I need off this wait list!! If not I have to attend UF and I do not want to stay in Florida!! I just found out that Chicago has a division 3 track team and I started doing track this year (I really want to continue it in college). My stats are almost up to par. If I contact the track coach and tell them I plan on joining the track team, would this help my chances? Is this something to update admission about? Thanks.
hmm good question, well it never hurts to try!! So you could contact the track coach @Cazoon
Ok thank you! My track coach is calling him today, I just don’t know if I should email admissions about it if he wants me on the team
I am going to make a post for it
@Cazoon I feel like you would have to be incredibly good to be recruited for sports though. (Not implying you aren’t but like if you just started they might think that its just a gimmick)
Well unfortunately my career center specialist who is good friends with my regional admissions officer is saying that there will be a low acceptance rate off the waiting list because their numbers look good for admissions (so people are taking their spots as admitted students to UChicago)-- chances are slim so idk I am really upset because this process is so random and complicated :///
@tesfayeB Aww, well how low is low? Like 50 people? Also, I don’t understand how they can start offering people spots in April. But usually when do they start accepting off waitlists?
I am not sure really, they don’t have a specific number yet. And it’s weird I don’t get that either because they say wait until after May 1st, it’s so complicated. Typically they start offering people spots after May 1st. @Lanie49
Thanks @tesfayeB!
The only thing is I’m an international student so when I try to get the contact info for my regional counsellor, I just get the general international email address…
I’m not sure this is the email address i should be using…
Well scroll down to International, and then it gets more specific and they break it into contents and regions. I hope that helps. I am rooting for you @graduatingin2015
move on people. I have a child who attended UofC and it is a hard, hard, unforgiving school. Lots of stressed out kids . . . Just another perspective.
And I have a child who just turned down her spot to commit elsewhere, so there’s at least one person who’s getting off the WL. Good luck everyone.
@erlanger Could you please elaborate? Lol, I think might just give up and go to
Vanderbilt.
@MinneMom2 what major and state?
@Lanie49 - undecided major from MN
I don’t understand this process, it’s really frustrating… I just got an alumni friend to write me to the school on why they should take me off the waiting list :-/
hey @tesfayeB, may i know which region you are from?
when you wrote follow-up emails, did you cc the general email address as well?
I wrote to my regional counselor and he replied after like two hours so it was very nice anyway (I’m international)
My friend who got off the waiting list for MIT last year says that they literally take people that will fill what they lack and will accept.
So here’s an example of someone who has a good chance of being accepted:
- Demonstrates strong interest
- Major
- Region
- Very qualified in the first place
I think number 4 is pretty key since there all a bunch of people that will commit, has the right major, and possibly in the right region, but we have to remember that wait listers can range from people that really should have been accepted, but got unlucky, and people that barely made the cut to be on wait list.
Just like when you applied originally, essays and (demonstrated interest) and luck can only account for so much, but you really need to be academically superb. The letters and such are very important, but only matter if you have enough actual substance. Not saying you need a 2400 SAT score, but you really should be close to have a better chance. They are now looking for people that will add to the class to make it look better on paper. (ie a 2400 will bring their average up or people with demonstrated interest and will commit will bring their yield up) So really, they are in a lot of ways more picky for wait lists.
Btw, this post is obviously very opinionated and I’m just writing this in hopes of helping someone out and offering another view on this situation.
Is it too late to write to my regional admissions person? It seems like so many people are writing to them now, but I read that it is better to write to them after May 1 when they are not as busy and are actually looking at the wait list.
It does not matter when you write them, my regional counselor wrote me that they save the emails and add to the application file, which they evaluate again in May