<p>So I just opened my application and you guessed it, I'm on a waitlist. Part of the letter, verbatim: </p>
<p>"At this time, we do not know if we will be able to use the waiting list; therefore, it is difficult to predict your ultimate chances for admission. I would appreciate hearing from you, as soon as possible, about your college plans. Please visit our Waiting List Reply Form for more information and to reply to our offer of a place on the waiting list. We will work to reach a final decision on your candidacy as soon after May 1st as possible." </p>
<p>Of my other three schools, I was accepted to two safeties, the first of which I'm very keen on: Gordon College in MA and Messiah College in PA. My fourth school, Colby, also waitlisted me. I don't think I'm going to request to remain on its list; I had minimal interest in it to begin with. </p>
<p>I would really like to go to Dartmouth, but I don't know if Gordon will let me enroll if I wait to turn in my deposit until after May 1st. What are the chances of my being accepted to the college via waitlist? Is is worth waiting on tenterhooks for? Do I have much of a chance of getting through the process, or are very few on the waitlist ever accepted?</p>
<p>It says less than 10% of applicants are waitlisted; I think that means they waitlist ~2000 people, and ~1000 accept their spot on the waitlist. The number of people who get accepted off the waitlist depends on Dartmouth’s yield this year. When the yield is low, maybe 40 people will get off; when the yield is high, nobody gets off. So it’s not something to count on.</p>
<p>As a fellow waitlistee, I sympathize with you. :/</p>
<p>I got waitlisted too, but just treating it as a polite rejection. time to finalize my choices and move on. waiting for decisions in general is agonizing.</p>
<p>I’m waitlisted too. One of my friends was waitlisted last year, and she didn’t make it off the list until August (accepted). I really hope I don’t have to wait that long hahah</p>
<p>(from a new college counselor); one of my students got waitlisted as well; dartmouth’s her first choice; I will advise her to go ahead and pay deposit for her second choice behind dartmouth
what are chances of getting in, getting off of waitlist; what’s the earliest students can find out; should student submit additional materials;</p>
<p>You should send in a deposit to your next favorite school and go on the waitlists. Make plans to go to the deposit school, don’t expect anything from the waitlists, but keep your options open. It is normal and not unethical to deposit at a school where you have been accepted while remaining on the waitlist elsewhere.</p>
<p>If I were you I would not reject the idea of Colby’s waitlist so quickly. There is a huge gap between Gordon and D, although if you like Gordon a lot that is of course a good thing.</p>
<p>My son went wait list at Dartmouth back in 2009. He was called around May 5 with an invite to the class of 2013. Just thought I would let all of you “waiting” there is hope. BTW, he did not take up big D on the offer since he had already committed himself to the honors program at Notre Dame.</p>
<p>Flash forward two year and my Daughter is on the Dartmouth wait list and is accepted at…Notre Dame. Deja vu.</p>
<p>I’m a waitlistee also. My interviewer was willing to go through the effort to get me off the waitlist if I wanted to go, but I declined the offer.</p>
<p>yeah i’m deciding between dartmouth and penn but i was the only non legacy/athlete at my school to get into an ivy. this year was brutal, applications to top schools jumped by 15% or some absurd number.</p>
<p>Waitlisted at Dartmouth (as well as at Harvard, Columbia and Tufts). Rejected everywhere else. There go my Ivy dreams. Oh well, at least I know I tried my best. :)</p>
<p>Man, I’m getting more and more depressed about this…</p>
<p>I heard that colleges use the waitlist to fill ‘gaps’ in their matriculating class; does being a part of the most common demographic at Dartmouth mean I have no chance of getting in now?</p>
<p>Cannot say. Demographics can mean many things. The obivous are race/ethnicity and gender. But it can also be where you are from and what your interests are and what you offer. If they need more humanity-inclined people from the Southeast, then that person might have an edge.</p>
<p>The main thing is you have to make plans elsewhere and then put Dartmouth out of your mind. You may or may not have a pleasant surprise from Dartmouth but you cannot sitting around waiting for it to happen.</p>