<p>There seemed to be quite a few of us other in the other thread, so I figured we deserved our own place to discuss/strategize/commiserate.</p>
<p>I was just about to make one of these.
Hopefully the WL admittance rate is higher than the dismal 3.7% someone posted earlier.
Nice screenname btw.</p>
<p>Yeah that 3.7 stat isn’t very encouraging. This is my third waitlist in two days to a school I really love, but it’s better than being flat-out rejected. And thanks!</p>
<p>I’m starting to think we’re the same person.
Over the last two days, I was waitlisted to three places as well (BU, Lewis and Clark, and now here). I’d be more than ecstatic if I were accepted to Reed, but sadly I’ve begun weighing my other options.</p>
<p>My other two are Whitman and Vassar (where I’d say I have no chance of getting off). I’m pretty sure I know where I want to go out of all my other options as all but one were safety-types of varying degrees. I still have to visit though.</p>
<p>It seems the admissions office was caught off-guard by the surge in applications and decided to waitlist an unusually high number of people because it couldn’t predict the yield. The same thing happened at UChicago this year and the two years before it, as well as at WUSTL. Because application numbers and yield are correlated, however, the UChicago waitlist has been pretty tight in recent years, usually used sparsely between May and the middle of summer to fine-tune the numbers. WUSTL, if I’m not mistaken, didn’t go to its waitlist at all two years ago, when it had a big spike in applications and waitlisted tons of people. Reed could go either way.</p>
<p>In any case, I wouldn’t hold out too much hope if the Reed waitlist really is as big as the results here suggest. But still, this is all conjecture on my part. Good luck to everyone!</p>
<p>Aaaaaaaannnnnnndddnd Ghostt delivers the coup de grace</p>
<p>How many apps did Reed get this year? Google had failed me.</p>
<p>Add me to the list. I am really, really disappointed.</p>
<p>I was told on the phone by an admissions rep that Reed had 10,000 applicants this year, vs. About 3,000 last year. So it makes sense that they would waitlist so many people.</p>
<p>^ Steve Jobs effect? Do they still offer that calligraphy class?</p>
<p>That’s discouraging.
Brb, depositing money at UCSB</p>
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<p>I’m getting off the waitlist, so there’s another spot for somebody hopefully.</p>
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<p>No, the instructor died in 1978 and no one’s replaced him. I get the feeling it’d be pretty much impossible…</p>
<p>Waitlist here…3.9 GPA, over 500 hours community service, good essays, AMAZING interview…
I really expected to get in so I’m definitely disappointed. I even had an unfair advantage in that my sister is an alumna there. Oh well, a surge from 3000 applicants to 10000 is insane, so I can understand the waitlist.
What worries me especially is that those of us on waitlist might not be eligible for aid, in which case I won’t be able to go…
Also, this is my 3rd waitlist in 3 days (UCLA, Oberlin, and now Reed).</p>
<p>Wow, I’m pretty much the same person as you, minus the .2 GPA and the alumna sister :P. I have one thing going for me though; I’m taking a gap year next year, during which time, if I don’t get in now, I’ll be able to apply again (and this time I’ll be doing it right and going Early Decision). However, I will probably be depositing at Willamette in the near future just to be safe, and they’re actually a pretty good school, so at least I have somewhere decent to go if plan B fails.</p>
<p>“What worries me especially is that those of us on waitlist might not be eligible for aid, in which case I won’t be able to go…”</p>
<p>You wouldn’t be ineligible for aid per se, as I’m pretty sure Reed wouldn’t accept you if they weren’t able to meet your need (they are pretty committed to their 100% need based FA). But unfortunately that means that prospects probably aren’t that great for students who need a lot of aid to get accepted off the waitlist… you never know, though. </p>
<p>Good luck to everyone.</p>
<p>The number of apps:</p>
<p>[Fall</a> 2012 Freshman Admission Decisions](<a href=“http://www.reed.edu/apply/news_and_articles/fall-2012-admission.html]Fall”>http://www.reed.edu/apply/news_and_articles/fall-2012-admission.html)</p>