<p>I kinda like the name mango lassi…lassi is a traditiional indian drink</p>
<p>anyway…the point is…anybody here with NO reply ?</p>
<p>chrischrichris, for me the status page has been accurate. It showed priority wait list until today. It switched to regular waitlist today during 5-9 p.m. timeslot. You may want to find out who your school counsellor is, and send him/her a note explaining the situation, so that he can look up your status first thing in the morning. Where have you SIR’ed in the meantime?</p>
<p>That’s weird. I’m pretty sure mine just said waitlist since the day the decisions went up.
Something must be wrong with my data. So for you on the Where Am I in the Process Page under the “Decision” box, it said “priority waitlist”?</p>
<p>And I’m not quite sure who my counselor is. I’m planning on calling them around 7 in the morning, which would be 10 am for Pittsburgh.</p>
<p>Even my ‘Where am I in the Process’ page was just ‘Waitlist’ earlier…and is waitlist only now as well.</p>
<p>Is there even place for a “priority waitlist” in the box O.o</p>
<p>I didn’t get off the waitlist for CIT EE…blaah</p>
<p>did anyone get this email?</p>
<p>"Dear Student,</p>
<p>Thank you for expressing an interest in remaining on our priority waiting
list for admission to Carnegie Mellon. A record number of candidates elected
our priority waiting list option this year. Unfortunately, we are unable to
remove your name from the priority waiting list for the Carnegie Institute
of Technology at the present time. We will however continue to keep your
name on our regular waiting list. For planning purposes, you should know
that you will be among the first group to receive admission should places
become available later in May. We will contact you by June 1 with a final
decision regarding your admission to Carnegie Mellon. In the meantime
however you should have already placed an enrollment deposit at another
college or university. Thank you very much for considering Carnegie Mellon.
We certainly appreciate your interest and wish you all the best in your
college plans."</p>
<p>I’m tired of waiting. What does this actually mean? Am I transferred to regular waitlist or what? What do you think about my chances?</p>
<p>em190,</p>
<p>What they are really saying is that the mucked this all up and the priority waiting list became huge. So much so they should have just had one list and not put people through this. So, unfortunately you were not selected and as a bunch of people off that list will not be put on the regular list, you need to realize the odds that they need to add any more applicants to the 2013 class are pretty slim. </p>
<p>Sorry and best of luck.</p>
<p>^^^^</p>
<p>Sorry, that should have read now be put on the regular list.</p>
<p>i called the offices today and asked why i didn’t receive a call or email, and the lady transferred me to the voicemail of one of the assistant directors of admissions</p>
<p>Hope this bit of satire helps some of you take a bit of pain off of potentially bad news. </p>
<p>These are pertinent sections of a communication received by a CC poster alerting him or her to a Priority Waiting List option available. It has been quoted here word-for-word. The full letter is available here:</p>
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<p>The following is satire reflecting on both the many confused posts by applicants on the Carnegie Mellon sub-board here at CC and my take on this whole sad affair. Before the posts come, let me communicate that I do not have any malice toward Carnegie Mellon, I dont know anybody there nor know anybody that has ever unsuccessfully applied there. I have no axe to grind other than an opinion on the subject matter. One additional note, I truly sympathize for all students that were put through this whether they were accepted or not. </p>
<p>Dear College Trustees:</p>
<p>Okay, Im writing this letter to you at the insistence of the President of Carnegie Mellonhead to explain and apologize for a series of Office of Admission mistakes. </p>
<p>Our first mistake was the date logic. Obviously we cant tell applicants that we will notify them on May 6 and give them time to reply to other schools by May 1. My bad. It caused so many applicants to call Admissions that our receptionist transferred to another department and the grad students fielding calls and e-mails started calling me clown fish behind my back. Dont judge me Deepak!</p>
<p>Now the whole Priority Waiting List thing is admittedly FUBAR. We wanted a way to get to a smaller number of the best remaining candidates and at the same time find out whether these best of the remaining candidates really want to be at Carnegie Mellonhead.</p>
<p>The first thing we did was not allow any applicant on the Regular waitlist who applied to multiple Mellonhead programs to get on the Priority waitlist. We WILL accept a wishy-washy kid who is really smart and applied to multiple programs to be admitted early or regular decision at Carnegie Mellonhead. We dont want wishy-washy kids from our wait list. Our logic is simple. Everyone in the ‘real world’ knows it is far better to have a really smart person that is wishy-washy in a meeting with them. </p>
<p>Next we decided to get applicants to put their money where their mouths are by requiring a 600 dollar enrollment deposit. Why didnt we just do that for the initial wait list thus making it smaller from the get-go? Admittedly, it’s now a blur but it seemed to make sense at the time. Then we really blew it. As those eligible for the Priority waiting list are WAY smarter than we are they realized that they could get on the Priority waiting list and STILL not commit an additional dime to the school, simply by waiting to send out the check on May 6 (ya know, WHEN we promised we would tell candidates whether they got in or not. Again, my bad. So, the whole intent thing just got botched up royally and became worse than pointless as most everyone simply moved to the Priority list. </p>
