I have been waitlisted at four schools:
JHU
Tufts
BC
Wash U
And I know waitlisting is a lot better than a rejection, but I just wish I could have known for sure what college I was going to. I really was not expecting anything more than one or two waitlists, and I wtill have 7 more schools to find out about (I was also rejected at Georgetown and accepted at Lehigh). Is anyone else in the same boat as me?
<p>I've gotten three waitlists from three schools I really liked (Duke, Davidson, W&M), so I can definitely emphasize. But hey, I didn't get rejected anywhere, so that's pretty good.</p>
<p>I hope you don't get too many more of them and get more acceptances instead!</p>
<p>Thanks... I appriciate it, same to you.</p>
<p>But I just got another waitlist from Bucknell... not that I care, cause Lehigh is a better school than Bucknell and I would rather go there.</p>
<p>Trying to figure out this wait list thing. I'm told that if you go to schools with relationships with the college they'll waitlist most rather than reject, but they'll never take those kids off the wait list. So my question is do you go to a good private or magnet school?</p>
<p>I go to one of the top 20 schools in the nation based on Worth Magazine's rankings.</p>
<p>So, is it a good sign if you absolutely don't come from a school like that?</p>
<p>That's what I was afraid of. So do my kids and so many at their school were waitlisted at top schools, few outright rejected. What is your counselor telling you?</p>
<p>Flipchick, probably. If you go to a public school in Indiana, adcoms are probably not afraid of insulting your college counselors and making your school look less desireable! Prospective parents are not choosing such schools by colleges books in which wait lists look much better than rejections.</p>
<p>heh. waitlisted at Harvard, Yale, and MIT. </p>
<p>lucky me.</p>
<p>You have a point zagat, at my school (top boarding prep) almost everyone is waitlisted and not rejected.</p>
<p>got waitlisted at smith and reed..probably oberlin too. ah man, i got owned.</p>
<p>dude, i applied to 5 schools: duke, swarthmore, wash u, northwestern and emory</p>
<p>rejected from 3 (duke, swat, northwestern), waitlisted at 1 (emory), and somehow accepted at wash u.....thank god. college admissions is SUCH a crapshoot.</p>
<p>My counselor says that he will know how my chaces look after May 1st.</p>
<p>Waitlist #6... at Colgate. Rejected at NYU.</p>
<p>Waitlist #7... at CMU. Great, this is just great...</p>
<p>dude. i got so college owned. i got waitlistd at smith, reed AND chicago, and havent heard from oberlin. and those 4 were my top choices, haha</p>
<p>sorry man....</p>
<p>Call it stupid, but I was looking forward to making a thread in "college search and seletion," asking people to help me pick a college. But I guess that is hard to do when you have only been accepted to one college :(</p>
<p>Well.. be happy you got accepted to at least one.. I mean, think about how you would feel right now if you didn't get accepted anywhere :) cheer up~ and Good luck with the waitlists.....</p>
<p>Thanks... will do. And you are right, I should be happy that I am going to one of the top 40 schools in the nation.</p>