Figured I’d start a thread for all of us that got waitlisted.
My stats:
34 ACT
1500 SAT
4.00 UW 4.92 W (102.9 average)
Average ECs
Good essays
Good Letters of Rec
White male from Mississippi
Applied to major in Biology
Best of luck to everyone.
Hey! Waitlisted, I’m really hoping for the best.
34 ACT
800 on two SAT II Subject Tests
4.5 W GPA (idk my UW)
Asian female from Chicago area
Bio major
Waitlisted here. Good luck to all us waitlisted!
35 ACT
1320 overall score for OLD SAT
4.0 UW GPA
Pretty good ECs
Decent essays and recs
Biggest weakness was my course load as my small rural school doesn’t offer AP/IB/Honors classes or anything like that
White female from Mississippi
Applied to Trinity College major in pre-med or psychology (can’t remember)
33 ACT AT: 780 Math II and 750 Bio
4.0 UW GPA
National Hispanic Scholar
Great EC’s- researched RSV at local Children’s Hospital, math teacher at local Kumon, Missionary trips
AP scholar
Did anyone else have a problem with the opening line of the wait list decision? Read the first 5 words and got excited and that what was very short lived
35 ACT
1570 new SAT (770 reading, 800 math)
SAT II: 800 Math 2, 780 Physics, 780 Chemistry, 740 US History
Rank: 1/852
GPA UW: 4.0
GPA weighted: 5.33
19 AP classes - National AP Scholar Award
National Merit Finalist
EC’s: National Honor Society, Science Honor Society, VP of Spanish Honor Society, Cross country (lettered senior year), Interned full time in a biomedical research lab at UTSW for 8 weeks, Have worked in a cell biology/genomics lab at UTSW since September 2016 (20 hrs/week), tutored 8 kids for pay over last 3 years
Volunteer: Middle school church leader, Helped at Special Olympics for 2 years, Went to several full day charity events (ie Operation Care Dallas), tutored not for money 4 students (including a student with learning disability), Circle of Friends Club
Rec letters: excellent (3 science teachers that I have amazing relationships with, the dean of graduate admissions at UTSW who runs the internship I was a part of, letter from the head of my lab who graduated from Cornell and Stanford)
Awarded Department Award in Math for past two years, awarded Department Award in Science last year
Major: Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
White female from Dallas suburbs
I am extremely upset and coping with ice cream and Netflix:-)
I wanted to share the Vanderbilt waitlist data I found and hope this information will help waitlisted students make decisions. This link to a 2016 The Washington Post article, “Top colleges put thousands in waitlist limbo and some wont accept any,” shows in 2014 Vanderbilt waitlisted 6,018 students, 4,536 students accepted a spot on the waitlist and 210 students were eventually accepted. Since the article ran, Vanderbilt has removed waitlist data from their Common Data Set for all prior years.
So getting off the wait list is slim to none.
4.6%. Have to wonder how many more eventually dropped off the waitlist or decided to attend another university. Even if that was factored in a 10% chance would seem to be more than generous.
Waitlisted for engineering here
where do we send our letters/supplements?
Guys - I just declined my admission. Hope one of you get the spot I cleared. Good luck.
@MedSciBud thanks 
where did you decide to attend?
My son just declined his spot as well.
Waitlisted by CoAS
SAT Reasoning 1580
SAT Subjects Math2 800 Physics 800 UShistory 770
Average ECs
Good essays
Pretty strong rec letters
Top 5% Rank
Applied major Political Science and/or Economics
Good luck to everyone
Anyone hear back yet?
I was just about to ask the same. Everyone has received just two follow-up emails by now right?
Yes, we have only received two so far
thanks:)
Every day I’m getting more agitated than the last.
Looks like we’ll start hearing back May 2nd?
Any action on the WL?