<p>So i checked my decision today and I am on the waitlist for BU (my top school). Does anybody know how BU does their waitlist and what my chances of being accepted are?
Do you guys think my admissions decision could have be affected by not submitting the FAFSA or CSS Profile because i don’t need financial aid?</p>
<p>I was wait listed as well and honestly there are so many emotions going through my head right now. I don’t really want to go too far from home, and BU was a solid 20 minute drive away and I thought my chances were solid.</p>
<p>2100 SAT, 3.6 UW GPA, 4.1 Weighted and wrestling captain- what gives? So many kids who are less qualified than I am got in, and I just don’t know what to do. I figure for a school like BU, wait list may as well be rejection, as they seem to throw anyone half qualified onto this list.</p>
<p>“Boston University placed 1,451 students on its waiting list, and after all was said and done, four students were accepted”</p>
<p>Looks like we’re not going to BU. Sucks.</p>
<p>I saw different numbers somewhere else, much much higher. Maybe that’s just how many kids actually enrolled off of the waitlist</p>
<p>What is your source?</p>
<p>I did a google search and found this article:</p>
<p>[Playing</a> the Waiting Game - CollegeBound.net](<a href=“http://www.collegebound.net/content/article/playing-the-waiting-game/1279/]Playing”>http://www.collegebound.net/content/article/playing-the-waiting-game/1279/)</p>
<p>Although I got into BU, I was waitlisted @ case western, Lehigh, CMC, and scripps. So I know how you guys feel! It sucks to be waitlisted especially at your top choice or a school you think you’d get into for sure, and sadly, the odds of getting off the waitlist are against you… my advice would be to stay on the waitlist, and ask your college counselor to write a nice email to BU admissions telling them how much to love the school and that it is your first choice. You, too, can write a letter to the admissions office telling them what you like about BU, and maybe updating them on the more recent successes in your life. Good luck!!</p>
<p>and @ headingsouth, I think perhaps BU knew that with your stats, you’d get into somewhere better than BU and go there instead. It might be “tufts syndrome” where they take the middle 50% rather than the best.</p>
<p>I appreciate the thought misssusu, but I don’t think my stats are so far above BU’s standards that they went Tufts syndrome on me. It just sucks because I am now basically forced to go to Tulane, a worse school about 1500 miles Southwest of home.</p>
<p>i read that article too. to clarify things, i was put on the waitlist too. I looked up BU’s admission stats from last year and saw that 1,104 people accepted a place on the waitlist and 771 were given acceptance from the waitlist. NOW, four people may have enrolled from that acceptance, but i doubt it. Here are the statistics. [Powered</a> by Google Docs](<a href=“http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:uWBAx9Cnd4IJ:www.bu.edu/oir/files/2011/01/cds0910-C.pdf+boston+university+waitlist+2010&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShxwHJ4Dgoj411AWg5V9hmWG6-iLU9yE9Y2KgRkLqHHmSJ8SLQUwub8xUxOisU04tk7kYCrh4jY7FFzft4VhersPu8F1AjxCT0X1cDtulE56lo0dCHeVZ82Q71nykJfF6FINoUI&sig=AHIEtbRuDrY5Eboo0-J3d_dPbZMhWTv7jg&pli=1]Powered”>http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:uWBAx9Cnd4IJ:www.bu.edu/oir/files/2011/01/cds0910-C.pdf+boston+university+waitlist+2010&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShxwHJ4Dgoj411AWg5V9hmWG6-iLU9yE9Y2KgRkLqHHmSJ8SLQUwub8xUxOisU04tk7kYCrh4jY7FFzft4VhersPu8F1AjxCT0X1cDtulE56lo0dCHeVZ82Q71nykJfF6FINoUI&sig=AHIEtbRuDrY5Eboo0-J3d_dPbZMhWTv7jg&pli=1)</p>
<p>That is interesting to see those two figures contradict by about 200x… Wonder which one is right.</p>
<p>I believe BU’s official data set from '09-'10 will be more accurate than a random article that mentions BU’s waitlist (it doesn’t even specify the year). Anyways, i am going to call up BU to clarify this nonsense.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t call it a random website- I had heard of collegebound.net in the past, but I also did not realize that those were official BU data sets…</p>
<p>i’m really sorry to hear that this happened to your #1 school.
if you have the time and nerves to do more to increase possibly your chances for bu, go ahead write or have your counselor do that.
however, in the mean time, stay strong for any other schools that you’ll hear from. Also if you ve gotten into any others that you are considering, come to love those.</p>
<p>now im just confused…i checked for an updated data set on BU’s website and this is what i found: <a href=“http://www.bu.edu/oir/files/2011/03/cds-c.pdf[/url]”>http://www.bu.edu/oir/files/2011/03/cds-c.pdf</a>
how can the number of accepted students on a waitlist change that much???</p>
<p>I was waitlisted and I’m wondering how waitlisted even works…is it rolling decision? Or do they send the results all at once again.</p>
<p>In 2009, BU accepted 771 people off its wait list. In 2010, BU accepted 8 people off itrs waitlist.</p>
<p>Eight…people…out of …like God knows how many people accepted the wait list…</p>
<p>amazing. a 70% yield to a .7% yield. lol. does that mean that BU will accept the same amount of students off the waitlist this year?</p>
<p>Yeah…uhm…there goes my chance at BU.</p>
<p>really wonder what my chances are</p>
<p>I was accepted into Spring, and yesterday at the Welcome Reception in my city I talked to one of the admissions directors. She said that since this year there were possibly about 50 students accepted into the Spring Semester, they plan to first figure out how much room they need to fill after May 1. Let’s say that they need 75 more students. They’re going to offer the fall admissions to the 50 Spring Students first, since they already sent in their deposit and are going to BU for sure in the spring. After they get that number, then they will go to the waitlist and get the last 25.</p>