Those who got waitlisted - Did all of you get PRIORITY Waitlisted? Or anybody got REGULAR Waitlisted?
S21 rejected.
Rejected
My twin boys got waitlisted for SCS. They made it to UIUC CS, and at UC Berkeley one got in, while the other got WL. Congrats to all who got accepted!
S accepted
Cannot find financial aid information on portal . Any help?
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Me either… I am thinking we didn’t get any? I did found a spot in the admitted information it could possibly come with mailed packet.
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Good golly we will need something!
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does anyone know what the chances look like if we accept the priority waitlist?
Son accepted to SCS! Best wishes to all.
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About 5% probability, in my estimation. In some universities it has varied widely. For example UCSB accepted a lot of applicants from waiting list last year. But that was because of the pandemic and is not expected to repeat.
Accepted to SCS! I looked at the decision over an hour ago and I am still shocked.
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Rejected. This one threw me a bit. All of the others I have taken in stride, but since the acceptance rates (in normal years) for Carnegie and Haverford were similar, I assumed my chances for both were similar. So far I’ve been accepted to 2 instate schools with scholarship as well as UC San Diego and Haverford. Been rejected from Swarthmore, MIT, CalTech, GA Tech, and Northwestern. Not seeing much hope for University of Southern California, and no hope at all for Harvard or Stanford. I’m thinking my extracurriculars must have done me in. I had math team and quiz bowl, plus some volunteering and tutoring, as well as some regional competitions I was selected to compete in by my teachers. And my essays, while I think they were very good, I’m sure they could have been better. I think I assumed my scores and grades would outweigh any lacking I had in my extracurriculars. It’s okay though, I’m just thankful I do have a few choices, although I do wish now I had applied to more schools! lol
My stats are 3.89 UW, 4.98 W. 9 AP classes, 36 ACT, 1550 SAT
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Sorry, I was responding to another post, not to @petilon.
Admits from waitlists vary widely by Universities, and I am guessing, by departments within a Uni. For CMU, the overall number is a paltry 4%, and it may be much lower for SCS. By contrast, Berkeley admits a much bigger % from its waitlist. Here’s data shared by @Gumbymom on Berkeley (I wish CMU had similar numbers):
2020 Waitlist:
applicants offered a place on waitlist: 8,753
accepting a place on the waitlist: 5,043
admitted: 1,651
2019 Waitlist:
7,531
3,975
1,098
2018 Waitlist:
7,824
4,127
1,536
Those stats are incredible. Sorry you are getting so many rejections. It isn’t you, it is the weird admissions process, where colleges try to predict who will accept, use data analytics, yield protection and so on. This is unfortunate. Students need to be able to control their own destiny through hard work. That’s only possible if guesswork and data analytics and so on is minimized.
Waitlisted for physics.
I suggest not trying to draw conclusions from previous decisions . . . different readers, different essays, different admissions rubrics, different applicant pools, different college needs / priorities will make outcomes very different. The top 20 schools have room for over 1% of incoming freshman, the top 40 room for about 3.5% . . academically, you seem to be comfortably in the top 1% so if you can’t point to a common application factor as being disastrous (a bad common app essay or LoR, for example) then you have every right to remain optimistic about USC. The GaTech rejection is surprising and I would tend to look at that as the outlier for now. My daughter was also rejected at GaTech, MIT and Swarthmore . . . then accepted at CMU, UMich and Cooper Union . . . I think GaTech might be throwing darts this year. 
Good luck.
Waitlisted MSC.
Sorry* Waitlisted to Mellon College of Science
Hey Guys,
I have this weird thing at the bottom of my decision letter (GE:rd). What does this mean?