<p>So I was waitlisted at my top 3 school choices. Hurts and stings but maybe some success stories will instill in me some hope! If you know anyone who got off them please post and what they did to get off. Thanks!</p>
<p>One poster at Claremont McKenna didn’t do anything at all and got off the WL.</p>
<p>I was in the waitlist of Emory.
This is actually my last hope.
Emory will admit about 0~100 in WL.
I’ve applied the Oxford College…but I still want to be on the waitlist, and I really want to go to the main campus!
Some people say that waitlist=rejection!!??
All those things seem really wierd…
Is it possible to be admitted from waitlist in May?</p>
<p>I had a friend who was waitlisted by a TOP30 (UMich? Sorry, I forgot…)
He was admitted right after the day he decided to go to Rochester.
He actually didn’t care much about the waitlist, but he was still admitted, at the last second!!</p>
<p>I have a waitlist story from 27 years ago.</p>
<p>I was living in Washington DC and was waitlisted at my first choice for law school there. My second choice, to which I was admitted, was in California. A week before the California school’s semester was to begin, I decided that I had to start the long drive West to find a place to live and get ready to start, so I packed everything I had into my VW and began driving. No cell phones back then, so all I could do was leave my DC roommate’s number with my waitlist school so they could let him know if I got off the waitlist.</p>
<p>After two very long days of driving, I checked into a motel in Des Moines, Iowa, called my roommate and learned that I had been admitted at school #1 about 14 hours of driving earlier. The next morning, I turned around and headed back to DC, enrolled at school #1 and was glad I did.</p>
<p>That was a good ending for me. My advice is to hang in there as long as you can. Schools will often have late no-shows, so you have to be ready to change plans and move if you really want that school that waitlisted you. </p>
<p>Good luck.</p>