Boston University’s first bigger wave of waitlist decisions came out yesterday. It’s getting close. Today marks one week from the enrollment extension date given last week. I feel like Penn’s first wave will be today or tomorrow. Good luck everyone.
2 Likes
Hopefully, we’ll get in. I really want to see you guys in campus this fall 
1 Like
Okay thanks so much!!
besties, i am nervous. I wish you all the best though. I had a quick question though. if the first wave were to come out, do they automatically inform some waitlisted applicants that they are rejected or are most people just kept on the waitlist for longer? also, i only submitted a LOCI and idk if that’s enough 
1 Like
i, sadly, don’t think they do rejections until the very end. also i think an LOCI is perfect. i mean that’s kind of all they ask for. best of luck bestie <3
1 Like
Someone on Reddit called the office and he/she wrote:
“They said decisions will come out on a rolling basis, throughout May and June and possibly July. They couldn’t disclose if people were taken off the waitlist yet.”
Do you think this is good news? Or not?
thats fine; since we know decisions will be coming out because they said they’ll release them through those three months. also the months seem to match with what other people have been saying. dw it’ll be alright
2 Likes
That’s what the admission office has been saying for a while so at this point I really just treat it as a neutral statement.
They don’t remove you off the waitlist until the end but there is a extended waitlist.
I’ll call in one hour since they’re off for lunch break right now.
I don’t agree that everyone stays on the waitlist until the end. I think they do rolling rejections as they do rolling admits.
For Example: Let’s say they ended up having 10 gaps to fill for Wharton, but they put 100 kids on the Wharton waitlist. If they made rolling admits to their waitlist pool and filled those 10 gaps quickly with enrollment confirmations, I think they will release the rest.
Other schools do rolling rejections from waitlist so I don’t know why Penn wouldn’t also do that.
5th call to Admissions after Commitment Day:
The lady couldn’t provide any information on how well the class (I asked for both Wharton and Penn as a whole) is filling up or if the yield rate was higher than expected. She said that they haven’t started reviewing waitlist applicants yet because they are busy with transfer applications since decisions for those are released on Monday. I asked if there will be decisions released this month, she said no and that it’ll be released in June and through July and the earliest will be early June.
At this point, I don’t even have the energy to treat this as negative or positive, I’m just going to take this as a neutral response because to a great extent I have always believed that this year’s waitlist activity is definitely going to be smaller than last years (100+) but I’m hoping it’ll greater than the year when only 9 were admitted off the waitlist.
3 Likes
Oof are they really going to make us wait until June??? That’s really disappointing. But thanks for calling!
You know I think the best explanation to this is that they are not in a hurry to admit waitlist students which means that their class is filling up pretty well. They have to know that the later they contact people, the less likely they’ll enroll because of money paid to other schools and the interest developed for other schools. In past year, when ever they admit a good amount of people from the waitlist, the process had always started early from like a couple days after commitment day and the dean calls himself, that shows that they need people for the class. But in this year’s situation, it’s either they really don’t need that much people or just because of the new admissions dean they have chooses to work another route (which is unlikely since he has been working with the committee and the old admissions dean for a good amount of years).
2 Likes
Yeah, I think if they were interested in admitting people off the waitlist they would start early, like Princeton did. Now I feel bad because I was really hoping that I’d get in, but seeing that they haven’t even started makes me disappointed. It might sound dumb, but I feel like it’s unfair that other Ivy’s are releasing their results and admitting people off the waitlist. I can’t really describe the feeling, but you probably get it. It feels like both a missed opportunity and injustice 
2 Likes
this is really depressing.
Geez… this is crazy.
Thanks for calling.
Yes I totally understand how you feel but I think sometimes things are just out of our control and we just never know, maybe a lot of spots will be emptied out for us as Penn admits choose other schools. We should just focus on what’s ahead of us and not making comparisons because there’s Princeton admitting a good number of people but there’s also Dartmouth that publicly announced they’re full so there’s always something better and something worse, only what we have stays constants
I’m not good at comforting people but one thing I know is that we were all waitlisted at an Ivy which means that we got to that tier!
2 Likes
totally agree with this
2 Likes
this dude contradicted the statements made by the rep u called today, no?