UChicago 2022 Waitlist Thread

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Hey y’all :smiley: How many people are wait listed every year?

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Same here. Does anyone know how many ED2 applicants were waitlisted, and how many people UChicago take off the waitlist?

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S waitlisted but Chicago doesn’t publish Common Data Set so IDK where you’d find those statistics. I did see that their waitlist is not ranked. Does that mean they literally pick names at random to admit if spots become available?Yikes… Who knew it eventually comes down to sheer luck…

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Most likely it means that they pull from the waitlist based on what UChicago needs at the moment rather than ranking them beforehand. Maybe they have no authors, or tennis stars, or need more kids from a certain state to balance out the class.

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I just got waitlisted :frowning:

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waitlisted

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https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-odds-of-being-admitted-to-the-University-of-Chicago-after-being-put-on-a-wait-list

^this is interesting

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Hmmm. I’m a waitlist too. Don’t want to lose hope, but I’m happy that I have other options.

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International waitlisted student…

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D WL Bummed!

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Waitlist, lol

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Waitlisted as well. I wonder how many people got waitlisted. Is this a good sign for other colleges?

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I feel better that I was waitlisted rather than rejected. Yale hit me hard at SCEA

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Same here…

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International waitlisted student… Any idea how many are waitlisted?

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i don’t know about y’all but i was pretty shocked (in a good way) about the waitlist because i 100% expected rejection lol

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“i don’t know about y’all but i was pretty shocked (in a good way) about the waitlist because i 100% expected rejection lol”

it is a rejection. they’re manipulating you, hoping you tell everyone at school you “ALMOST!” got in, so they can keep getting more and more gullible kids applying.

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I don’t know about the above. It’s a form of yield protection, I believe, because I think a number of applicants who had high enough scores that they are likely to be going elsewhere also got “waitlisted.”

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I like being on the waitlist. I like being told that I still was impressive enough that they’d consider me. Even if I didn’t go, it made me feel better than being rejected.

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@midwestsahm u must be fun at parties ! no but in all seriousness i know ure right–i’m just tryna make myself feel better :slight_smile:

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