<p>Hi people, i got waitlisted from WU.</p>
<p>I see that WU will notify me with decision "no later than May 30th"</p>
<p>By this time, I would already have sent my deposit to another university.</p>
<p>So does this mean I can decide not to attend a university I choose till May 1st?</p>
<p>Yup..........that's what it means and, yes, you lose your 1st deposit........</p>
<p>It means that if you still want to be on Wash U's waitlist, you will need to send a deposit to your second choice school by whatever deadline date they have. Then if you are eventually accepted by Wash U, you can ask for your deposit back from the "second choice" school; you probably won't get it, but you must secure a place somewhere; it's statistically unlikely that you will get off Wash U's waitlist. If you were bright enough to get waitlisted at Wash U, I'm sure you got into some other great schools. The cup is half full, not half empty!</p>
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So does this mean I can decide not to attend a university I choose till May 1st?
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<p>Not sure if I understand this, but usually you have until May 1 to make your decision. Most, if not all, schools have to wait until after this date to begin to tap into their waitlists, because May 1 is the decision deadline for students. So, if your question has to do with accepting an offer and then getting off a waitlist, then I think the answer is that you must decide to accept somewhere (what if the waitlist doesn't come through?) and then, I guess, if and when you do get accepted from the waitlist you contact the school you accepted and tell them. That's why waitlisted students sometimes have to wait until the summer to learn their status.</p>
<p>just to be clear:</p>
<p>--accept school 1, pay deposit (by May 1st)
--get off waitlist for school 2
--tell school 1 you're not going there, lose that deposit
--pay deposit for school 2 and tell them you're going there</p>