<p>Number of qualified applicants offered a place on waiting list 1207
Number accepting a place on the waiting list 794
Number of wait-listed students admitted 0</p>
<p>That is the data from the 05-06 common data set. Is there anything I can do or is it hopeless?</p>
<p>I'm with ya.. it's hopeless duuuuude</p>
<p>accept the offer. in previous years people have gotten in from the wating list. never know.</p>
<p>Do students that are waitlisted get update forms they can submit because since the day of the application, there was one pretty significant award I received.</p>
<p>Does anyone have the stats for how many were waitlisted this year? I'm trying to decide if I should accept my spot or not...</p>
<p>so, im waitlisted, what should i do????</p>
<p>join the facebook group of course</p>
<p>It all depends on yield. As someone who was waitlisted by 5 places last year, I can tell you that waiting lists are a huge commitment, as you won't get closure unless you get the rejection letter, or in very rare cases, an acceptance letter. Schools do not know whether or not they need a waiting list until around May 15, when everyone has replied and they know how many spots they need to fill. Princeton over-enrolled last year so everyone on the waiting list got a letter that said that they did not go WL committee. Even if 1 person can be admitted, everyone who elects to stay on the waitlist will have their file read again. However, while you shouldn't be sending entire works of research, it wouldn't hurt to write a note to your admission officer stating how much you still want to go there and what you have done since you applied. It is very hard to get into a school off of the waiting list without letting them know that you will take the spot if you get the chance.</p>
<p>bump .</p>
<p>does anyone know how many students were waitlisted this year?</p>
<p>I'm waitlisted too.... sadness.</p>
<p>It says send additionaly information if "late-breaking news." In what form do we send this?</p>
<p>i called the admissions office earlier today and they said that the number on the wait list was somewhere in the hundreds and wouldn't elaborate further</p>
<p>they know about what happened the last few years and "it all depends on what happens after may 1st"</p>
<p>I know it would be terribly difficult to not accept a spot on the waitlist, but it would bring closure. If I had been waitlisted, I would have denied my spot without a second glance because I wouldn't really want to keep that dream alive. My friend was waitlisted at Harvard last year and it was really hard to see him hoping for Harvard up until mid-June when he found out that he had been rejected. I don't know, maybe this is callous of me. I'm extremely idealistic and wouldn't want anybody to "give up a dream," I just think it's harder than it's worth in this case.</p>
<p>I agree with j07. I saw someone struggle with Harvard too last year, and the results were detrimental. She couldn't function through all of AP testing (thank goodness she only had 2). Then she got rejected on the day of graduation and she actually skipped it as well as Grad Nite because of everything she went through. Right now she's unhappily off at Stanford (well, as unhappy as she could be) and fuming that she had to miss so much because of Harvard. She's also developed such a terrible grudge against it that no one can say its name in her presence. </p>
<p>The moral of the story is to just bring closure to this whole process, as sad as it is, at least, that's what I'm doing. The chances are just too small to get our hopes up. We might say to everyone and even ourselves that we know there's no chance, but just by mailing that thing in (in all its prestamped glory) and trying to go through the process of getting all those letters that I'm sure all of us will try to get, we'll have this subconscious bit of hope left that will be completely squashed (in all likelihood anyway). This is as far as we go. It's sad, but it's true.</p>
<p>i guess the waitlist thread is dead...</p>
<p>there are plenty of good schools out. we don't have to go an ivy to be successful. with that said, i'm turning in my waitlist acceptance paper anyway. haha.</p>
<p>i also think it's really silly to get so attached to a college that you haven't you even gone to.</p>
<p>anybody know how to pull yourself from the waitlist? online it said that i was, but i never got any form in the mail to be taken off; just the official decision letter. anyway, i want to free up a spot for one of y'all...=p</p>
<p>You should send them an E-mail.</p>
<p>Any updates on the waiting list?</p>
<p>mid-june. that's a bad time to tell people. </p>
<p>tropical, sorry about your friend.</p>