<p>So I was waitlisted from Georgia Tech and I was just wondering what percentage of people on the waitlist acually recieve an offer for admission?</p>
<p>It depends on how many turn down their offers. The more open spaces, the more they’ll go to the WL. It’s hard to judge.</p>
<p>waitlisted as well :(</p>
<p>Waitlisted :(</p>
<p>i have a friend who got waitlisted, and got accepted early May!</p>
<p>I heard 80% of all early applicants make it in (including those who were deferred)… if that helps at all =/</p>
<p>Well I hope I am in that 80%… that would be disappointing to be on the other side of that statistic.</p>
<p>wait list.
2008 184 waitlist 98 accepted
just wondering when will they let us know the final decision? I need to make a decision,accept other school.</p>
<p>^ Were did you get that from? ^</p>
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<p>Selectivity<br>
Selectivity: more selective
Fall 2008 Acceptance rate: 60.9%
Early decision acceptance rate: N/A
Early action acceptance rate: N/A
Acceptance rate (excluding early action and early decision students): N/A
Fall 2008 Applications, Acceptances, and Enrollments<br>
Number of applicants: 10,258
Number of applicants accepted: 6,248
Freshman enrollment for Fall 2008: 2,640
Percent of incoming freshmen who applied by either early acceptance or early action: N/A
Number of male applicants: 6,932
Number of male applicants accepted for Fall 2008: 4,248
Male freshman enrollment: 1,801
Number of female applicants: 3,326
Number of female applicants accepted: 2,000
Female freshman enrollment: 839
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Does the school have a waiting list? Yes<br>
Number of applicants placed on a waiting list: 184
Number of students on the wait list accepted: 98
Number of students enrolled from a waiting list: 92</p>
<p>tonyecc could you post the stats for international applicants as well please?</p>
<p>Waitlisted! Damn!</p>
<p>How are students selected for fall admission from the wait list? Students on the wait list will be offered admission as spaces become available. If spaces are available, students will receive an acceptance message via e-mail between May 15 and June 1.</p>
<p>My question is we have to accept another school before May 1st, if we receive an acceptance message after May 15, what can we do? Can we reject the previous one and accept GT?</p>
<p>I guess so. I believe other colleges would be prepared for this because all the waitlisted students only get informed after the deadline for accepting a school is over(usually May 1st).</p>
<p>This is what I remember from ajc regarding last year’s waiting list.</p>
<p>There were 400 students were offered for wait list for last year’s class, only 250 students decide to accept wait list. Of that, 150 students were offered acceptance of wait list. So you got about 60% chance if you decide to accept wait list (150 of 250).</p>
<p>So the first step one needs to decide to whether or not accept wait list. The deadline is April 15. There maybe additional materials one needs to provide to help admission officer to decide among 250 students on the wait list.</p>
<p>Since students will receive an acceptance message via e-mail between May 15 and June 1, there is a chance you may have to pay two deposits.</p>
<p>Again, that was just for last year. This year it could be different animal.</p>
<p>I got this data directly from the GT Common Data Set for last year’s freshman class.</p>
<p>Number of qualified applicants offered a placed on waiting list: 450
Number accepting a place on the waiting list: 320
Number of wait-listed students admitted: 123</p>
<p>So, only a 38% chance based off of last year’s stats.</p>
<p>(Source: <a href=“http://www.irp.gatech.edu/Common_Data_Set_archives/Final%20CDS2009_2010.pdf[/url]”>http://www.irp.gatech.edu/Common_Data_Set_archives/Final%20CDS2009_2010.pdf</a>)</p>
<p>However, with the current status of the economy right now, more people might be lead to attend other schools that they might receive more financial aid at (ie. LACs, Private Schools), or where the tuition might be lower. This could possibly increase the amount of open spots available.</p>
<p>is the wait list kind of weighed?.. i mean have they ranked the guys waitlisted… it would be nice to know if there is a realistic chance… if you’re at the bottom of the waitlist or at the top</p>
<p>Well, I’ve been seeing guys with 3.7+ GPAs and 2100+ SATs being wait listed so I think I’m screwed.</p>
<p>I’m more than likely at the bottom of that list of people.</p>
<p>Well then, I guess it is off to Plan B… Oh wait that is right, I got denied at both Plan B and Plan C.</p>
<p>I only have one more then… To Plan D! (Life sucks big time right now…)</p>
<p>Let me preface this by saying that I have no idea how this is being handled… but there are two things to keep in mind:</p>
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<li><p>Right now Georgia is going through a budget crisis and there is a proposal on the table to cut GT’s freshman class by 25%.The final decision on that proposal is in April. In response, if I ran the Admissions Office, I would have admitted fewer students with a bigger wait list. If that proposal is rejected (and it looks like it will be), I would admit a large number of wait listed students that day. Sure you’ll lose some high quality students because they were wait listed, but that’s better than having to rescind admissions offers (imagine the fall out from that).</p></li>
<li><p>GT saw a surge in applicants associated with the economic downturn. It is highly likely that many of those applicants are OOS applicants that normally would have applied to only private schools, but are using Tech as a financial compromise. Historically, private schools (which have seen a good rebound in their endowments over the last year) give generous financial aid, meaning that Tech might have a historically low matriculation rate and need to admit a considerable portion of the wait list students.</p></li>
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<p>Considering both of the above, I would expect Tech to hedge by having a very large wait list pool (apparently what people are seeing), with much of that pool likely admitted (and I know you hope I’m right!).</p>
<p>Well on the admissions posting page I have so far recorded, 5 to 6 waitlisted people, and 10 to 11 people accepted.</p>
<p>Now, if we assume this is a ratio that can will be held up (or stays close to it) over a larger sample of applicants, GP’s theory makes quite a bit of sense.</p>