<p>ooooh thanks! who do we address the actual letter to though? (“Dear ___,”)</p>
<p>So I do find it odd that the only college which wait-listed me (NYU) had the best undergraduate business program out of the other colleges I applied to (UNC, UVA, Georgetown, Carnegie Mellon) at which I was rejected. I did get into my state school Rutgers University as well as Boston University. Of course NYU is my top choice but I will be enrolling at either Rutgers or BU until further notice.</p>
<p>And I applied to Stern. I do wonder if I applied to CAS, would I have been accepted instead of waitlisted, but of course I wanted to study business at NYU so Stern would have been the better choice anyway. And I must admit that I was surprised that I was wait-listed. I was almost certain that I was going to be rejected. By the way, did you guys notice the letter was postmarked April 1? This could all be an April Fool’s Joke!</p>
<p>@littlepaperstars: Based on examples of waitlist letters, you can do “to whom it may concern” or “dear nyu admissions office”</p>
<p>@josephyang: omg. you ARE me. i will be enrolling in rutgers until i hear back from stern though</p>
<p>waitlisted
called on thursday, april 8th, still never got a letter
brooklyn, ny</p>
<p>Does anyone know just when NYU usually starts to accept/reject applicants on the wait list? I was just wondering if it was before May 1, so I could save a few hundred dollars on a school deposit that might count for nothing.</p>
<p>i think all schools start pooling out their applicants form the waitlist after may 1st.</p>
<p>@gladken: based on collegeconfidential forums from last year, looks like most nyu waitlistees who were accepted were notified by phone call and/or email the first or second week of may. i don’t know if those who weren’t accepted were contacted or not.</p>
<p>I called NYU Undergraduate admissions today. they said just write a letter. i asked if they wanted recommendations or any of that other stuff and they said only a letter would do. </p>
<p>Hope this helps. And I really want to go to NYU. It’s my first choice. I’m crafting my letter right now :P</p>
<p>can any1 read my letter for nyu to try to get off the waitlist?</p>
<p>You can have my spot. I don’t want to go to NYU</p>
<p>Wait so can an admitted student who doesn’t plan on going to NYU this fall simply “hand” their admissions spot to a specific waitlisted student?</p>
<p>If so richardd let me know!</p>
<p>haha i’m not sure if it works that way…the most you can probably do is when you decline, tell them to give your spot to the person</p>
<p>^ obviously that doesn’t work.</p>
<p>where is last year’s waitlist thread? sorry cant find it…</p>
<p>so the waitlistees that dont get accepted are just not contacted at all?</p>
<p>nvm the post above. found the thread in class of 2013 subforum</p>
<p>I called the admissions office two days ago. They said that chances for wait listed students at Stern have been slim. According to her (she claims to be an admissions counselor), ten were taken off the wait list last year for Stern, whereas the year before (2008), there were a lot more (she did not specify how much is “a lot more”). She said the year before that (2007), they did not accept any. </p>
<p>These statistics are purely for waitlisted students for Stern and are according to an admissions counselor I reached when calling the undergraduate admissions office. I forgot to get her name. </p>
<p>Even if these statistics are true, they are not surprising as Stern is arguably one of the best schools at NYU.</p>
<p>awww man :(</p>
<p>and 543 people got off the waitlist last year, are you saying only 10 were stern applicants?</p>
<p>That does sound odd.</p>
<p>But really, it’s hard to predict what’ll happen this year. The number of applicants shot up by nearly 2000 (more, in some other schools), and on top of that, we have no idea how the financial situation is for the college.</p>
<p>is there a way we can decline the waitlist? I think my mom threw out the waitlist letter. I’m really surprised that I was waitlisted though. I sent the same application to stern as to wharton…</p>