Waitlisted Question

Colleges and Universities A-Z Binghamton University - SUNY
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<p>I heard some people say they were waitlisted and offered admission for spring. My status checker said wait list and nothing more. What does that mean? And also, on the website it days 20/500 people were accepted after being on a waitlist last year, but there have to be more thatn 20 people who decided not to go to bing after their acceptance. It doesnt make sense to me.</p>

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<p>@browning1994: if the status checker says waitlist and nothing more, it means you’ve been put on the waiting list. You did not receive an offer of admission for the spring 2013. I’m in the same boat. The admissions office said they start to re-review applications on 5/2, once they know the number of spots they have available from people who were given offers but didn’t want their spot. the person in the admissions office couldn’t tell me by when they let you know if you’ve made it off the wait list, but I would assume it would have to be by around 7/1. I think we will be getting a letter in snail mail very soon offering us a place on the wait list, which we have to decide to either accept or reject. If we take the spot, we are saying we would probably go to Bing if we were chosen off the wait lit. I f we reject the spot, then we are done with Bing. As for 20 people being taken off the wait list last year, i read a different figure: 90. So 90 of the people who were offered admission didn’t accept, and that meant 90 people (probably a few more, because not everyone chosen off the wait list will decide to go to Bing even if offered admission) were taken off the wait list. Hope that helps.</p>

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<p>Thanks a lot. It kinda sucks that I have to pay my deposit for another school.</p>

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<p>Well, look at it this way: putting down a deposit isn’t so bad, because if you don’t get picked off the way list by Bing, you’ll have secured your spot at a different school. And if you do get picked off the wait list, well, yeah, you lose the deposit money, but now you’re going to Bing. My guidance counselor says, and it makes sense to me, that not putting down a deposit at another school is not an option, because if you don’t get picked off the wait list, you won’t have secured a spot anywhere! We will love wherever we end up, I’m sure of it. And there’s always the possibility of transferring.</p>

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<p>This is really misleading and not at all how it works. Let’s be real, here-- the incoming Binghamton class is about 2,500 students. Do you seriously think they ONLY accept 2,500 people and only NINETY pick another school? That’d basically be the highest yield rate in the country. About 28,000 people apply to Binghamton. 11,000ish of those are accepted. Of that 11,000 there are approximately 2,500 who accept the offer of admission. Doesn’t that make more sense?</p>

<p>Maybe I’m misreading what you’re both saying but it really doesn’t make sense at all.</p>

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<p>@rebeccar, sorry if I wasn’t clear. That’s what I meant-that 2500 of the people who are offered admission accept the offer. But I’m not sure how spots open up then. If they give out offers to so many people and enough people accept to fill up every spot. How do spots ever open up on the waiting list then?</p>

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<p>Im pretty sure that they only accept the exact amount. What if everybody accepts and there is an overflow?</p>

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<p>I found a page that does a great job explaining how the admissions process tends to work at most schools. </p>

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<p>To respond to the most recent poster wants to know what would happen if more students accept than they have room for, read the following.</p>

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<p>This continues on the page linked at the bottom of this post. </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.education.com/reference/article/make-decision-college-wait-list-work/[/url]”>Education.com | #1 Educational Site for Pre-K to 8th Grade;

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<p>sooo… i got the waitlisted letter. It says there is no room for me in SOM, but they will accept me into harpur. i wanted to major in management, but I dont know if economics is a good substitute. they also offered me the mba fast track program so i will ultimately get my mba from SOM anyway. but iwas wondering if after a year i could switch from economics to management major and get my bachelor’s and mba from SOM. after I get my bachelor’s degree i will have to apply to the graduate school and take the GMAT. but what if i dont get in?or am i guaranteed a spot?I don’t know if they would leave me hanging in the middle of a fast track program.</p>