<p>An additional muck-up is that we didnt use this new communications to re-confirm all applicant e-mail addresses. So, we been having trouble e-mail candidates like <a href="mailto:thedreadpiratemackdaddy007@420.com">thedreadpiratemackdaddy007@420.com</a> with any success. So, we’re now contacting applicants old school. Unfortunately we didn’t start making the bulk of our calls to May 5. What we didnt factor in is that many people dont pick up their phones for a phone number they dont recognize or just got some sketchy sibling on the phone. And as we have to work down the list giving priority to those higher on the list - along with making odd hour calls to international students - we will not get to all candidates by May 6. Sorry. </p>
<p>As the Priority list is so huge, we have been e-mailing candidates some applicants on the priority list that have virtually no chance of being admitted now that their next chance will be on June 1. [Writers note: this has been posted by a CC poster who said he received this] The letter contains:</p>
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<p>Again, we blew it. When we said we are unable to remove your name from the priority waiting list that was just to be marketing speak for you were not accepted from the list. After all, straight talk is obviously what we are all about here at Carnegie Mellonhead. Unfortunately, as we ARE removing everyone remaining from the priority list and putting them ON the regular list this has made us appear even more stupid, if thats possible. So as I write this, were now getting calls from disappointed applicants calling us complete tools and telling us where we can shove our regular decision list. At present, I’m the only person still remaining in the office. Everyone else seems to have caught the flu. </p>
<p>Obviously Im toast here so Ill just be looking for another job. Sure go ahead and blame me. Its not like I dont deserve it. But while youre dishing out the blame just remember that if you arent smart enough to hire smart people to admit smart students whos really to blame here? </p>
<p>Sincerely, </p>
<p>The Outgoing Admissions Director
Carnegie Mellonhead University</p>
<p>Is that really an admissions director? Or someone else? WOW! Thank you for being 100% straightforward. Now I feel somehow glad for not being admitted. Carnegie has lot to learn…</p>
<p>NEWS:
Per admissions office, yesterday, there were ZERO people taken off of priority list from SCS or CIT. (I am pretty sure he meant CIT in general, but it is possible he meant CIT/ECE since I was interested only SCS and CIT/ECE).</p>
<p>Accepted to MCS!</p>
<p>congrats dteeb & others who got in~
did anyone else not get ANY notification at all? perhaps from tsb?</p>
<p>I was also on the waitlist for CIT.</p>
<p>It is obvious that Carnegie Mellon Admissions Office did a very bad job this year. They messed everything up. There are numerous other great instuitions out there which recieve as much as or even more applications than Carnegie Mellon, and go through the process without giving their applicants this much pain. </p>
<p>Perhaps the most ridiculous thing that has happened was the letter sent to us (CIT waitlistees) just few days before the decision release date, indicating that there WERE ACTUALLY FEW PLACES for the CIT. And now they’re saying that they weren’t able to accept anyone for CIT off the waitlist. If that’s really the case, then why the hell did you send a letter like that. They might have just say that there weren’t any spaces in that letter. Sending the decisions in waves and all the other stuff in the end of March just added to this catastrophe. </p>
<p>I loved Carnegie Mellon, it was my first choice for a long time, but now I’m getting sick and losing all my respect and sympathy for Carnegie Mellon. I’m not angry at them just because I didn’t get in. I understand how they recieve tons of qualified applications. I’m totally okay with that. But like I said, Carnegie Mellon is not the only school that has to go through this process - but it seems like they are the only one which got lost in this turmoil. They totally messed up. The office of admissions should be renovated next year. I’m serious.</p>
<p>Wow, makes me glad I didn’t bother with the waitlist on Carnegie Mellon. Not that I would’ve gotten in anyway because I was doing SCS and apparently there were no priority spots for SCS. I don’t know if I want to deal with the regular waitlist either.</p>
<p>As for the question about this passage:
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<p>I believe this was just a badly worded statement. It should NOT be taken to mean “We will notify you on May 6th, and you can turn back time and reply to other colleges on May 1st”, as someone earlier in this thread (ctyankee?) did. It just meant that they needed to wait for their regular acceptees to either accept or decline their admittance to Carnegie Mellon, so they can’t notify the priority list before the normal deadline May 1, but will notify shortly after (the 6th). So it was not an error in date logic, just an unclear statement.</p>
<p>Has this process actually been more painful than waitlists at other schools? Definitely was debating whether I’d choose CMU over Cornell if admitted off the waitlist, but too late for that one now…</p>