<p>^^^I have read that Vanderbilt is absolutely committed to housing all freshmen in the Commons, perhaps leading to a lower number of offers of admission during the regular round than would be the case if they still had the option of putting extra freshmen in some of the other dorms. That would lead me to predict that they will be going to the waitlist, unless, of course, their yield is extremely high.</p>
<p>Hi midmo!
When my daughter looked at the housing application, there is an interesting note about trying to place all freshmen in the Commons but they reserve the right to put overflow in other housing situations, like study areas or upperclass housing. I actually told my D that if she really wanted to attend Vanderbilt, she needed to get her deposit in asap so she would not be stuck somewhere else.
Since Vanderbilt has really stepped up their financial aid, I hope they don’t overenroll this year compared to last year!</p>
<p>Bettzke - What are you looking at to know Elon’s been taking WL kids for weeks? This entire WL thing is complex!</p>
<p>hope4freeride, hello,</p>
<p>I’ve having a good time trying to imagine what “study areas” Vanderbilt is reserving for overflow freshmen housing! Let’s see, there is the foyer with the nice chairs over at Featheringill engineering building, where students can be seen studying and dozing all day and evening. I guess they’ll just have to move elsewhere if freshmen are living in that space next year. The big open reception area at Branscomb Quad. dorms?</p>
<p>What on earth are they referring to? I like Vanderbilt a lot, but I wouldn’t pay their R and B bill for some cobbled together housing arrangement.</p>
<p>My S received a call from Providence College tonight with an offer of acceptance off the wait list.</p>
<p>I saw on another board that University of Rochester has started to accept students off its WL. The posts indicated that accepted students were being notified via FedEx.</p>
<p>Lehigh…</p>
<p>Here’s the link to the thread where I found out about Elon’s waitlist activity: </p>
<p>[<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/elon-university/705258-waitlist-activity.html][/url”>Waitlist Activity? - Elon University - College Confidential Forums][/url</a>]</p>
<p>I hope they are starting, My D’s clasmate got WL to every school she applied to.We want to sdee happy kids!</p>
<p>Someone I know is off the waitlist at Duke.</p>
<p>My S was accepted last night by e-mail at Temple.</p>
<p>Congratulations.</p>
<p>My son’s friend got off the WL at Georgetown today</p>
<p>Waitlist acceptances @ U of Chicago have begun. </p>
<p>My son got an offer from Union (NY) today. He is WL @ 6 schools, 3 of which he cares about. my wife is for accepting all offers and paying all deposits until he’s in where he wants to be and is wanted. Out comes the check book…</p>
<p>Grinnell has gone to their WL.</p>
<p>No news to report yet, but I love this thread. My S is on BC and Cornell’s wait lists. Let you know if I hear anything.</p>
<p>bristolstomp - it is not kosher to multiple commit. There are other kids that would like a WL spot that you are holding, tell your wife this is not a dinner reservation for Sat night. There is also a chance those schools would rescind their offers if they should find out. There was a long discussion about it.</p>
<p>Friend’s daughter got into Vermont yesterday. Others heard from Goucher last week…</p>
<p>son got his offer from his first choice college. he has ALREADY withdrawn from the WL of the first school that called today AND the school he put a deposit down on. I understand everyone’s concern about the multiple waitlist commitment. that’s why I didn’t let him send a “If you ask me to come I will accept” email to anyone but his first choice. They asked and he accepted. The other school asked him without any contact on his part beyond turning in the little card at the beginning of the process in April. </p>
<p>On the other hand, if your S/D was WL at 3 schools and all 3 were better than his/her accepted school, he would be foolish to not show interest in all three, which my son did, of 6 WL choices. S has worked hard enough to go to the best he can get into. He did not encourage the other 3 AT ALL.
If your son or daughter ONLY sent in 1 WL card, you just denied her the chance to get in to any other school she liked better than the schools that accepted her. That is NOT in her best interests…and you can discuss it as much as you like, but I believe all the kids deserve to get into the best school they want to go to, and release the rest.</p>
<p>bristol - maybe I misread your post. I thought you said your wife is making multiple deposits. If your wife just turned in your kid’s WL cards and accepting one school at a time then there is no issue. Congratulations on your son’s acceptance. Hope he gets better news later.</p>