<p>I was waitlisted, and my hopes were so diminished I almost gave up on ND. However, my mom made a good argument that with the economy as bad as it is, many more people may opt to go to a cheaper school than pay the tuition at ND. I, though hopeful, still thought ND would probably plan ahead for a lower yield rate and accept a larger group of students than normal. What are your thoughts on this? Is there a greater cause for hope for waitlisted students this year than others? Should I accept the fact I won't be attending my dream school and just start settling in somewhere else? Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>Whether what she is saying is true or not, I would not “accept the fact I won’t be attending my dream school and just start settling in somewhere else.” I would always keep the hope alive if it is your dream school, and one of two things can happen. You can get accepted off of the waitlist or you can not get accepted off the waitlist, in which case you can still go to a good college and if you want you can transfer into Notre Dame.</p>
<p>By the way, I do think the waitlist will be used a “little” bit more, not sure how visible it will be to the average person on the waitlist though.</p>
<p>I think ND may have a deeper waitlist this year because it is much tougher than normal for them to predict yield this year. Their yield equations have two variables they haven’t had to consider before: the down economy is the obvious factor but it is also the first year they are using the common application. I won’t be surprised to hear more students were placed on the waitlist this year and expect the percentage of waitlist admits will be higher than in the recent past. Good luck to all of you on the waitlist if ND is still your first choice.</p>
<p>Good point Greta, I didn’t even consider the common app’s effect on yield.</p>
<p>Yes, Notre Dame was my number one choice, and I got my waitlisted notification today, I"m in So. Cal for all those who are watching where the results are coming from…Now what? I got in to Duke, UNC, Nebraska & Texas A&M… I asked my ND regional rep to give me the straight deal and not to sugar coat it. I’d rather know right now to move on than to get the “maybe it will work out” because meanwhile the other schools are wanting me to make decisions.</p>
<p>Not sure the transfer option would work for me as I wanted to attend ND business school and I hear you can’t transfer in there.</p>
<p>Sigh!</p>
<p>punkin - well you can’t technically transfer into the b-school. but if you transfer to ND you have to take a year in your college - CoS or A&L before moving to the B-school. So it can be done, you jsut will have to take a fifth year and another 50k dollars too. I think that could have been why i was denied when i applied for transfer. i was in the b-school at the institution i enrolled at frosh year, applied for transfer as Liberal Studies and was rejected… but you never know.</p>
<p>snwrider, they won’t let transfers go through the backdoor you mentioned anymore.</p>
<p>hmm. i guess they wised up on it. When i applied last year after my frosh year the transfer advisor said that was the loophole in the process with the closing of transfers into the B-school or architecture school. I guess they have changed it then since then.</p>
<p>They closed it a few years back. Perhaps they reversed it? They closed the 1 year and switch rule for the incoming 2005 transfers.</p>
<p>According to the College Board, Notre Dame had 789 students accept a waitlist spot last year and of those, 98 were accepted. In the letter ND sent out to waitlisted students, they said they anticipated 700 people to join the list.</p>