<p>Sorry I sort of asked this in other threads, but I think people are too excited to answer, so I'm gonna start a thread!</p>
<p>How does waitlist work? Chances/reactions? Will someone please explain? Thanks!</p>
<p>I just got waitlisted which sucks either way because they are not need blind for waitlistees.</p>
<p>Oh damn, I forgot they aren’t need blind to waitlistees. Ugh.</p>
<p>it’s ■■■■■■■■, i got into duke, but waitlisted JHU and northwestern!</p>
<p>Last year 1319 students accepted waitlist status, and 46 were accepted. But, who knows what is gone to happen this year. Either way chances are slim.</p>
<p>Waitlisted. But I couldn’t care less.</p>
<p>A lot of Wait List info here:</p>
<p>[Hopkins</a> Insider: A Post for Those on the Wait List](<a href=“http://hopkins.typepad.com/hopkins_insider/2007/04/a_post_for_thos.html]Hopkins”>http://hopkins.typepad.com/hopkins_insider/2007/04/a_post_for_thos.html)</p>
<p>• 2006 – No offers of admission from the wait list.
• 2005 - No offers of admission from the wait list.
• 2004 - Approximately 150 students were admitted from the wait list.
• 2003 - Approximately 100 offers.
• 2002 - No offers.
• 2001 - Approximately 50 offers.
• 2000 - No offers.</p>
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<p>This sounds like 46 eventual matriculants, rather than acceptances. The yield of offered spots off the waitlist wouldn’t be 100%, right? The Adcoms would need call waitlistees to offer a spot, some of whom would have since moved on will turn it down.</p>
<p>^ Me neither. I sort of cried a bit when I saw the letter (which, in my admittedly biased state, I found a tad insincere) but now, an hour later, I’m fully over it. Maybe for grad school?</p>
<p>this is going to sound obnoxious, but does jhu have tufts syndrome? please say yes…if i couldn’t get into jhu, i’m sooo incredibly freaked out right now for the ivies.</p>
<p>No JHU does not have Tufts syndrome, lol.</p>
<p>JHU looks like it was super hard to get into this year.<br>
Doesn’t hurt to stay on the waitlist honestly.</p>
<p>lol. desparate senior,
i got into northwestern waitlisted at jhu and duke.</p>
<p>waitlisted! =(</p>
<p>waitlisted as well, I guess I’ll stay on for the heck of it…</p>
<p>Emp, “for the heck of it…” ?! Do you really actually want to go to Hopkins? Because if not, then maybe you should leave the opportunity for those who do. If you already got into your number one school then don’t just stay on it for a chance to get admitted for your ego.</p>
<p>I only said just for the heck of it because I believe there is a very, very small chance I will get off the wait list. This is not for my ego, I was going to apply ED to Hopkins but was unable to do to money issues at home. So, yes, I said that because I don’t think I’ll get off the wait list but might as well try without trying to get my hopes up. Sorry…</p>
<p>so from what i can tell, waitlist is a kinder way to phrase rejection?</p>
<p>yes, but not for all students…</p>
<p>Ah okay, my apologies, Emp! I’ve just been getting bugged lately by some things some people I know say.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s meant to be a nicer way to reject you. Lol. I think it’s just so if they have room after some people decide not to matriculate there, they’ll review the waitlistees and accept some to fill the projected class size. So it could ultimately be a win for a few people.</p>
<p>kiiki, is there a pattern in this, cause it’s so weird, how a higher ranked school would accept me but not a lower ranked school, esp. this year duke had the lowest admission rate in its history-17%. what kind of people do they want?</p>