</p>
<p>Received the same we’re full letter Friday - enrolled at Cornell University.</p>
<p>Just got the same letter in the mail today.</p>