<p>or a bad one? discuss!</p>
<p>I would love to hear thoughts on this too as D was waitlisted at her top choice.</p>
<p>I think this will be a pretty good year to be on a waitlist…at least, at expensive private schools. I have quite a few friends who were accepted to very prestigious colleges who are going to state schools/lower private schools for financial reasons.</p>
<p>^Agreed. Also because top schools, trying to manipulate their yield, are like going to be pretty conservative in their acceptances this year, and if kids start leaving for publics, they’ll have to dig into their waitlists.</p>
<p>Just curious where you were wait listed? I was at U of Chicago, and I’m hoping that it is a good year to be wait listed, as I would be pleased to move off it at Chicago :D</p>
<p>yeah, waitlisted at u of chicago</p>
<p>If one is full pay, it will probably be a decent waitlist year at private universities below the top 20 ( or even some within the top 20 except for Wash U who pulls very few of the thousands on their waitlist anytime)</p>
<p>My D was waitlisted at Emerson. We are not looking for any financial assistance so are hoping that might be a plus in her favor.</p>
<p>How exactly does the WL work? Is it like randomly drawing a name out of a hat?</p>
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<p>I certainly hope not! They have students ranked. I guess if they feel they’re not getting a certain number of deposits by certain dates, they start accepting from the top of their list. Right?</p>
<p>And, yes, if you’re waiting on a list at an expensive school and you’re willing to pay, you may have a good chance. I’m shocked at the number of kids from our high school that are choosing the publics this year.</p>
<p>^I think it’s different for every school. Some have unranked, some have ranked. I could be wrong, however.</p>
<p>A few schools use the waitlist to fill in class “gaps:” i.e. they didn’t get as many of one “type” of person matriculating as they would have liked, and so they take some people off the waitlist who seem to fit.</p>
<p>Oh okay. That makes sense. It seems like a lot of my schools don’t rank the waitlist. The whole process seems very… confidential. -_-</p>
<p>I was wait listed for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute do any of yall what are my chances of getting accepted later on?</p>
<p>This may be a dumb question, but can one accept a waitlist at more than one school?</p>
<p>Very good for private. bad for public haha</p>
<p>is there a deadline for waitlisted…or right up until day classes start are students sent acceptance offers? how does one go about getting into a dorm at the last minute?</p>
<p>Of course you can stay on the waitlist for multiple schools!</p>
<p>S is waitlisted at his top choice schools, we’re hoping againts hope that he gets into at least one of them, Loyola Maryland and Providence.</p>
<p>Although Loyola also has a “priority waitlist” and he’s not on that one, so we don’t think he has any chance at all of getting off that waitlist. They’ll go to the priority list before the non-priority list. I have heard of so many kids on Loyola’s waitlist…it must be enormous.</p>
<p>bigbluemom: in 2008, we knew someone pulled off of Uwisconsin-Madison’s waitlist after she had started college elsewhere…</p>
<p>I do know that some colleges say their lists aren’t ranked. I don’t know what a mess that must be. </p>
<p>Yes, you can stay on all the waitlists you want.</p>
<p>Yes, you can stay on them very late. There is “summer melt” where people who have accepted one school, come off a waitlist for another so they cancel their acceptance. So that FIRST school then might go to their waitlist. </p>
<p>My opinion on whether or not it’s good? I THINK it’s a great year to be on a top private school’s waitlist. Always still very competitive. But, seeing the increases in applications, they are probably going to have a hard time guessing their yield this year. These same kids who brought up the applications are probably just applying to MORE top schools…knowing their chances are getting slimmer each year. So…I think there should be more cross admits and therefore more kids not accepting their admission. Waitlist here we come. But…might be wishful thinking.</p>
<p>I know I’m already asking my daughter to consider what additional materials she’ll send to update schools and continue to show interest…if she’s lucky enough to be waitlisted anywhere.</p>