<p>Thanks everyone - he was notified that he's on the waitlist.
This has been a hard day.</p>
<p>my daughter was waitlisted too. she's devastated. her brother is a student there and they had so hoped she'd get in. sigh....</p>
<p>Another unhappy waitlister here.</p>
<p>I was waitlisted as well. Seems like a pretty common theme here :(</p>
<p>Daughter accepted at Oberlin. She might not go, though, so there is hope for at least one who was waitlisted. Right?</p>
<p>They waitlist like 800 people, it's ridiculous.</p>
<p>But I'm trying to remain optimistic.</p>
<p>I'm sorry to everyone waitlisted.</p>
<p>Son was waitlisted (and at Carleton and Kenyon), but admitted to Reed and Uchicago. We think the main reason was that his essays were not very specific, as he applied to the waitlisting schools as backups in case he didn't get admitted to Reed and Chicago! Not that he didn't like the schools -- he just didn't like them as <em>much</em>, and I think it showed. </p>
<p>So I guess he's "happily waitlisted". He didn't get rejected, and he gets to turn down the waitlists.</p>
<p>Accepted</p>
<p>However, will not attend.</p>
<p>I got waitlisted too. This is riduculous to look at this thread and find everyone is getting waitlisted.</p>
<p>I'm from Vietnam so I'm not sure if there is any chance (one Vietnamese got accepted but she will not attend, no other waitlisted)</p>
<p>Accepted. But not attending Oberlin either. Another place for the waitlists :) Quite apologetic for taking someone else's place but I was afraid that my application wasn't good enough for many colleges. Congrats on those accepted and best of luck for those on waitlists.</p>
<p>does anyone know how many kids are on oberlin's waitlist. someone on this thread wrote 800, but why in the world would a college do that? it seems almost cruel to hold out hope for that many kids....</p>
<p>This isn't only Oberlin - this is virtually all schools. Unfortunately, there is a very slight chance of acceptance after having been placed on the waiting list. Schools already have a sense of the percentage of students who take them up on their offer of acceptance. Kids essentially gain admittance from the waiting list only when students leave the school. A mere handful gain admission this way each year.</p>
<p>While it seems cruel, it is also a kindness that assuages the hurt feelings of highly qualified candidates after having been rejected from a school that was buried under an avalanche of highly qualified candidates.</p>
<p>Admssion to most top schools - especially this year - is a real crapshoot.</p>
<p>I am seeing kids more qualified then previous years' kids get rejected from schools they would have probably been accepted to only 3-4 years ago. Admissions are up 5%-20% in many schools.</p>
<p>So, Old Prof, are you saying that a kid shouldn't hold out any hope of getting off the waitlist--that it's just a nice way of a school saying "if we didn't have kids with high stats, we would like to have taken you.."</p>
<p>I suppose that's fair, but if that's the case, I hesitate to encourage my daughter to try to get off the waitlist...</p>
<p>You should contact the school and ask how the waitlist works and what the chances are. They may be better than you think (or not...but it would be good to know from the source).</p>
<p>Thanks Mamenyu. My daughter did that and was told that they do sometimes go to their waitlist and that they'd have a better sense in a few weeks of whether or not they would this year. She seemed to come away feeling hopeful, but she is 17 and eternally optimistic....</p>
<p>Best of luck!</p>
<p>Accepted to Oberlin, John F. Oberlin Scholarship.
Actually I'm the Vietnamese daphne109 was talking about. However I think I'm going to Oberlin :D The faculty is soooooooo warm and caring. The next four years would be great:)</p>