<p>Hi everyone! I accepted a place on the waitlist and I was wondering how exactly the process will work. Will Princeton tell me on May 1st that it's a no? Will they email me or mail a letter to me to notify me? What exactly can I expect over the next few weeks?
Thanks!</p>
<p>I believe that admissions starts contacting people on the waitlist mid-May. They call mostly, but I bet they use email or any method they can to get ahold of waitlistees that have been offered a spot.</p>
<p>They give the accepted waitlistee a certain amount of time to decide to accept.</p>
<p>This process continues in waves until they fill all the spots. I would guess that could go on until June or July.</p>
<p>I have heard that May and June is a good time for people on the WL to send in a second letter stressing interest and listing recent accomplishments.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>"Will Princeton tell me on May 1st that it’s a no? "</p>
<p>Nope. You won’t hear anything unless </p>
<p>1) enough spots open up and you’re picked – given an admissions spot (yippee, right?). This can happen as late as August.</p>
<p>2) it becomes apparent that either no WL spots open or the few that do, are offered to others. At some point, Princeton may decide to inform everyone that the WL is effectively closed. This could happen before August but definitely by September.</p>
<p>Next week, after all the acceptances have been tabulated, Princeton will make a decision as to whether it will go to the waitlist. If it does, there is really no way to predict how decisions will be made–it could be in one wave, it could be a trickle, it could be a few students next week, then a few the week later etc. However, T26E4 is incorrect in his/her dates–by June 30th, Princeton will have made all its decisions and closed the waitlist.</p>