For Waitlisted Students

Colleges and Universities A-Z Carnegie Mellon University
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<p>Alan's</a> Carnegie Mellon Page</p>

<p>^
Basiclly talks about the two waitlists, Priority and Regular</p>

<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/carnegie-mellon-university/505840-carnegie-mellon-priority-wait-list.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/carnegie-mellon-university/505840-carnegie-mellon-priority-wait-list.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>^
Priority waitlist thread from last year</p>

<p>If you get put on the priority waitlist, the acceptance rate is pretty high, I actually know a kid who got off it for SCS</p>

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<p>Statistics for 2007-2008</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.cmu.edu/ira/CDS/cds_2007_...0Admission.pdf[/url]”>http://www.cmu.edu/ira/CDS/cds_2007_...0Admission.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<h1>of qualified applicants offered a place on waitlist : 2898</h1>

<p>number accepting a place on waiting list : 290
number of waitlisted students admitted : 82</p>

<p>~10% choose to accept a spot, ~30% Admitted
That may be even higher if you’re on the priority waitlist</p>

<p>In 2008 much less people were admitted but this year because of the financial situation, the waitlist could have a much higher acceptance rate, of course that could also mean that CMU is putting more students on the waitlist instead of rejecting them.</p>

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<p>thanks for sharing this info, im also waitlisted for CIT. </p>

<p>So, I applied only to one school and got waitlisted, do I have the option of choosing between Priority and Regular waitlist? </p>

<p>(still didn’t recieve the snail mail)</p>

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<p>I believe that’s the case though some people in last year’s thread claim that anyone can accept a place on the priority waitlist</p>