<p>I was just wondering if anyone has heard anything regarding the percentage of the applicants waitlisted this year or in previous years, since it seems like a ton of people are waitlisted? I, myself, am also waitlisted and was wondering about this to see if I should completely move on or if I still have a decent shot of getting in through the waitlist. Thanks for any info!</p>
<p>I don’t think this warranted its own thread, considering there is one with nearly the exact title on the second page of this forum, and there are already about 10 waitlist threads anyway where you can glean this information. </p>
<p>Wash U clearly has a large waitlist, but the size doesn’t seem to be any different than previous years if you just do some research on these forums. No one knows the exact size but it doesn’t seem that anyone has bothered to contact admissions anyway. </p>
<p>Last year, they didn’t take any one off the waitlist (Wash U actually had more people say yes to their acceptance than they expected), and a few years ago the same thing happened. No one can know what will happen this year. There doesn’t seem to be any harm to staying on the waitlist, because you never know what happens, but I wouldn’t exactly count on something positive happening.</p>
<p>Oh, my bad. I didn’t see the other thread.</p>
<p>If anything though, I would say the year after they take noone they would take a few, because they probably would try to account for their overfilling by giving less acceptances. So they will put more people on the waitlist to prevent overfilling again, and so they will probably end up taking some people off.</p>
<p>They really don’t have room to overfill, I’m sure it ends up causing them headaches when it comes to housing too many freshmen.</p>
<p>My opinion is that, if you’re waitlisted, move on, but there’s no harm in staying if you still have some interest.</p>