<p>Though I know it varies significantly from year to year, does anyone have a sense of the number of people historically that have been placed on the waitlist, and how many have been admitted from the list in recent years?</p>
<p>For most colleges there’s the percent that get accepted (in this case about 10%) and then there’s an even smaller percent that get waitlisted. I’d say no more than 5% of the total applicants get waitlisted.</p>
<p>Out of those who are waitlisted, very few end up going. This is very applicable to UChicago since they are really popular this year and out of those who they accepted, most will ultimately attend.</p>
<p>Has to be more waitlists than 5% in my opinion.</p>
<p>Yeah it looks like it from what this forum shows but that’s because most of the CC kids are really smart =). And of course those that were rejected have no need and most likely no desire to share that they were rejected.</p>
<p>A really small percentage is what most schools do though. For example I was waitlisted at Rochester and the letter I received outright told me that they waitlisted 3% of their applicants this year, and that I shouldn’t get my hopes up.</p>
<p>Top tier colleges have many years where only 30 or even none of the applicants that signed the waitlist get called back.</p>
<p>I have quite some experience with being waitlisted. Out of all the colleges I applied to, I was accepted to my in-state schools, deferred in all my early applications, and thus far waitlisted in all my RD schools. My life… =(. I know the odds are not ever in my favor, there’s that still glimmer of hope. Unfortunately that glimmer’s quite weak. On the bright side, the waitlisted applicants got entered into a group that’s more exclusive than the accepted kids! Hehe…</p>
<p>Anyways, I’m still happy for everyone who got accepted!! All of them deserved it of course!</p>
<p>Wait, I’m confused. I though schools accept kids, and the ones that don’t go there are replaced by the students on the waiting list. This is false?</p>
<p>@Brotherjames37 </p>
<p>your assumption is true. we are the back-up, second-class students T_T. Cries+blows nose</p>
<p>I think they accept more students than they expect to enroll, thus reducing (or eliminating) any openings for waitlisted students.</p>
<p>@moonrise, ohhhh. Well that makes sense.</p>
<p>@rundmc</p>
<p>Were like third-class citizens (idk even know what that means). You have the ones that were accepted and attending, the ones that were accepted and not going, and then you have us!</p>
<p>@Brotherjames37</p>
<p>Yes, indeed. We are the third-class citizens. Now if you don’t mind, I’ll find a hole in the ground to hide in. 2 waitlists in a day = traumatizing.</p>
<p>Ouch rundmc. Where was the other one? I still have to hear back from like 7 schools on the 29th.</p>
<p>Proud to be a third-class citizen, bygod. </p>
<p>Last year, Chic supposedly took about 70 people off a waitlist of 4k, out of which 2.8k chose to remain on it.</p>
<p>I think Chicago usually waitlists twice the size of its class. Can’t find enough data, though.</p>
<p>I hope I still have a chance at some other places. But getting wait-listed here definitely brought me down. I don’t have to get accepted into all the schools I applied to, I need just one.</p>
<p>Hope this doesn’t correlate with my and my other schools.</p>
<p>@Brotherjames37 </p>
<p>W&L—yes, I totally viewed it as safety/match—I’d like to console myself by telling myself that it was all because I didn’t do interviews. yea, pretty pathetic I know.</p>
<p>How does colleges with unranked waitlisted work? Randomly choose a person? By major?</p>
<p>Same. 3 Waitlists overall…</p>
<p>@ rundmc</p>
<p>If they don’t have enough black clarinetists that choose to attend, they accept 3 off the waitlist. If they have 8 line backers and 1 quarter back, they’ll accept another 2 of the waitlist. if they have nobody from FLorida, they’ll take 1 off the WL, etc… etc…</p>
<p>B LISTERS OF CC UNITE!
I’m not really pinning any dreams on this. The likelihood of getting off a university’s waitlist is really slim, IMO</p>
<p>For the class of 2015, most likely 93 were taken off the wait-list.
In its first announcement 3,446 was accepted.
[Stanford</a> and Duke Accepted How Many? Colleges Report 2011 Admission Figures - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/30/admit-stats-2011/]Stanford”>Stanford and Duke Accepted How Many? Colleges Report 2011 Admission Figures - The New York Times)
The class of 2015 profile has a different number 3,539.
<a href=“https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/apply/classprofile.shtml[/url]”>https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/apply/classprofile.shtml</a></p>
<p>I guess the difference should be the number from the wait-list.</p>
<p>Feels like a second chance, nevertheless. If they actually admitted >2000 students for a class of 1400, I very highly doubt there’ll be 600 who’ll turn down the offer. I hope all Chic admits get into all Ivies to facilitate that better, though :P</p>