<p>If I call admissions, will they let me why I was waitlisted?</p>
<p>I don’t believe so- I’ve definitely never heard of anyone obtaining a straightforward answer for why they weren’t accepted at any school.</p>
<p>What are the chances of getting off the waitlist?</p>
<p>from last year’s common data set:</p>
<p>Number of qualified applicants offered a place on waiting list 4,790
Number accepting a place on the waiting list 2,216
Number of wait-listed students admitted 167</p>
<p>Marie 24 - I can’t find the statistics you mention on the common data set that shows about 1/2 of wait list is offered admission. I looked at the data set on the website here but item C2 on waiting list was blank.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.northeastern.edu/oir/pdfs/CDS%202010-11.pdf[/url]”>http://www.northeastern.edu/oir/pdfs/CDS%202010-11.pdf</a></p>
<p>Can you post a link or help me find the original source data.</p>
<p>This would be greatly welcomed as a ray of hope for my kid.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>caringdad–the info I posted was from 2009-2010 because as you saw 2010-11 wasn’t available. I just googled common data set northeastern</p>
<p>[Office</a> of University Planning and Research > Common Data Set](<a href=“http://www.northeastern.edu/oir/common.html]Office”>http://www.northeastern.edu/oir/common.html)</p>
<p>and what I posted indicates that only about 7.5% of students got off the waiting list, not 50%.</p>
<p>in 2008-09 it was almost 12% getting off the waitlist</p>
<p>sorry!</p>
<p>I’m sort of dejected about not getting in. Northeastern sent me letters congratulating me on my academic achievement and even waived my applicaton:(</p>