<p>So I am waitlisted.</p>
<p>I checked in the USNEWS and found that Wesleyan accepted 700 out of the 1500 waitlisted applicants last year, but only 21 students were finally enrolled. I wonder why's that.<br>
because of the very late arrival of final decision?</p>
<p>I am an international applicant so I know little about the waitlist acceptance thing.....
Any help will be greatly appreciated:) Thanks</p>
<p>That doesn’t sound right. That would mean, over a third of wesleyan’s acceptances were from the wait list and would also work out to a <16% pre-waitlist acceptance rate. Sometimes USNews just screws up.</p>
<p>Without researching this, maybe 700 out of 1500 offered to be placed on the WL agreed to being placed on the list … the # eventually accepted would be much lower.</p>
<p>Yeah, 700 acceptances from the waitlist is definitely not right–I think beachmom25 is correct.</p>
<p>prolly 700 accept and 21 admitted</p>
<p>This is how the USNEWS writes about Wesleyan’s waitlist:</p>
<p>Number of applicants placed on a waiting list: 1,500
Number of students on the wait list accepted: 700
Number of students enrolled from a waiting list: 21 </p>
<p>Yeah,I agree with beachmom25. It most likely means"700 out of 1500 offered to be placed on the WL agreed to being placed on the list … the # eventually accepted would be much lower."</p>
<p>Thanks guys.</p>
<p>God this sucks. If it really is 700 took their spot on the waitlist and 21 were eventually allowed in thats like 3% acceptance. I LOVE Wes but lately I’ve been feeling like I should just not even bother cause the odds are so terrible and go somewhere else.</p>
<p>so I am currently a freshman at Wesleyan and I was one of the lucky 3% who got off the wait-list. I know that right now it may seem pointless with these figures to try and get off the wait-list, but if wes is really where you want to go then go for it! never in my wildest dreams did I think I would get off the wait-list. I am white, female, from a city - not exactly the kind of student profile that wesleyan is lacking.
My best advice (or rather what i did) was send a short letter, no longer than a page, expressing why you are interested in going to wes - i mentioned a specific program that wes had that no other school had and essentially that I NEEDED to go to wes. I also e-mailed the admissions officer a few days before I visited wesleyan to ask for an appointment to ask some “questions” that I had. I really had no questions, but just sitting down with an officer and showing your interest I think really helps. I will note, that when I got to the office, they said that the officer that I was supposed to meet with was busy, I stood my ground though, and I said that I had an appointment and insisted that I see someone and lo and behold! the officer that i had originally sent an e-mail to was available. go figure. I will also mention that I am from the west coast, so this visit was kind of out of my way and I don’t know how much that played into the impact of my visit. and also if you can get your college counselor to call the school and vouch for you, that can help to.
overall be polite, don’t waste their time and don’t beg, and just continue to show interest if you really want to get into Wes - 3% is still a shot.
I have also heard that selective colleges this year are relying on their wait-lists due to the economy so who knows.
hope this helps and good luck!</p>
<p>Check out this page on Wesleyan stats, including waitlisting:</p>
<p>http://**************.com/wesleyan-university/statistics/</p>
<p>I can’t tell what year or years these stats are from, but they suggest that approx 1/3rd of those offered opt to stay on the waitlist and that approx 22% of those who remain on the waitlist are ultimately offered a spot. </p>
<p>Not great odds, but better than some on this forum have suggested.</p>
<p>It looks like you can’t post a link (at least not to the College ******* site), so go to the Wesleyan page on the College ******* site and then click on “more stats” on the right side in the “Wesleyan at a Glance” section.</p>
<p>Wow, this website actually blanks out “*******”. But will it blank out “P-r-o-w-l-e-r”? (And if that didn’t appear, then try “relworP” backwards!). Cheers</p>
<p>Forget collegeprow1er and USN&WR and, instead, go right to the source for the information:</p>
<p>[Office</a> of Institutional Research - Wesleyan University](<a href=“http://www.wesleyan.edu/ir/cds/cds.htt]Office”>http://www.wesleyan.edu/ir/cds/cds.htt)</p>
<p>Pick a year and grab all the data you want. Item C.2 is wait list information.</p>
<p>For last year’s class, 1,859 were offered a place on the wait list, 645 accepted that offer and 22 of them were ultimately admitted as students last fall.</p>
<p>That’s different from the way USN&WR allegedly phrased it.</p>
<p>The first number (1,859 - or 1,500) is the number of applicants who were sent letters in late March advising them that they were not admitted but have been placed on the wait list, if they send in a card indicating their intent to be placed on that list.</p>
<p>The second number (645 – or 700) is the number of people who accepted that offer (to be on the wait list) and returned the card, agreeing to keep their names under consideration in the event a place opens up after the May 1 deadline that the other admitted applicants have to confirm their acceptances. It is NOT the number of students who were accepted – offered a place in the class of 2014 – after being placed on the wait list.</p>
<p>The third number (22 - or 21) is the number of people who were once on the wait list and ultimately matriculated as students. What you do not get to see, from USN&WR or the Common Data Set or anything else (unless Wesleyan shares it in, say, a newspaper article) is the number of students who were on the wait list who were extended offers of admission and, for whatever reason, declined the offer.</p>
<p>I hope that clarifies what USN&WR was reporting an what is stated on the Common Data Set information at the above link.</p>
<p>Good luck to you, wherever your path may lead.</p>