<p>Did anyone else here get waitlisted from UROP? I received my waitlist email today and was bummed out...</p>
<p>Here's what the email said:</p>
<p>"Dear stack0verflow,</p>
<p>Thank you for applying to the 2014-2015 Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program. Based on a review of your application, you are currently on the waitlist to participate in this year's program. We received nearly 1,600 freshman applications by the priority deadline this year and simply do not have the program capacity or research positions to be able to offer admission to everyone that applies. </p>
<p>Please do not call the UROP office asking when you will hear if you have been taken off the waitlist. Based on the number of applications received we will likely be taking very few students off the waitlist this year. We will contact you if and when we can accept you into the program; this can occur any time between now and the first few weeks of the fall semester. Please also remember that UROP is open to both freshman and sophomores, so I encourage you to apply to the program again next year if you are still interested. </p>
<p>Again, thank you for your interest in the program and best of luck this coming fall."</p>
<p>There may be some students declining their offer. In order to do UROP you have to take a class on Tuesday and Thursday which is at the same time as one of four honors core classes (which are new this year). My son was accepted to UROP but wants to decline because he wanted to take that core class. At orientation they said about one third of honors students do UROP so the conflict seemed odd to me. But more than expected may decline. Good luck!</p>
<p>I’m in the same boat as you. I am so bummed out! I have been anxiously waiting to hear back the last few weeks. I’ve heard that usually nearly everyone who applies gets in, so I was quite shocked to be waitlisted. I wonder what caused a large surge in applications.</p>
<p>If you write to a few professors you would be very interested in doing research for, you are likely to get an opportunity. You absolutely don’t need to go through UROP to do research. Other students can tell their own experience with this approach.</p>
<p>My son got into UROP and has no interest in med school so it isn’t pre med resume padding for him. He wants to do research. He will likely make a career out of doing research so UROP is a great fit for him. </p>