<p>I have now been waitlisted at 5 schools (Middlebury, Colgate, Claremont McKenna, WashU, and Vassar). I am waiting to hear from 5 more schools but I wouldn't be surprised if I am waitlisted at those also.</p>
<p>What can I do? I really thought I would have been accepted to one of these schools... </p>
<p>I am planning on writing letters to each school, making phone calls, and even visiting (Middlebury is my 1st choice so I am definitely going up there)</p>
<p>IS THERE ANYTHING ElSE I CAN DO- I AM ABSOLUTELY FREAKING OUT!</p>
<p>Good luck! This is a really weird year- tons of great applicants applying to more schools than ever before, so the borderline admits of the past seem to be waitlisted this year. Don't worry. The yield should probably be lower so almost every school will be dipping into their wait lists. Make sure you tell Middlebury they are your first choice. I know three months seems forever now but it'll be worth it when you get into one of those schools. And you will!</p>
<p>have you been accepted to anywhere yet? i'm hoping you didn't consider any of those extremely competitive schools a safety. personally, after being waitlisted by all my schools that i thought i would be perfect for me (including my favorite safety) i've accepted that i'm going to the best school i did get into. i know that while it isn't perfect for me, i'll be happy there and get a great education. </p>
<p>also, you should be a little flattered by some of those waitlists; i know i was when i was wait listed by schools i thought i would for sure be rejected from like wesleyan, carleton, and CMC.</p>
<p>My very first 2 results were waitlist! I read somewhere that this year is "the waitlist year". So we will just have to wait and see what will happen.</p>
<p>Infinite_Truth, I disagree. The waitlist is not necessarily stat manipulation or yield protection. It's more a case of overenrollment protection.</p>
<p>This year, students are applying to more schools each than ever before. Since each can still only go to one college, yields have to go down pretty much across the board. By how much, admissions offices don't know. If they underestimate the yield, they run the risk of overenrolling. If they overestimate it (play it safe), they accept too few people to fill the class, so they need to go to the waitlist. But if they didn't waitlist enough people, they still wouldn't be able to fill their class (remember that the waitlist has a yield of its own because not everybody taken off it enrolls) with qualified applicants. </p>
<p>Therefore, the current waitlisting phenomenon is simply the colleges playing it safe. This is the year of the waitlist not only because of how many are bing placed on the waitlists, but because of how many will be taken off of them as well. Don't consider a waitlist a rejection this year.</p>
<p>d4r7h3v1l, true, I was just making a overgeneralization. However there are some cases this year where students who are "overqualified" are being waitlisted, and it is with that practice that I disagree with.</p>
<p>Infinite_Truth, granted, some schools do use this type of policy, and I disagree with it. However, if you think about it, yield protection is also becoming more important the more schools people apply to. While before, a school would only have to worry about its "overqualified" admits matriculating at one of 4 other schools, now that number would be 6 or 7. There is even less of a chance of said school to be the student's final choice.</p>
<p>Of course, I disagree with the practice in principal because it doesn't take into account that many like schools even if they are indeed "overqualified". Everybody needs safety or match schools, whether these colleges like it or not.</p>
<p>Hi everyone. I have the waitlisting problem too....</p>
<p>I've been waitlisted at four schools. They are: Lehigh University, Rennselaer, Carnegie Mellon, and Cornell University. Carnegie Mellon put me on a priority waiting list, and they have asked me to send them a response by april 11th telling them if I want to remain on their priority waiting list. The only thing is that If I remain on this list, and if I'm accepted, I have to enroll there. I've also been accepted to Johns Hopkins and Bucknell University. So, you can see how I have a big dilemma. I'm going to major in Mechanical Engineering, and before all this my top choices were Carnegie Mellon and Cornell. However, I'm not so sure I could go to Carnegie Mellon if I got into Cornell. Does anyone have any advice?</p>
<p>Three so far - Barnard, Emory, and Tulane (which is absolutely ridiculous because I am so overqualified for Tulane) - and I would kill to be admitted to either of the first two.</p>