@irishfan21 Best of luck! If you come off the Fall 2018 waiting list you may hear back as early as Friday, May 4th or during the week of May 7th, I believe.
@irishfan21 I got in off the waitlist last year on May 5th. I don’t think they compare you to previous students who did not attend. I contacted my regional counselor twice.
Any early insights on whether Notre Dame will go to their waitlist this year? We should presumably be close to finding out, based on effective post May 1 yield numbers.
Best of luck! Keeping my fingers crossed for you all!
I assume since nothing has been posted that none of the waitlisters have heard anything 
Maybe tomorrow (fingers crossed)
@irishfan21 I don’t think it would ever hurt to send in an additional letter of recommendation, especially if it’s one from an important alum. I contacted my regional admissions counselor seven times (I called, sent a post card, emailed, etc.) I would especially encourage you to email your admissions counselor whenever you have a positive update that can be added to your file. I am not sure how much the admissions office takes into account the amount of students from each high school have accepted admission. I received a call on my cell phone from my regional admissions counselor who told me that I was accepted to ND off of the waitlist on May 4th around 5pm last year.
Good luck to everyone on the waitlist! I am stopping by the grotto tonight to light a candle for you all. I know how stressful this whole process can be, but I hope you can all remember that what’s meant to be will be.
my daughter got the call. good luck to everyone. all the waitlist thread helped a lot. so grateful.
Yay! Congratulations to your D @irishmom2x! <:-P Hoping for good news soon from everyone else!
thank u @hafamama. my family is praying that more spots open for those still waiting. i just started using this forum because it helped us a lot. i want to give back by sharing our experience. perhaps it will be useful for next year’s waitlisted. never give up. GO IRISH!
I haven’t heard back :(( hopefully they continue notifying till Monday?.. @irishmom2x can I ask you what state is your daughter going to school at? Thank you!!
Does anyone know of any other person who got off of the waitlist? Really hoping to hear some more phone calls Monday! GL to everyone on the waitlist with me!
Hello @mattham we are from California. the regional admissions director is so nice. love her. i hope more spots open and will pray a lot here on this thread gets accepted.
700+ on the waitlist, this is the only active site for ND waitlist 2022, and only 1 poster claims to have been called. I sense deception, and that is really cruel on their part.
@Collegiate111 I’m sorry the waiting is hard, but I don’t think it’s fair to call it deceptive. ND has the last 21 years of its Common Data set on its website http://ospir.nd.edu/institutional-research/common-data-set-cds/common-data-set/ and waitlist statistics are found Section C2.
Last year, 901 accepted a place on the waitlist and 96 were admitted off the waitlist. The year before, 743 got on the waitlist and 85 were admitted. For 2015-2016, 869 got on the waitlist, and none were admitted off the list. I agree that being on a waitlist is nervewracking, but it’s part of the process at ND and many other colleges. Other places, like USC, don’t have a waitlist, but offer Spring admission or the Trojan Transfer Plan. Also, keep in mind that not everyone is on CC or even reddit, so there may be other students who have been accepted off the waitlist that we just don’t know about.
I do offer you best wishes, and good luck.
thank you @hafamama. from the info my daughter got 20 spots were opened initially. we are hoping they open more as we know how it feels to get waitlisted.
@Collegiate111 Having one of twenty so far accepted ND waitlist applicants posting on this site is actually a pretty good ratio. As @hafamama has pointed out, realistic chances to get off the waiting list have always been low, not only at ND yet at most other highly selective colleges and universities as well. Likely, there will be a few offers to come - it all depends on the yield at this stage and ND starts from a comparatively high basis, which might well be going up further this year. Best of luck!
Most schools in ND’s range plan to use their wait list to some extent every year. Filling 5-10% of your seats every year via the WL is a good way to decrease your admit rate and increase your yield stats.
The schools intentionally under-admit by a little bit, then work the wait list hard to identify the kids who continue to have real interest and who are highly likely to enroll if admitted. And then they also have some cushion if the enrollments from EA/RD spike higher than forecast.
The difficult thing to really see/know is how many truly interested applicants remain on the list. So the schools start with very very large waitlists because they have to bake in a huge drop off in interest as time passes. Also, the schools often use the waitlist to fill particular holes in the enrolled class. This year, maybe ND is short on female engineers from Utah…
So it is basically impossible to know what the actual chances of getting off the WL really are. While you can see how many kids get taken off the WL, you really can’t know how many kids are “really” on the WL as compared to the huge number that are initially offered/accept the WL spot. It isn’t cruel or deceptive, it is just how it works. To set expectations, you should probably assume that your chances of getting off the waitlist are not much different/better than getting admitted overall – ballpark 15% or so.
Good luck to those still waiting!
SAT 1580
national merit scholar
national AP scholar
USACO gold place
some state awards for chess
4 year cross country, tennis
some other ECs
did not receive the call yesterday, feel really depressed.
will try to move on and do better when apply to grad school
No reason to feel depressed - we understand 20 calls went out yesterday, expect additional calls some time next week. Best of luck!
It appears that I created controversy in doubting the veracity of the “CA daughter” acceptance. I did so to console those, like myself, that were disappointed to not have received such a call. Allow me to explain my reasoning.
Lets assume there are 700 WL’ers. Many have come to peace with going to State, but accepted the WL just to see if they could actually get in. Let us assume there are 400 that are eager to gain ND acceptance – a dozen of them post here, and the rest likely lurk (as I was doing). All eager students will research the WL, and there is nothing on Reddit, nor any active discussion anywhere that I have found, other than CC. There are hundreds of ND hopefuls watching this forum chain.
If one looks at prior years discussions on the WL, one sees waves of calls starting as early as 5/4. Posters, with understandable excitement, dive in to proclaim their acceptance, and wish luck to others. The date 5/4 checks out, but a Friday is awkward as the first wave looks to be over several days in the past, and calls do not go out on the weekend. Multiple posters in the past have chimed in for the initial wave – only one seems odd.
The calls go to cell phones starting at 5pm – why? Likely HS cell phone policies: in many schools phones must ostensibly be off, and in a locker, until school ends to avoid class disruptions (students do not follow it, but ND must honor it). Irishmom2x, in CA, posted at 6:37pm EST time stamp = 3:37pm PST. Hmmm
“ i want to give back by sharing our experience. perhaps it will be useful for next year’s waitlisted. never give up.” But no actual experience was shared. The emphasis is on next year’s WL? The WL process for the class of 2022 just started!
The number of slots would never be told to a student. 20 slots open is in the range of 0-50-100, but an admissions rep would never reveal that (see prior boards). If it were told, then why withhold such a key nugget of data from an initial post? The number of WL accepted students is always found out well after the fact.
On a stylistic note, I would expect better writing from a mother of a daughter intelligent enough to get into ND. Even phones force capitalization…
I sensed gas lighting, and wished to console fellow WL’ers. Multiple qualified students have posted their disappointment at not getting a call. I want them to breathe, and step back, and realize that perhaps you did not receive such a call because no one, in actuality, has yet.