Wait lists, are they bad?

<p>I just found out that I got put on the wait list for CSU Long Beach and I am neither happy nor sad. I have no idea if a wait list offers a good chance of getting into a school or if it is a nice way of saying that you basically have been rejected. Any thoughts on this? </p>

<p>My son was waitlisted for CSULB last year. The drag about WL is, it can take forever - well into the commit window for other schools. Getting good on-campus housing as a last minute add is also problematic. We hadn’t heard back by mid May - so we stopped monitoring their portal. He enrolled in another CSU that was happy to have him.</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>