<p>anony,ous,will u stay on harvards waitlist?</p>
<p>Accepted: Harvard, Dartmouth, Penn
Waitlisted: Princeton
Rejected: Yale</p>
<p>looking at these just goes to show that college admissions is a crapshoot…</p>
<p>acceptances: dartmouth, penn, columbia
waitlisted: harvard
rejections: brown, yale, princeton</p>
<p>i hadn’t notice this, but a very even spread- three acceptances, one waitlist, and three rejections!</p>
<p>and oh yes, i applied to seven of eight. for me, it was to increase my chances of getting into one… though when all was said and done, i would have gone to uchicago if columbia hadn’t come through!</p>
<p>Looking back, I should’ve applied to all eight instead of just the two I really liked. lol</p>
<p>to 1991- not sure if I will go on Harvard’s waiting list- I have no intentions of going but I might do it out of curiosity.</p>
<p>If its just curiosity dont i beg u!i only got waitlisted in 2 schools so its my only hope going to college in the us or else i am stack in my country…</p>
<p>is it me, or does it seem like there aren’t many yale waitlistees?</p>
<p>^ Depends on what you mean by “many” - there are exactly 759.</p>
<p>^Correction: 769</p>
<h2>Anonymous91 & others with similar intentions: “to 1991- not sure if I will go on Harvard’s waiting list- ** I have no intentions of going but I might do it out of curiosity **.”</h2>
<p>Hey, I am on Harvard waitlist so naturally, you have full right not to take my response seriously, because as a brilliant Amherst student [congratulations on that!] you can surely figure out by simple math that the less people on the waitlist = the better for me.</p>
<p>However, I couldn’t help myself. I would never dare to be such a b*** and try to convince people who actually Want to go to Harvard to give up the waitlist place, but if you have NO intention of going…what the heck?</p>
<p>I personally got waitlisted for one more good school. Didn’t really plan on going in the first place, so I gave up my place and perhaps made one student whose dreams depend on the school happy in the long-run. </p>
<p>Sure, college admissions are every-man-for-himself fight, and if there is just 1% chance in the back of your head that you want to attend…forget everyone else & fight! However, if you want to waste admission officers’ time & make another hopeful kid across the country lose hope until…what time will it be by the time they replace a waitlist pick with another…mid June?..and All that JUST FOR THE PRESTIGE of dropping the H-bomb…I think for a person with your intellectual abilities, that’s way bellow your dignity. You’ve got the college of your dreams already, now give others the chance.</p>
<p>but then you can say you got into havahd</p>
<p>And again I’m asking…that’s all?</p>
<p>If you actually liked Harvard enough to go or consider going [if you in the end decide your fin aid wont be enough or something like that, that’s a different matter], then of course, you should be proud to say you got into Harvard.</p>
<p>If you don’t want to go…what is this ostentation about? Can you write it on your resume? I doubt so. Will it thus serve any practical purpose in your life? I doubt that too, unless you consider boning a chick who’ll be sooooo impressed by that one of them. Who are you seeking to impress? Others who could not get in? Or yourself? Do you really need the admission committee to officially appraise you as a human being?</p>
<p>I am sorry, but I find that pathetic. I want to get in because I fell in love with the resources, opportunities, all the things that I read… Sure, the name is a part of it…but you’re telling me that should be the only reason for me to block other people’s places? Never. I don’t need a letter & few forms and fliers to tell me what my intellect is worth. And yes, feel free to tell me to shut up, but I think neither should anyone or you.</p>
<p>accepted to every single school i applied to</p>
<p>minus every single ivy that i applied to - 6 straight rejections after such a nice run</p>
<p>sigh</p>
<p>i didnt have any expectations, only hopes and dreams</p>
<p>man, did that hurt my ego! not even waitlisted…</p>
<p>rejected: harvard, yale, princeton, columbia, penn, brown
accepted: williams, swarthmore, northwestern, uc berkeley, ucla, ucsd, usc, penn state
waitlisted: rice - my essays for this app really sucked though</p>
<p>guess im just not cut out for the ivy league?
but i am acually very thrilled with where i got in - YAY WILLIAMS!!!</p>
<p>so i def kinda contradicted myself there - oops!</p>
<p>Accepted: Columbia, Dartmouth
Waitlisted:Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown</p>
<p>yeah, please do not accept a place on the wait list if you have no intention of going there!!
I’m WL at Princeton, and I feel so fortunate. I know I have a small chance, but if that chance is even smaller because ****heads accepted to Harvard and Yale or other Ivies are accepting a spot just so they can gloat… then that glimmer of hope is gone, and I can only dream of studying in the United States.</p>
<p>I was rejected from my #1 choice (MIT), where I dumped hours and hours into the app, but accepted to harvard (I didn’t even consider that I would get in there o.O, my app was horrible). </p>
<p>College apps are weird.</p>
<p>I already gave up my Brown and Princeton spots but I looove Yale.</p>
<p>im agreeing with LadyChance on this one. While harvard is not my number one school (WL at Penn also), I am definitely committed to going to Cambridge if i get off the waitlist. Its becuase of ppl who got into their first choice schools and didnt even withdraw their other apps that I ended up on the waitlist for Penn and i dont want the same “stick it out for no reason” phenomenon to hurt my chances at Harvard and Penn again.</p>
<p>Someone staying on the waitlist that does not take an offer of admission if they get accepted does not hurt any other waitlistees chance- if they do not accept an offer off of the waitlist the school moves on to the other waitlist candidates - they will go to whatever number fills the class. It only changes your chance if they accept. However, I think people that stay on the waitlist and claim that they won’t go if they get accepted are only trying to protect their emotions from yet another rejection.</p>