Deferred/wait listed by both of the schools I have applied to. Honestly, I think it is unjust for so many to not receive solid answers.
Waitlist but no surprise
Congrats to all those accepted, weight off your back, RIGHT!!? For everyone else, the heavy-heart will pass in time. Bygones. Focus on the ‘GLASS 1/2 FULL’ - lots of upcoming decisions to other AMAZING schools!!
@itbit @wannagotovandy I had familial circumstances that forced me to stay home for a year. I didn’t get the gap year offer but I had the opportunity to study at Columbia full time as a nondegree student while fulfilling those responsibilities (30 min drive from my house). Now that I am free to leave home I reapplied. I took the hardest math and physics classes at Columbia and took two other classes and did well (3.6 gpa 1st semester). Maybe they thought I wouldn’t attend because I would be forfeiting credit? idk. I also applied to a bunch of schools as a transfer.
@Ashtash - Now I understand; THANKS!
UChicago sounds like a guy trailing around a whole bunch of girls to see which one he likes more
I know that’s stereotypical I just find it strange that sooo many people are waitlisted
@wannagotovandy Yea aren’t about 12% of applicants WL?
@chessplayer101 I guess I could kind of be put in the same situation except this was my first year applying. Last year I just didn’t apply due to special circumstances. This year I took all my classes at Marquette University and did well, so because we have roughly the same stats, it probably just has to do with the reapplication.
I still don’t get the gap year 2023. Is it an offer or just another waitlist?
@wannagotovandy Did you accumulate transferable credit? If so, are you also applying to places as a transfer?
@Ashtash where is the 12% from? have looked but all I can seem to find is total # waitlisted from like 2012
It’s another application, effectively. They expect to offer some people on the waitlist guaranteed admission in 2019 if they take a gap year (i.e., no enrolling elsewhere). They want to know if you would like to be considered for that.
It’s likely they have thousands of people on the waitlist, and the number of people they’ll make a firm offer to re 2019 admission probably isn’t as many as 100, so saying you would like to be considered now is just getting another lottery ticket. But some people somewhere are going to get that offer in a month or two, and be very happy to get it.
My daughter was a 403 error earlier today with the link: https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/slate
She was waitlisted.
@chessplayer101 Not really, it’s a little more complicated. I had the choice of graduating high school in three years (so after my junior year), and then I could’ve gone to a college but because I would’ve been 16 when I entered college (I also skipped a grade on top of that) and because of some health issues, I stayed enrolled at my high school, who then payed for my classes at Marquette. So I do have transferable credit, but not technically a transfer student
@JHS I know an unhooked girl that was admitted off Chicago’s waitlist last year around April or May and they asked her to do a gap year. She was sooooo excited!
So many waitlisted kids this year makes me assume they’re REALLY concerned with “enrollment management”? Didn’t they accept too many 2-3 years ago?
Unhooked?
It’s just weird that the data for how many are waitlisted isn’t found anywhere
My son was waitlisted Regular Decision. He doesn’t have anything in his thing about a Gap year…is that a bad sign that he’s less likely to get picked off the waitlist, or doesn’t it matter? Like others on here I’d love to know stats - % placed on WL, % of WL applicants the actually get an offer and when…
I don’t know the percentage that are waitlisted, that isn’t posted anywhere. But I do know that 3.5% are accepted off of the waitlist