<p>Today I received my decision, or rather lack of thereof: waitlisted. I now have several questions, and would greatly appreciate any answers.</p>
<p>1)What are the chances one has of being accepted from the waitlist?
2)Is there anything one can do to increase their odds, aside from contacting the admissions office?
3)If one does get accepted, does the later admittance negatively affect the financial aid and housing one would receive?</p>
<p>And perhaps the most important question...
4)Am I better off committing to my back up? Syracuse was my top choice; But the fact that one has to wait until June to receive some sort of decision kills it.</p>
<p>I’m currently in my first semester at SU and was in the exact position you are. I was wait listed so I wasn’t sure what to do at that point. To answer your first question that stats are that roughly around 25% of students are accepted of the wait list. I didn’t do anything to try and increase my chances and I’m not sure there really is anything. You could try sending emails just to show that you’re still interested in attending. For me the housing nor the
Financial aid was affected by my late acceptance. They have enough housing and financial aid from the students that decide not to attend. I chose to commit to another school just incase I wasn’t accepted off the waiting list and you should too. Once I got accepted I just pulled out form the other school. Although when I received my admissions offer I was told that there was no room left for me in the fall class but said they would still like for me to attend so if I wanted to I could instead start in the spring so I accepted their offer even though I would be starting school a semester late. That type of decision seems to happen often so that is another possible outcome. I hope I answered your questions.</p>
<p>I’m waitlisted/spring deferred as well. I emailed the admissions office and asked whether the waiting list was ranked and chances of being admitted. I also asked about housing and financial aid available if I accepted to defer to spring. This was their (vague) response:</p>
<p>“Thank you for your email. The waitlist is not ranked. Rather, we re-review your application if space become available. Therefore I am unable to tell you the likelihood of fall admission. If you defer to the spring, you will have the same opportunities as a student enrolled in the fall, and be required to live on campus for your first two years. Your financial aid package would be sent a few business days after an admission notification.”</p>
<p>I think everyone gets a financial aid package, judging from this response. And I’m still not quite sure how they’re waitlist is reviewed lol. But here you go!</p>
<p>For everyone who was waitlisted for fall/ admitted for spring… I called the financial aid office and they told me that we would recieve our financial aid packages for spring semester sometime around April 19th.</p>
<p>@orange white, I did receive a pretty good financial aid package. They usually have money left for aid since a lot of students that are offered admissions decide not to go</p>
<p>@Mysticalkites sorry guys my D committed to Uof Florida but good luck to all on waitlist best wishes I guess my D is going to have to deal with that awful Florida weather too bad lol</p>
<p>Last year, I believe my D (waitlisted - BArch) didn’t get her FA until almost 2 weeks later. We were getting worried and they told my D not to worry when she called them. They said to just keep checking MySlice and mail for the hard copy.</p>
<p>I believe the staff at SU is in a tailspin around this time especially when they have to go through a whole new admittance process of waitlisted students. They probably need to carefully look at what FA offerings have come back from those who chose not to attend SU and then have to review financials of those who will accept from the waitlists. </p>
<p>Even though my D waited a while SU came back with generous FA. The next thing was housing notification took a long while. I’m thinking in late June or July. She actually wound up with a single room.</p>
<p>Each year could be different but if it seems like it’s taking long don’t worry.</p>