<p>My daughter is wait listed at UD (top pick). Can anyone tell me when is the earliest/latest she should hear something. Do most wait listed students get in? Do you hear bad/good news at the same time? No one has requested more from her, should she be expected admissions to contact her? Thanks</p>
<p>You or your guidance counselor should be contacting them with:</p>
<p>1) updated grades and awards</p>
<p>2) additional “Why Delaware” essay</p>
<p>3) commitment to attend if accepted</p>
<p>Unless this is already been done…</p>
<p>The following was posted by tapdance on 3/15:</p>
<p>"According to the UDel Common Data Set the statistics for the waitlist for last year are:</p>
<p>Number of qualified applicants offered a place on waiting list 1,952
Number accepting a place on the waiting list 857
Number of wait-listed students admitted 285
Number of wait-listed students enrolled 105</p>
<p>It also says that they don’t rank the wait list, so it must be first-come first served.</p>
<p>The full dataset is here: <a href="http://www.udel.edu/IR/cds/cds1112.pdf">http://www.udel.edu/IR/cds/cds1112.pdf</a>"</p>
<p>I know that by this time last year they already had taken people off the waitlist. I have not heard yet of anyone being taken off the list this year. I suspect the number will peak in early May once the May 1 deadline for regular acceptances is reached. I would agree with Rodney’s suggestions-they certainly wouldn’t hurt ones chances. Maybe also ask your D’s HS Guidance Counselor to call your D’s admissions rep at UD and again recommend highly your D. Best of luck to your D.</p>
<p>I would suggest your daughter write a heartfelt letter explaining why she would like to come and reiterating that she will attend if admitted. I’ve never heard of that to fail at UD.</p>
<p>Two years ago, my daughter was waitlisted. We returned the slip of paper requesting to be placed on the list the day we received it. We live close so I know they probably received it the next day!! We didn’t do anything else, no more letters of recommendation or calls from couselors. I’m not sure how they figure out who they pull from the waitlist, if it’s the first to respond, if it’s according to major or gpa/sat’s. My daughter was just their average applicant and she found out right after May 1st that she had gotten in. I think the only reason they started pulling people off the waitlist early last year was because of the mistake that happened with their nofications of acceptances to students that were supposed to be waitlisted. Hang in there, it is a stressful time, but it does tend to all work out!</p>
<p>Thanks for everyones advise and encouragement!!! Yes the stress is terrible, can’t wait for it to be over.
SUZYT123 How did your daughter find out she was accepted, Phone call, acceptance package in mail, email? How about the students that were not accepted, same way? </p>
<p>What did she major in and is she happy with her choice?
Thanks</p>
<p>Actualy UD has taken students in from the waitlist in April (or earlier) for at least several years, not just last year, but the majority are probably accepted after May 1. If they use the “first come/first served” approach to taking students in off the waitlist then they probably have to do this by major applied for (with general studies being considered an informal “major”), because many majors have only limited admission slots. </p>
<p>There is one other very select situation where a student might be able to increase their chances of being taken in off the waitlist. That is if an applicant applied for a highly competitve major (i.e. chemical engineering, nursing, and several others), has made a serious genuine decision that they would rather apply for a less competitive major (or general studies), were waitlisted for the highly competitve major, that they should contact the admissions department and make them aware of this. Students who are waitlisted for these highly competitive majors “tend” to have higher stats/admission appeal overall compared to other students waitlisted for less competitive majors or general studies. I know of at least several students who this seemed to work for in the past. Obviously there are no guarantees. Just a word of warning about doing this. One should not do this just to get onto UD with the idea that once in they could subsequently transfer later into the highly competitive major. The odds of successfully being able to do this are extremely, extremely poor. I know this maneuver would only be applicable to a very small number of students but I just thought I would mention it. Best of luck to all those waiting.</p>
<p>brownie58, when i applied to the waitlist they said that they are most likely to contact us by email as soon after may 1st as possible!!!</p>
<p>She was notified by email. Since they had already had “Accepted Student Day”, they still invited them down (although not for a particular day since people were getting off the list at random times). We went down and they still showed the big “WELCOME” video and then paired each accepted student with a tour guide. I don’t know if it was planned or coincidental but she had a girl from her major and it was fantastic. The tour was geared totally towards my daughter. My daughter is a Communications major. She has been beyond happy at Delaware, witht the exception of one bad teacher. She dreads summer and hates winter session because she hates being away from the school and her life in Newark!! Best of luck to you!! Fingers crossed for good news soon!</p>
<p>another note to brownie58, in addition to the email, she did receive the packet in the mail but obviously a few days later.</p>