UMD was my top choice, and I was accepted for the spring semester, on the waitlist for fall semester. I will definitely be attending spring semester, and fall if I get in off the waitlist, but I am trying to figure out if it is worth doing FC over working in a lab at the NIH for the first semester.
What are the advantages (I will be doing a CS / Linguistics double major, if it matters)? What are the disadvantages?
Finally, is there any meaning to being put on the fall waitlist? I know that many people did not have that part in their letter, but are a significant number of people admitted off of the watilst?