They are not playing with you. College adcoms aren’t cruel but they just don’t care about individuals, they get paid to meet bottom line, heart broken students are collateral damage in their line of work. College world is about self-interest.
One thing that bothers about this process most is possibility of giving preference to students with powerful contacts instead of going by honest merit. That would be cruel indeed.
@ElCapitan33 so the fact that they told you that they don’t know if they’re pulling from the wailist yet means no one has been pulled from the waitlist thus far. Right??
I can’t believe no one has been accepted off the wait list …
*not
@Esmith1799 who knows, I’ve heard varying responses when I’ve called so no clue. What do you guys think?
At this point, I don’t know what to think. They have allegedly told people that the classes aren’t full and that admissions are just slow this year but then they tell others that they’re still deciding if they will need the waitlist. I guess I will stay hopeful until mid-June when they are supposed to tell us for sure. Well, who even knows if that is still true at this point…
@Esmith1799 I was thinking, what if, as the FAQ says, Penn is actually waiting to roll them out in June? I know in past years they said the same thing, and started in May, but I mean you never know, they went to the EL early this year, and may actually just be waiting for June to give out decisions, as they said. Things change, you never know
Also, the class has to be full and they’re lying. It’s June 3!!! How could the class not be full yet you still haven’t used the waitlist?!?!
It looks like along with Asian quota and early decisions, DOJ will be receiving petitions to investigate waitlist practices as well.
Update: from what I’ve heard, a majority of people received rejection letters from the waitlist a few weeks back when Penn went to the EWL. It seems like there’s a relatively small amount on the EWL (compared to the original), which is somewhat good news!
@ElCapitan33 awesome! Where did you hear that?
@Esmith1799 On reddit, a bunch of people have said that themselves and all their other classmates who were waitlisted were rejected mid-May. Therefore, I imagine there’s a relatively small amount. I guess now it just comes down to when they use it!
@ElCapitan33 ahh that makes me a little more hopeful! I’m going on a trip until June 15. Hoping that they tell us when I get back!!
Pomona closed wait list. We should also receive a similar letter from Penn shortly.
“Thank you for your patience with us these last few weeks. I am writing with an update, but regrettably, also with news that we will not be able to include you in our entering class. We had been hopeful to invite more students like you to join us at Pomona, but it is clear that very few, if any, additional spaces will develop during the summer. In order to provide closure to this process, we are releasing the bulk of the remaining students from our wait list now.”
“we are releasing the bulk of the remaining students from our wait list now.”
Still not closed. Someone may get good news during summer.
I see. so there is still “very few” on the waiting list.
@Laketahoe79 I’m praying they just get back to us this week so it can be over. By now, we all know the size of the class if full, and to make us wait is absurd.
Very doubtful.
@scholar999 You don’t think they’ll release us this week?
I hope they tell everyone in the next day or two. I really do. It could go to next week. Any wait beyond the next 10 days would be completely and utterly unnecessary and selfish. What could summer melt be? 5 students? Why don’t they simply overbook by 5 just in case of summer melt? They can make up any difference next year. They should look at a number of say 2500 students as goal, as an average over 5 years. It should be a small range around the mean of 2500. Some years may be higher, some lower, but they can adjust as needed (without of course allowing great variation in numbers from year to year).