<p>I just saw this on my D's school college website and thought I'd pass it along. Have no idea whether IU has had a waitlist in the past, but they have gone that route this year.</p>
<p>1/08: Because of the record number of applications received by IU (25,000 & counting as of the end of December), the University will move to a Wait List this year; you must respond as soon as possible if you want to remain on the WL; you will be notified by IU by the beginning of June with your admission decision</p>
<p>Q.: Will new information be considered as wait listed applicants are reviewed?</p>
<p>A.: Yes, improved SAT or ACT results and/or improved grades may be beneficial. However, no other information (e.g. letters of recommendation, personal statements, etc) will be considered.</p>
<p>So there is probably still time to improve chances of getting in through the wait list by getting a better SAT score and/or submitting an improved transcript that includes seventh semester grades.</p>
<p>My son applied in Nov., got the 4-6 week messge in early Jan., and now has the "wait list" message indicating June. The kicker is he's got a 3.49 GPA and a 23 on the ACT, which makes him more qualified than many of the previously admitted. He is OOS, but up until this point, I've never heard of that being an issue. Oh yeah, this was his safety school. He's already in at three other schools so will decline the wait list (Hope that makes Scout213 a little happier).</p>
<p>Toledo, sorry about the frustration you and your DS are having. The problem is that all the schools are experiencing an extremely high volume of applications, so they're having to turn away students that would normally get in. </p>
<p>I thought the big population in this group of kids was limited to our area, but it seems to be more widespread than that. </p>
<p>Also, it's hard to compare one's child's stats against other students who have already gotten in, because there are other factors that come into play. This is why sharing stats can be meaningless.</p>
<p>and admitted 71%, which was a major drop from the 80-81% they had been admitting every year between 1999 and 2005 when the application numbers were lower.</p>
<p>However, having 25,000 apply by the end of December for a school with rolling admissions implies that the number will go over 30,000 this year (up from 22,000 as recently as 2004). That is a sizable jump. I guess the big question for the administration is just how accurate their yield numbers will be. </p>
<p>When the yield was better than expected the last two years, there were some freshmen students sleeping in conference rooms for the first two weeks of the fall semester. I know IUB wants to avoid that this year.</p>
<p>I talked to a counselor at the admissions office on the Monday after Thanksgiving, and she said that IU had already received more applications for Fall 2008 by then than were received for the entire period for students applying for entry in Fall 2007.</p>
<p>I don't know if it will decline drastically, but it will probably decline because freshmen have to live in campus housing (unless they live within 25 miles of school) and IU has only so many dorm rooms.</p>
<p>I just found out I got wait listed online. I thought I was going to get rejected though. My SATs was a 1710 and my GPA was around a 3.0. I didn't pretty well this year considering I got mostly 90s and above so hopefully they will consider my midyear grades.</p>
<p>Yesterday there was a post on this web site about being waitlisted at a safety, but accepted at much tougher schools. I "p.m.'d" the poster with my story about Indiana and guess what? Indiana was that safety. I think you'll see this list grow.</p>
<p>Because of the high volume of applicants to all schools, I think anyone would be very disappointed if they based what is a safety on previous year's statistics. My D had a 3.8 and ACT 29 and didn't consider IU a safety. As they say - there are no guarantees in life.</p>