<p>Your response really makes me happy. My daughter received a similar e-mail two days ago and we were elated but cautious. She has not received a definite but your post makes me optimistic. </p>
<p>On a side note…she also applied to the University of Southern California for a script writing program and she received a letter telling her they placed her in a Trojan Transfer program for next year. This programs seems to be only for legacies but no one in the family has attended USC!!! This sounded to me more like wait=listed but USC does not have a waitlist so…</p>
<p>I was placed on a waitlist for the main campus of the University of Connecticut. They give each applicant a student ID so I was able to check my app status online. They told me I would not know their decision until late May, but I heard back from them pretty early (May 8th). After being taken off the waitlist, they said that I would be able to go to the main campus upon completing a summer program. However, they also said that nothing was official until I received a letter in the mail from them. When I went back to send my deposit, they had informed me that I would be going to my second choice commuter campus (there are five campuses throughout the state with no dorms) in the fall. I decided to go with it because the tuition there is at least half of what I would be paying for the main campus and I would still end up there anyway because of the major I had chosen. I finally received the letter almost a week ago and they said I had two weeks from the day the letter arrived to make my decision.</p>
<p>Last year (2012) neighbor was offered a very late admission to Univ of Michigan in applied art / design (a competitive major). She was notified a few days prior to the start of school, around the 3rd week in August.</p>
<p>I was waitlished at Mount Holyoke College and got off the waitlist a few weeks ago. Some others have been taken off the list, but I’m not sure the number. I was given one week to make a decision.</p>
<p>My daughter was accepted off the waiting list at Cornell University on May 8. The college called her cellphone (but she was in an AP test and no cellphones allowed.). They emailed her and emailed us (the parents.) They called the house- all within a 2 hour period. They wanted her to talk to her by close of business that day. She called back after she got out of the test and got the good news. She accepted the offer over the phone (and it seemed they wanted an immediate answer) and they said the official letter would be coming as well as any financial aid offer and then she had 5 days after the seeing the F/A offer to send in the SIR with the deposit.
I believe what got her to the top of the waitlist was this:
After she was wait listed, we went to visit the college during Spring Break. We did the college of engineering tour and admission session. We got lucky because between the info session and tour, we approached the Admissions Director, who had given the presentation, and had come down from the stage and was walking away, and asked what D could do to get accepted off the waiting list. She introduced herself to him. So the Admissions Office got to meet her in person, if only for three minutes. We made it clear that we were visiting from out-of-state and had come all that way to be there. We honestly didn’t think there was much we could do. But the Admissions director told us there was something she could do and that was to be a “squeaky wheel”. she had to email the college every week with an update of how she was doing. She asked for his email instead, and he gave it to her. And she said she would email him every week. He looked annoyed, so he said there was no guarantee that anyone would read the emails, but they would be printed out and put in her file. Her first emails where the thank you for talking to me and do you remember me emails. My daughter also sent in two additional recommendations from teachers as attachments in separate emails. One week, She wrote about her performance in a drama production she was in and got a personal reply from the AO. She did this every week between April 1 and May 1. After the May 1 deadline, she sent emails asking when they would make a decision on the waitlist and got a reply. In short, she made sure they knew she was still interested in attending there. And on May 8th, the School of Engineering offered her one of the 20 spots from a waitlist of 500.</p>
<p>I was waitlisted at UCLA College of Letters and Science. I accepted a spot on their waitlist and had the option of updating them with my senior year first semester grades, and even 3rd quarter grades. There was also a space to include an “optional” statement where I articulated why UCLA was a great fit for me and what programs I was especially interested in there. I was accepted off the wait list sometime in the first week of May. UCLA sent me an email notifying me to check my online portal for the final decision. They give 3 days to accept the offer and submit SIR, which I did.</p>
<p>I’d love to know how many of the successful waitlist announcements and contacts were made to the … GCs instead to the student directly, as some would like us to believe. :)</p>
<ol>
<li>Yes and no.</li>
<li>I got off the waitlist at Syracuse and I’m going there. George Washington never got back to me.</li>
<li>May 1 lolol</li>
<li>Call, then email</li>
<li>10 days.</li>
<li>Yes!!!</li>
<li>I didn’t do anything…</li>
</ol>
<p>One of my friends got deferred from UofC. That friend has two siblings who either go to Chicago currently or graduated. I told her to email the regional admissions counselor because Chicago was her first choice. I’m not sure if she did or not. Anyways, she got waitlisted during RD. After that, I think she sent in a letter to her admissions counselor (who said she would put that in her file) and had her siblings send letters. I think she ended up not accepting her spot on the waitlist and said she would just stick with a school she did get accepted to. Overall, I don’t think her stats were as good as her siblings and as we all know, this was a very competitive year. I feel sadly for her since she wanted to go to this school badly. Oh well.</p>
<p>Sally - My S was on the wait list for 2 schools (Newhouse at SU, and NYU Tisch). On May 2 he received a phone call from Syracuse accepting him. He was given a FA package 2 days later and had a week to decide. Unfortunately, what they offered in aid did not come close to what he was offered at BU, so he declined Syracuse. He is still on the wait list for NYU. He received an “interest email” from NYU end of May which he responded favorably to, and has yet to receive an offer of acceptance. Crazy time for sure.</p>
<p>jjcatena–It really is a crazy time … and crazy process. If your son is still interested in NYU, he should rattle their cage once again with a phone call to his regional rep (or, better yet, have the guidance counselor do it). However, NYU isn’t exactly famous for great aid. So chances are, even if your son is admitted off the waitlist at this late date, he won’t get the $$$ you need.</p>