@Marisa58 it’s funny we both got waitlisted lol. Now I’m paranoid all my other top choices are going to WL me.
Results thread, for anyone who’s looking for it:
Waitlisted! Would really like to see what kind of stats accepted applicants had, seems like a sizable number of us are waitlisted so it’d be interesting to see what the distinguishing factor was for those admitted
Ok so i found these stats on the colleges Niche page based on last years results and I did a few percentage calculations to help you guys out:
Applicants: 30,304
Accepted: 2,670 (8.8% of applicants)
Waitlisted: 4,790 (15.8% of applicants)
Students Accepting Waitlist: 2,892 (9.5% of applicants/60% of waitlisted students)
Accepted off Waitlist: 100 (3.5% of students accepting waitlist)
So if you accept the waitlist, you have around a 4% chance of being admitted in the end which isn’t too bad considering other Ivy acceptance rates. Up to you to decide whether it’s worth it or not. Best of luck and congratulations!
@Regenerated i know it’s been so crazy! are you going to go to the reception in London?
@ibbi1824 I totally would if I didn’t live so far away and didn’t have tons of coursework to rush over the weekend haha! Are you? It will probably be full of people trying to persuade you to go 
Just got home from school. Waitlisted =((
Shockingly rejected, unless I’m somehow reading my status incorrectly.
ACT: 31
GPA: 3.97
EC’s: Strong EC’s
Strong Rec’s
9/10 Essays
I’m pretty disappointed that I didn’t at least get waitlisted.
@ibbi1824 @regenerated fellow uk admit! how stupid is it that I thought that thing was in chicago and that I wouldn’t be able to go until just now
@elaras yay! are you going to come to the reception?
@Regenerated haha probably since I live London and probably won’t be able to go to Chicago to actually see the campus 
ooh good luck with coursework! i have the last part of my history coursework due on Monday and then i’m done 
Rejected. And not even waitlisted.
Applied EA and got deferred :’(
Chicago admissions counselor even told me that she found me a very unique student and that she’ll strongly consider me.
ACT-32
SAT Subject Tests: Math 2 - 800, Chem-760.
Essays and ECs very strong
Reccs-8/10
How did I even get waitlisted?
GPA: 3.4 UW
SAT: 1540/2270
SAT Subject Tests: Physics 800, Math 2 750
Essays: I liked them, but I don’t know how good they were
ECs: They re okay
Recommendations, my physics teacher probably made a very good one, English teacher a good one, and guidance counselor maybe an okay one, not very sure.
Overall, I’m very ecstatic and hopeful for the waitlist decisions!
I’m still kinda new to the whole waitlist business, so what happens next? We accept a place on the wailist and wait until may to hear back? Doesn’t everyone have to commit to a college by May 1?
You accept, and you wait to hear, yes. May 1 is when all competitive schools want a commitment. That way, they can size up (pun intended) their incoming class, and decide whether they will make an admission offer to those waiting. If students don’t put down the money in time, they can lose their spot after May 1.
@onceuponamom So let’s say that I make the deposit on may 1 for another school and I am accepted off the waitlist. Am I allowed to choose UChicago or is the deposit binding?
I don’t believe the deposit is binding. I am not an admissions expert, but I don’t think there is anything a school can make you commit to other than by paying the deposit, you say “I plan to be at your place in the Fall”. You of course would lose the deposit.
Parent of a 3rd year here. If you were waitlisted, you may accept all waitlist offers from all your schools. Please please put a deposit down on a school by May 1st. And if you get an offer from UChicago, yes you may accept but you will probably lose the $ from the deposit to the other school.
Here is advice Grace, a UChicago admissions director, has given for the last 2 years:
03-17-2014 at 10:06 am in University of Chicago
We know many of you are wondering what you might be able to do after receiving a waitlist decision. Here are some (hopefully helpful) tips and bits of information I have for waitlisted students wondering “where do I go from here?”
This should cover most commonly asked questions about our waiting list, and I encourage you to ask any further waitlist-specific questions on this thread rather than starting a new thread.
- The only thing you need to do to be considered part of our waiting list is to accept your place on the waitlist through your UChicago Account. And, it’s perfectly fine if you don’t want to remain on our wait list! If you have been accepted to a college you would prefer to attend, it is OK to decline your place on the waiting list, too, and this can also be done through your UChicago account.
- We do hope to be able to admit students off of the waitlist, but do not know how many students we will be able to admit. In past years, our ability to take students from our waiting list has ranged widely, from zero to many dozens of students. o Remember, our ability to take students off of the waitlist this year is independent of our ability to do so in past years—when we know we will have more beds in our dorms than admitted students deciding to attend to fill them, we offer those places to students on our waiting list.
- Our waitlist is not ranked, meaning that no priority or placement is given to certain students on our waitlist vs. other students. You have a place in a pool of students who have been waitlisted rather than a ranked position in a line.
- We do not yet know if or when we will be able to extend offers of admission to students off of the waiting list. Therefore, it is imperative that waitlisted students accept and secure a place at a school to which you have been accepted by May 1, the national reply date for all colleges. We strongly encourage you to look carefully and thoughtfully at your options, and to find a place at a school that will be a good intellectual, social, and financial fit for you should UChicago not become an option.
- You may wish to indicate your continued interest in UChicago by emailing your regional admissions counselor. It only advised to send a brief email indicating that UChicago is still a top choice for you, and it’s ok to wait to do this—we strongly encourage you to wait, consider the other options you have as further decisions roll in, and then decide whether or not UChicago remains your top choice with knowledge of your other amazing possibilities. Submitting other additional material such as recommendation letters, additional essays, etc is not necessary, nor do we recommend doing so.
- We strongly discourage waitlisted students from visiting campus. Your likelihood of admission from the waiting list is not affected by a campus visit, and we won’t be able to offer you any additional information here that we couldn’t otherwise offer you by phone or by email. We want to encourage you and your parents to use your time, resources, and energy to visit schools to which you have been accepted, so that you can determine which of your (likely awesome!) options will be the best fit for you.
pwil: I hope you will not be too disappointed for too long. I wanted to tell you that I was touched by the story you wrote about your teacher who passed away. All the best to you next year. I have no doubt you’ll do something great.
@Marisa58 UCLA and UCB, Columbia, Penn, Harvard, Stanford, and a Mich accept are the overlaps. I also applied to Duke, Williams, HMC, Caltech and MIT… fingers crossed!
I’m extremely grateful, but I would trade my Duke acceptance for UChicago in a heartbeat. Waiting for a waitlist decision is excruciating!