I just thought I would make a thread for those that were waitlisted.
Meh… Taking it as a rejection
I don’t believe they release much of anything besides that 3% of applicants get waitlisted.
Is it me, or does it seem like they waitlisted a bunch more this year than last year?
@debate4ever I see what you mean… it seems as if they haven’t used the waitlist in a few years.
Look at this 
Please post waitlist statistics.
@beedledub that’s not too reassuring, ahah. Thanks for the informative post. 
@ReferToMeByName Oh wow, now that I look into it… it seems as though the waitlist (in terms of size) is composed of the hypothetical class of 2021 xD
Didn’t more people get wait listed than accepted?
From looking at the Common Data set from the last three years:
2015- 0/927 (1,256 offered the waitlist)
2014- 7/695 (958 offered the waitlist)
2013- 0/576 (814 offered the waitlist)
From the released 3.6% waitlist rate, an estimate of ~1,500 received the waitlist this year.
It’s strange how the waitlist has seeming exploded this year when compared to three years ago, yet the percentage of students who make it off the list remains at a 0%.
For these aforementioned reasons, I believe there’s no hope.
I have to wonder why the waitlist has gotten huge, considering that recent years show they never had the need to use it.
So question: do we have to enroll if we are offered admission on the wait list? Also what kind of updates are you guys gonna send in?
In the waitlist response form, is the box that asks to provide any new academic and extracurricular accomplishments really relevant or not? I feel like I don’t have anything major i can talk about. Thoughts?
@Italo11 I was going to ask the same thing
@Italo11 @himym12345 it is optional guys, you can leave it empty
@equivocal17 Hahaha exactly… if only they accepted 1,000 more students, hey?
@Marz23C Don’t have to enrol if offered admission. I really f-ed up my list of activities on the common app, so I’m going to try and rectify that situation…
Is it even worth accepting a spot on the waitlist? It is basically a prolonged rejection. And also, correct me if im wrong, but isnt Stanford building new housing facilities this year to house more students… So is that a glimmer of hope for us waitlisters?
@verizonwireless This is the waitlist information from the last few years.
2015 - 0/927 (1,256 offered the waitlist)
2014 - 7/695 (958 offered the waitlist)
2013 - 0/576 (814 offered the waitlist)
As you can see, our chance is close to zero.
I did research about the “new housing facilities” and in fact they would expand the actual undergraduate residences. However, the news I read about it are from the 2013. The only active housing constructions are the new graduate facilities for first-year MBA students. If you do some research, you will find out that they did a really long permit paperwork for building the graduate residences (which lasted more than a year) and there are plenty of news about the day-by-day process. Since there are less than two months for the waitlist status and there has not been any concrete actions for the undergraduate houses, unfortunately, I would say that this year it is going to be the same. :((
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/october/grad-housing-proposal-102215.html
It seems as though this is something that remains to be unknown until May 1. I wish us all the best, and I encourage every single one of us to take a minute to be proud of ourselves. Congrats to those who were accepted to many other schools that they thought they had no chance at! You’ve made it thus far and I have no doubt that you will excel in whichever school you choose! To those of us that have our hearts set out for Stanford, then may the odds be in our favor! :x