<p>How does the waitlist look for this year?</p>
<p>Your chances of getting off the waitlist are much, much smaller than your chances of getting accepted in the first place.</p>
<p>Your chance of getting in off the waitlist are about the same as a student (well a qualified one) getting into every ivy.</p>
<p>with all due respect, vikramcpo here was likely just asking if anyone knew information whether wash u has more space to accept people off the wait list. That answer, is no: no one knows that yet.</p>
<p>No one knows yet, but it’s also a) incredibly doubtful they’ll take anyone (even if they claim they might a month ago) b) even if they do, it’s even less likely to be accepted off of it. There’s no point in keeping hopes alive for a extremely remote chance if he is on the list. </p>
<p>My mention of your also applied to anyone in general, not specifically any one person. But your point is correct so I apologize if my tone was negative – just trying to be realistic.</p>
<p>One thing to keep in mind is that for some reason WashU’s yield rate is increasing. So even if the school accepted far fewer applicants than last year, they can still fill a whole class with the given matriculants. My best guess is that there will be no people getting off the waiting list this year.</p>
<p>On my high school’s Naviance site it shows:
11 students applied- two were admitted, 7 waitlisted, two denied.
I’m assuming that the number of waitlisted students at all high schools is much larger than the number of students that are admitted. Therefore a waitlist offer from WUST is even less hopeful than from other colleges. This is the only school where I notice that the waitlist number is greater than the admission number.</p>
<p>Has anyone else seen this trend at their high school?</p>
<p>Wash U waitlists a much higher percentage of students than other schools. Our school’s naviance shows, since 2002, only a couple rejections, about 2 acceptances a year, with the rest (a large number) being waitlisted. No other schools I have seen on naviance have nearly as many waitlisted. Luckily, my S was admitted and has accepted!</p>
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Funny, 'cause my school’s naviance shows that about 5+ students get accepted to WUSTL every year…more students from my school get accepted than waitlisted…it just must be because of your school, not WUSTL. This year we are going to have 4 students attend WUSTL. Last year we had 4-5 (one kid was accepted at WUSTL but then got off the waitlist at Princeton).</p>
<p>[Wait-list</a> wasteland: A letter to high schoolers in purgatory | Student Life](<a href=“http://www.studlife.com/forum/staff-editorials/2011/04/04/wait-list-wasteland-a-letter-to-high-schoolers-in-purgatory/]Wait-list”>Wait-list wasteland: A letter to high schoolers in purgatory - Student Life)</p>
<p>quote: “…Last year, the University over-admitted in terms of the regular admissions applicants, so there was no room for anyone from the wait-list. This year, it is much more likely that you will be admitted. You will not be compensated for emotional anguish experienced in the interim…”</p>
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<p>It’s different for every high school; it’s also a really small sample. Regardless, WashU does waitlist more students than other colleges do. This means a waitlisted kid has more competition, but each school takes a different number of kids off the waitlist from year to year, so it’s hard to say.</p>
<p>Yeah… all I wanted to do was to see if there was any early picture on how many people WashU may take off the waitlist if any. At my school 2 kids were admitted, 3 waitlisted, and 3 denied</p>