@Pri930 on idoc
If you choose to stay on priority waitlist and are accepted, does that mean you have to attend the school? I was just confused by the ârequired to make a deposit in 72 hoursâ part
Yes. And as made clear by admissions, waitlist decisions are NOT need blind. Very little, if any, scholarship money is left for waitlist students.
does anyone know if cmu actually waits the full two weeks to review financial appeals? that seems criminal to make us wait till the 13th considering we donât have much time to make a decision
@turnerk Last year we got ours back in a few days.
@wings17 last yearâs is here https://admission.enrollment.cmu.edu/pages/undergraduate-admission-statistics. This yearâs is not released, but my advisor said that it is much lower this year and they plan on letting in many waitlisted people.
@Ashley102399 Ummm, I called and was told that I can decline due to the lack of adequate FA.
@mrelonmusk. CMU makes abundantly clear that if it goes to the waitlist, very, very little financial aid will be available and preference is given to full pays.
@Overtheline Iâd like a source for that statement.
@mrelonmusk. Presentation that an CMU admissions office gives every day during April between 3 and 3:30 pm in Cannon Hall to waitlisted students.
@Overtheline Well thanks for that info and shattering my last bit of hope for CMU. I guess I should take CMU out of consideration now because I need FA in order to go.
Getting off the waitlist at any top school is akin to winning the lottery. As to CMU, the waitlist is school specific. It is impossible to predict which schools, if any, at CMU will go to the waiting list. From there, it is not need blind. Financial aid for waitlisted students is entirely dependent on how much financial aid is used up by regular admitted students. But, logically, a substantial number of regularly admitted will select CMU (a school that costs around $70,000 per year) based on very attractive scholarship offers and other financial aid, thereby depleting the pool of financial aid funds. The same situation exists at many other schools.
One point of clarification. I should have written preference will be given to full pays or those that only require limited financial aid.
My son got priority wait listed and wants CMU Computer Science. This was his first choice school by far!
I called the admissions office and they said that in the past few years they have accepted very few students off of the wait list. This year, they lowered the amount of students they offered admission to and plan to take more students off the wait list. However, as another poster mentioned, if you need financial aid, your name will be pushed down on the wait list. They will take full pay first.
My son did get some financial aid, but not as much as we thought heâd get.
My question is:
If he gets off the wait list, is it possible he would get more financial aid in the coming years ?
@BatGirlie I cannot answer your question. But as to âpriority wait list,â all wait listed students were offered the option to elect priority status. By taking priority status, your child is committing to attend CMU if offered admission and paying the required deposit within 72 hours.
@BatGirlie, Did you get Financial aid info already while on the priority wait list? Is that CMU trying to inform students what to expect in terms of aids if they are offered admission?
@WCbound Yes, CMU issued financial aid reports for both accepted and waitlisted students.
@BatGirlie he can contest his financial aid package in later semesters if he is admitted and try to get a bit more aid, but I wouldnât depend on it because youâre pretty much arguing with/begging the board to give you more grants so its iffy
We did receive tentative financial aid package today in the snail mail. Son is priority wait listed @ CMU.
I appealed for more financial aid but my letter now says revised with nothing changed. I was told the first review committee wasnât until the 13th⊠what does this mean??