did you get the waitlist offer recently?
Do you mean email about remaining on the waitlist or an offer to come off?
Has anyone heard of any more movement
No. On the parent page there are students who accepted positions off the waitlist and have no housing. One said that housing told them this is unprecedented to have a housing waitlist at this late date. Sounds like they have accepted more people than they have dorm space for. Given this on the ground info I think itâs highly doubtful anyone else will be accepted.
My guess is they close the waitlist in the next week giving out transfer pathways to students on the waitlist that qualify.
Sounds like this is become a common problem at colleges this year.
I sound like a broken record, but I felt bad for last yearâs graduates, felt pretty bad for our own this year, but think next yearâs seniors might have it worse, although they should at least have a full senior year in person.
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I would be interested to know your thoughts on why do you think it actually could be worse than this year? I really canât imagine much worseđ. My nephew is applying and is high stat from an elite boarding school with reasonable expectations so I think he will be fine. Who do you think will be impacted next year and why?
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Was hoping to see Some movement since today is Thursday
Iâm obviously no expert, but tbh I donât think anyone after this year can say theyâre an expert and no one should pay any of those people a dime after how completely wrong they all were!
Anyway, many schools are going TO again, that hurt a lot of kids that normally wouldâve gotten into some of the top tier schools and this year didnât. Whether itâs because it gave schools a reason to take a chance on different kids, go for diversity, think out of the box, look at kids they never wouldâve had a look at before or just because they wanted to, it changed the whole make up like never before. So I think that is one thing that is going to cause ED applications at these huge reach schools to be even greater than last year. Afterall, if Joe Smith got into School A last year, why canât Jane Smith try this year? More kids like that who never thought it was possible, will now be gunning for those schools. Also, a lot of them waived the application fees, so that also gives kids incentive to apply. After last year, I think more kids will be applying to more schools and earlier, since people had expected numbers to be lower in the ED round last year, but as they were revealed, there was a frenzy of students who wished they had applied to more schools in the EA round since they then knew their chances were much slimmer than the âexpertsâ led them to believe.
Next, with the number of schools that over-enrolled this year due to the unexpected high yields, I think schools are going to try to do something to offset this and hold back on their acceptances this year and possibly go for smaller classes. Purdue has a housing issue for 2500 kids. They canât handle another one like that, especially if the plan was to close some of these dorms, not be in the position of having to keep them open. Michigan too is using a dorm that has been rumored to be closing for at least 3 years already and houses something like 1200 freshman. Of course, if they close it, no clue where they put those 1,200 kids either as there are no new dorms. That would also mean smaller classes, less upper classmen in dorms, or less freshmen in dorms since they donât require on campus living for anyone.
Third, foreigners. Again and unknown like last year. A lot probably canât come this year, or didnât accept their admissions and deferred their enrollment. So those spots are taken already.
You also have students who took a gap year in general whether it was to wait and see about covid mandates, or other covid issues or just because. Crowdedness, other reasons, etc.
More students applying to more colleges after watching the cluster this year. I think even more will end up on waitlists than our kids, and more will be taken off unlike ours since schools will take less in EA and less in RD to protect yield this time. Over enrollment is costly for them because some donât have the resources not just in housing but also in terms of classroom space and professors to teach the classes.
Lastly, back now to the covid factor. If schools let anyone take a gap year again because of covid fears, then those kids will be back in the mix. IMO everyone shouldâve been aware of this as an issue and if you were worried about it, then you should have only been looking at schools that you know were doing a good job and dealing with it, but not everyone thinks that way, so there is that.
Anyway, just my two cents. There may be things I missed, but those are what I can think of.
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Anybody here when the waitlist will closed?
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I agree housing is a common issue it seems, but GT seems to have created this to some extent. There are kids pretty far down on the housing waitlist that paid their deposit by May 3 (the cut off). Donât know when they paid dorm deposit though which affects where you are on the waitlist. Then they accepted more people in several waitlist waves. They clearly are not having the melt they expected! One parent called housing and was told her son (accepted early but I guess didnât pay til the deadline) was 40 on the waitlist and needed to find off campus housing. They can apply in the spring so they are looking for a short term lease. And who knows if they will get it in the spring?
Yeah, I cannot understand why schools are doing that. Itâs almost like the left doesnât know what the right is doing.
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This whole year seems so odd, unpredictable and outside the norm in every way from
Admission to waitlist and now housing. I donât Totalky understand why
Any word on the waitlist closing?
It sounds like they send regular updates via email to the students, so Iâm sure once they close theyâll let you know! But it also does seem like they donât have enough housing and many freshman classes are online, so keep that in mind even if they do let anyone else in from the waitlist.
Do you think the new cdc mask guidelines will affect students coming in august?
Affect them in what ways? The masks guidelines are throughout the country and only guidelines.
I thought with the resurgence maybe students would or could bit come. It could be a little bit of wishful thinking. Lo
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As a parent of 2 tech students, rent in the apartments the students live in midtown isnât much more than the dorms. (The Standard, SQ5, The Mark) All of these buildings are very close to campus. Something to consider if that is a deciding factor.