<p>Okay, so i just got off the Duke waitlist today, and i have to give them an answer within ONE WEEK! However, NU is my first pick school and I was waitlisted there as well. I already wasted my deposit at UVA and I would prefer not to waste another deposit at Duke (IF i get into NU). For any of you who were waitlisted last year and got in...when was the earliest that you were notified?? </p>
<p>ahhh!!! i feel like all i've done the past couple of months is "wait. wait wait!!!" </p>
<p>thanks for the help! :)</p>
<p>I know of someone who just got off the NU waitlist today, so hopefully you'll hear very, very soon!</p>
<p>do you know if they called/emailed/letter?</p>
<p>I believe it was a phone call.</p>
<p>live2dance, if I were you, I would call NU Admission office and explain that your situation with the Duke waitlist and that you need their answer now.</p>
<p>okay, thanks for all the help! i'll try calling them tomorrow. i'm nervious...if i didn't get a call today, then that's probably not a very good sign :-/ lol sorry, now i'm just freaking myself out!</p>
<p>seriously youre already into a great school with duke. stop complaining about northwestern. some of us have yet to get into any school.</p>
<p>I got a Fedex yesterday from Northwestern telling me that I've been admitted from off the waiting list --and to Medill no less!</p>
<p>Funny because I never got down on my knees for them (ain't never sent no letters of rec, essays about how much I wanna go).</p>
<p>I wish you all the best of luck getting of the list</p>
<p>hmm im recinding my somewhat bitter statement from before--i got in today!! check youre online status page, my friend who got off the waitlist last week told me hers had changed to "congrats" from "waitlist" so of course i was OCD and checked it every day, and this morning it actually changed!! i havent gotten the package in the mail yet, so this was an early way to find out that i got off the waitlist which may work for you, since youre in a time crunch</p>
<p>Thanks for the heads up! We just checked the page and S is accepted into Weinberg! Congrats to those who have heard.</p>
<p>I guess Northwestern had terrible yield this year.....</p>
<p>NU - Do you have a sense of what the yield is?</p>
<p>it doesnt seem to be spectacular since so many people have gotten off the waitlist
i dont think they will release statistics until the summer but they usually never let you know how many people actually got off the waitlist</p>
<p>i think they tell you how many people either get off the waitlist or matriculate from waitlist. i remember last year it was 12</p>
<p>Well, NU took a conservative approach to the huge uptick in apps. </p>
<p>They didn't want to suffer the fate of over-enrollment, so they chose to increase their acceptances proportionately lower compared to the increase in apps. It's a difficult situation to be in, but I'm sure it's preferable to use the W/L than deal with an overly large freshman class.</p>
<p>dance - dont make a four-year decision over a couple of hundred bucks. Grab for the gusto. If Big Purple calls later, we will take up a collection for you!</p>
<p>whats the html for the status page online...</p>
<p>has anyone else heard recently from the waitlist..or does anyone know if they are still taking students off??</p>
<p>i know duke is a great school but i just really like northwestern better and i want to go there so badly! i feel like i have done everyhting that i could; sent in an additonal rec, sent in a business letter about why NU is right for me, my counselor sent in my third quarter grades....i called last week to check my status and they wouldnt tell me anything except that i was still on the waitllist.</p>
<p>i don't get it, becuase i thought duke was supposedly a harder school to get into than NU!</p>
<p>That is kind of absurd that you really want to go and they are not taking you off the waitlist (especially since your off to Duke otherwise). I know a fair amount of kids from my area that did get off the list and weren't exactly the most stellar applicants in the world.</p>
<p>so wth is going on? Is that it for the waitlist? What's the realistic chance that one may get off the waitlist if he/she hasnt by now?</p>