I would assume mid to late May? Because they have to evaluate the number of acceptees that filled their spot with the deposit by May 1st, then they have to reevaluate the whole waitlist pool. 
Waitlisted- legacy and wrote a really cool essay about mustard, oh well
I was waitlisted. I wouldn’t base the size of the waitlist off of the amount of people responding on here. There are too many variables. Usually waitlists are around 1000-1500 people. So, out of the tens of thousands of applications, being waitlisted maybe isn’t that bad. Or maybe it’s just me trying to deal with the 2 months of stress to come 
Most waitlisted applicants get their decisions in mid-May.
@dimsum321 ahahaha I’m a legacy too. I thought that in combination with my good scores and decent (in my eyes) essays would have given me a good chance of getting in but oh well xD just gotta keep hoping
How does financial aid work for waitlist? I know you have a limited time to accept your spot if you’re taken off the waitlist, but do they tell you how much aid you would be given along with your invitation to matriculate?
@USMessi that is one of my worries. Like what if I’m accepted off the waitlist but FA is limited? Ugh
Hey! Accepting my spot on the wait list :-t feeling pretty sad
@jk1998 yeah, but now I feel like I definitely have no chance at the Ivies if a legacy school rejected me lol
@soph1112 in a post a while ago uchicago said they still 100% meet the financial needs of waitlisted students
I have no idea if the fa info is given in the waitlist acceptance letter tho
@dimsum321 I know right? I’ve lost so much hope!!! Tears tears lol
Can someone explain how it works to be waitlisted? I thought you had to make a decisions by May 1st for most schools? I was accepted into a good honors program at my public state univeristy and would be fine with going there. But I don’t want to give up on UChicago yet.
@Kasami by May 1st you have to accept a place at a different college and put in a deposit or risk not going to college this fall. Colleges can’t offer acceptances to waitlisted people until after May 1st becuase they’ll only know how many people rejected heir spots then.
If you get in off the waitlist you’ll most likely end up losing your deposit money at the other college. So you basically have to commit to another college. If you happen to get in off the waitlist and still want to attend, you have to withdraw your acceptance of the other college.
Waitlisted… I wasn’t expecting to get in though. I’m an international student and applied for financial aid
Where else did you guys apply to?
I applied to Princeton, Penn, Cornell, and Barnard.
I’m trying to weigh how a waitlist from UChicago stacks my chances for Ivies 
Also, what do you think you guys want to major in? 
I’m probably going to be an astronomy/astrophysics major.
does waitlist = rejection ?
and if not, how can i gtf0 waitlist?
English major here! Applied Yale SCEA, Emory, Cornell, Brown, Swarthmore, Northwestern, and UC Berkeley. Any overlaps?
@soph1112 Same here. and I thought my UChicago essays were decent. Some of my Ivy essays were rather bland to say the least. Guess things aren’t looking good for me.
I have a bit of a subjective question:
Is getting waitlisted (especially at a college with an 8% acceptance rate) good? Is it something to be chill with or is it something I might not want to tell people? Does that make sense?