<p>Has anyone spoken to admissions to find out how many people are on the wait list and/or how many people they took off the list last year? I left a message with my son’s admission person but haven’t heard back.</p>
<p>I sent them a message concerning my application and all but no answer yet also</p>
<p>The best way to get in contact with admissions is just to call them because they have tons of people emailing them so it might take a while. Also, does anyone know any tips to help you get off the waitlist? </p>
<p>This is their automatic answer response. I also asked if wait listed students are still eligible for scholarship but they didnt say anythin about that and instead talked about FA so… I guess no more scholarship for us.
"The Admissions Committee reviews our wait list on a regular basis. We strongly encourage students who have been placed on the wait list to submit senior course grades and updated standardized test scores. Sending updated materials may increase your chances of gaining admission to the University. The Committee will make decisions from the wait list as quickly as possible; however, the University reserves the right to hold students on the wait list until August 1.</p>
<p>Our wait list is not ranked. Each student is reviewed on an individual basis. The number of students offered admission from the wait list varies from year to year based on the overall applicant pool. You can find a downloadable PDF of answers to frequently asked questions about the waitlist on the Discover Drexel Portal at <a href=“http://discover.drexel.edu/”>http://discover.drexel.edu/</a>. </p>
<p>In the meantime, we encourage you to file the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) at <a href=“http://www.fafsa.gov/”>Federal Student Aid; if you havent already done so. Having the FAFSA already on file will expedite the financial aid packaging process if you are offered admission to the University. Drexels FAFSA ID number is 003256."</p>
<p>Guys one more thing though. After i sent them an email about the wait list thing they changed my status on the portal to “Thank you for confirming your intention to remain on the Drexel Admissions waiting list.” so to all of you who no longer wants to be on the wait list or has already decided to go somewhere else, please send an email to them saying so to improve others’ chance of getting in (or decline your offer it will be way better).
I know i’ve previously said im done with drexel but still, giving up on drexel means no more music career.</p>
<p>considering my options right now… i really want to be a music indus major. Please help if you can <a href=“Contact Us”>http://www.drexel.edu/admissions/contact/withdraw/</a></p>
<p>Got a call back from admissions person. He said contrary to the way it seems on CC, they did deny a number of students (he wouldn’t give any figures though for this year’s or last year’s waitlist - either how many were on the waitlist or how many were admitted from it). Even though the information on the portal says you don’t have to do anything to stay on the waitlist, you should call to tell them if you’re still interested. If your mid-semester grades are significantly better than last semester’s, or you have any new, better test scores, send those in too. There is one waitlist - not separate ones for each program. Also he said they may start admitting some students off the waitlist as early as mid-April.</p>
<p>I withdrew my application using the link above… Does that mean I’m off the waitlist? </p>
<p>i think so yeah</p>
<p>I just wanna stay on the waitlist to see if I mean anything to them. After all of the hoops I jumped thorough for them, I really want to get in for the satisfaction of telling them no.</p>
<p>@iheartbass42 hahaha i feel you. and yeah just ask for the i20 form from penn state good luck to the rest of you. I know I’m fickle but now i’m really done with Drexel haha</p>
<p>I called them yesterday to let them know I wanna stay on the waitlist and i asked them when we would most likely find out but they are so vague. its so annoying </p>
<p>i know its so bs. I even sent them a copy of my scanned transcripts because my grades improved last trimester but it’s like they don’t give a ■■■■</p>
<p>It’s not that they don’t give a ****, or that they are intentionally trying to be vague and indefinite. I’ll just try to throw in some perspective here. Think of things from the role of admissions.</p>
<p>There is a maximum number of students that can enroll/commit before there starts to be issues (Overflow in housing, class sizes, etc). Now, Drexel understands that not every student that they accept will enroll, so if they want a class of about 200 students (Using lower numbers for simplicity’s sake), they’ll accept maybe 1000 students. Of those 1000, let’s say 75 confirm fairly quickly. Now there are 125 spots/925 students in pool. Over the course of the next couple weeks, more students start to enroll (BC of Accepted Students Days, other college rejections, etc). So now it’s Early/Mid April, and out of the 200-student class, Drexel has 115 incoming students. </p>
<p>Now, hopefully, in addition to the students that enrolled, many acceptances will inform Drexel that they are committed to other schools. So now, there are 85 spots left, and a pool of about 500 students left to fill out. The deadline is closing near, and now the situation gets tricky. Drexel has no idea whether those 500 accepted students are going to commit soon, or are still thinking, or have maybe even already committed to other schools. So what should Drexel do? If they accept a bunch of wait listed students, and then many of the original accepts end up committing, there will be problems with too many students. If Drexel assumes that many of those 500 are going to attend, and they accept very few waitlists, and then neither of those groups provides as many students as accepted, Drexel has less students than it needs. </p>
<p>It’s a very delicate situation. Drexel can make estimates and projections, but ultimately, nobody knows how many students out of that pool are going to end up committing. As a result, until more and more students commit or inform Drexel that they aren’t committing, Drexel can’t do very much. I don’t think it’s accurate to say that they don’t give a **** or that they are intentionally trying to screw anyone over or upset anyone. That would be contradictory to their goal of trying to keep students on board. The reason their answer is so vague though, is simply because they really don’t know, and they think it would be better to tell you so than to set dates for information that they might not be able to meet. </p>
<p>Hopefully this kinda cleared things up for you guys. I know it’s unsolicited and very long-winded. One another thing to note, is that Drexel isn’t the only school like this; Every university in the nation goes through this process. </p>
<p>Best of luck to you guys.
-A Drexel undergrad</p>
<p>Got the offer letter today 
Keep up the hopes guys, I did very badly for my prelims (and the school used my prelim result for my application) but my A level results were quite okay
Got the AJ Drexel Scholarship ($20,000)</p>
<p>Did anyone just get this email?</p>
<p>“Greetings from Drexel! The official deadline to submit your deposit is tomorrow - May 1, 2014. You must submit the $300 deposit by May 1 in order to secure your seat in the entering class.”</p>
<p>Today’s date is 4/26 ?..</p>
<p>@tmthuy were you waitlisted?</p>
<p>On Twitter it looks like a few people have been accepted off the waitlist in the past week - anyone here get in off the waitlist?</p>
<p>Damn it doesnt look so good then…</p>
<p>I haven’t seen anything on twitter? </p>