<p>I'm not sure how I should feel about being put on waitlist to UNCW, is this the kind of thing that pretty much means your chances of ultimately being accepted are almost none? Does anyone have any insight about the wait-list thing and colleges?</p>
<p>Go to the UNCW website and do a search on “common data set”. It is a report that is done each year, and includes information on how many applicants are put on the waiting list and how many were accepted off it. </p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>I attended a seminar last year that indicated if you are wait-listed and the school is your first choice then send you should send a HANDWRITTEN letter to the DIRECTOR of admissions at the school telling them how much you want to go there and that if you are admitted off the wait-list you will immediately deposit and attend and explain the school is your first choice. When my friend’s daughter was wait-listed at her first choice school I told my friend and her daughter wrote and sent the letter and also stayed in contact with her admissions counselor and she she was ACCEPTED off the wait-list.</p>
<p>My attitude is it can’t hurt and it might help so why not. Good luck!</p>
<p>I looked it up on their website, but they hadn’t provided the info/stats for wait-listed admitted students :/</p>
<p>Thanks cara140, do you think there is a limit in time as to when that letter should be sent? UNCW is in my top choices, but I’d like to know other decisions, before I try and commit to them…any advice?</p>
<p>For Fall 2010 admissions, they offered 283 people a spot on the waitlist and 86 people accepted. Two people were admitted of the 86. </p>
<p>That is the most recent information available on the UNCW website. I don’t know if that year is typical or not.</p>
<p>Wow, that doesn’t make it sound good at all :/</p>
<p>I suggest sending the letter as soon as possible if it’s your first choice and staying intouch with admissions. No school will start to go to its wait list until after May 1 so you have time but you want to keep your name in front of admissions so when they start to reach to the wait,it’d for names yours is at the top. This strategy worked for a frirend of my last year at the University of Richmond and they did not tie many off the wait list.</p>
<p>Good Lucj!</p>