Brown- Waitlist
Pomona- Waitlist/Reject
Middlebury-Accept
Harvard- Waitlist/Reject
Carlton-Accept
Amherst- (Congrats!)
Bowdoin-Accept
Best of luck! 
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To update my thread: I was accepted at Middlebury and waitlisted at Pomona and Bowdoin. I’ll finalize my decisions by March 30
Anyone have tips for Pomona’s waitlist?
I would really appreciate if anyone would could predict my admission decisions from Yale, Brown, and Cornell
GPA AND BACKGROUND
3.92 GPA
White female, New York
~80k income per year
COLLEGE DECISIONS SO FAR
Accepted at Bard, Syracuse, Williams, Sarah Lawrence, Boston Univ
CLASS RANK
3/130
SAT
1490 (new) 760 math, 730 english
SAT II’s
730 Chemistry, 780 US History, 800 Lit
AP CLASSES
AP US History (5) AP Calc (3) only have 5 AP’s at my school
SENIOR YEAR CLASSES
AP Literature, AP Calc BC, AP Bio, College French, Independent Study English, Band, Advanced Econ
EXTRACURRICULARS
Debate President (11-12)
Band (9-12)
Jazz (9-12)
Student Newspaper Editor (10-12)
Started a new club to welcome new students (11-12)
NHS (11-12)
Bowling Team Captain (9-12)
Write for local paper (10-12)
Math club co-founder
AWARDS
Highest average in a bunch of stuff
Chosen and attended Girls State
STAC All east for Bowling
Many LD debate wins
chosen and attended 2 Leadership conferences
@ricka8 Congrats on Amherst. I wouldn’t worry about waitlists. A bird in the hand…
@preppedparent Do you say that because of how random/difficult acceptances after waitlists are at Pomona? It is my top choice so I want to do everything to boost my chances but I do certainly understand the unlikely situation…
WL is tough. Write an enthusiastic letter, and state if admitted you will attend only if it’s true. Good Luck!
All these schools have large waitlists and take relatively few from them in most years. So the statistical odds of moving off the waitlist is smaller than the original odds of getting in. It can and does happen, but the odds are long. the higher a schools yield, the worse the odds get and Pomona has one of the highest yields of all the LAC’s. Also, depending on the year you might have to be in limbo until as late as July to find out if you got off the waitlist or is is closed. In the meantime you will have to accept somewhere else and pay a non-refundable fee, etc…
In terms of strategy, people have tried all sorts of things ranging from a passionate letter about their ongoing interest to traveling to the school to show up and say it in person or finding an alumni to write a letter to asking their high school college counselor to call and make a case for you. There’s no reliable info on whether any of this helps and with the very competitive schools my guess is most of it doesn’t – beyond a simple letter of ongoing interest.
Hey, congratulations on Amherst!
Brown - Waitlist
Pomona - Waitlist/Reject
Middlebury- Accept
Harvard - Waitlist/Reject
Carlton - Accept
Bowdoin- Accept
Good luck!
Chance me back?
http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1970884-predict-my-results-will-chance-back.html#latest
Alright I’m closing the thread! In the end:
Accepted: Brown (!!), Amherst, Carleton, Middlebury, Bryn Mawr, Brandeis
Waitlisted: Pomona, Bowdoin, Tufts, Vassar
Rejected: Harvard
So grateful for all of my incredible options!
@ricka8 Brown is great! Congrats!
YES BROWN SO HAPPY FOR YOU!! I was really hoping for this. You made my day 
Thank you so much guys!! I’m definitely leaning towards Brown now but its still between Amherst and Brown 