<p>Everyone, cheer up.
We can’t change our test scores, we can’t change our GPA that was submitted, we can’t change the common app essay we wrote.
At this moment, it’s all in the hands of the admissions committee, and given our best shots, if they can’t take them, at least someone else out there will.</p>
<p>I’ve definitely been heavily disappointed by my waitlist, but what can I do?
Granted, my test scores were low, but I think kudos to everyone who even decided to go ahead and submit an application. Very cool of y’all. </p>
<p>We have a lot of ivy-league decisions to look forward to in April/end of March, so let’s just have hope everyone.
And if you accepted a spot on the waitlist, we have a second chance at least. </p>
<p>Waitlisted with pretty solid scores (2320, 34), perfect GPA, 600+ hours of community service, music, debate, a few sports, etc. Visited, interviewed on campus and at home, applied for the Danforth Scholarship, so I feel like I demonstrated plenty of interest.</p>
<p>I feel rather yucky, especially given the people that I know who are there now - smart, for sure, but not geniuses and - I hate to say it, but I don’t know how else to put it - not as qualified as me.</p>
<p>Waitlisted. Probably a bit underqualified than overqualified. then again…taking a look at all those who were accepted really makes me wonder why every single one of them had incomes over 100k…whether that was just a mere coincidence …</p>
<p>So, I thought my stats were on par with WashU- 35 ACT, Valedictorian (4.0), Captain and state qualifier in swimming, music, other academic clubs, leadership positions…AND I visited over the summer, despite being a few states away… does anyone have any thoughts on why I was waitlisted? Any hope for me being “overqualified” and the Yale decision will come back better? haha (Yes, I did apply to Yale, but believe it or not, WashU was WAY higher on the list…guess that’s not happening.)</p>
<p>waitlisted, too.
i wonder if i should “accept a place on the waitlist”?
if i choose yes, does it mean that i cannot accept the waitlist place of any other of my RD school?</p>
<p>@takashisaito From your name it looks like you are Asian. It is unfortunate but true that you are competing for less that 20% of the seats. There are plenty of Asians with your credentials and hence it becomes a crapshoot and luck plays a great part. I am sure you will get into one of the very good schools and will do well. So it is not WashU…</p>
<p>With close to 30,000 applicants with stellar scores and gpa, they certainly cannot accept everyone. They are building a community with diversity. No one should feel bad because you will end up someplace special, a place where the admissions think you best fit. If they selected students based on a set formula it would be quite a boring campus. They look at you holistically and make their best guess as to what is going to make up their next sucessful community.</p>
<p>Waitlisted… It frustrates me because I don’t know whether I should be happy because at least I got waitlisted or sad because I didn’t get in…
I am still a little bit confused with the term “waitlisted”: what does it mean to be a waitlisted student? Does that mean that you are nowhere near their standards?..
Although I applied to other great schools too, WUSTL was one top choice… urgh… I guess I should just move on…</p>
<p>@BungalowDillon There’s an essay on the common app, did you feel that didn’t capture your uniqueness?</p>
<p>@bangara02 Waitlisted means you likely were a match academically, but they weren’t able to fit you into the accepted class. In all likelihood it means you’re very qualified, probably had stats that were a match, but just weren’t lucky enough to be the 1 out of 5 that can actually be offered a spot. Its pretty much a rejection, but it doesn’t say much about you beyond that you weren’t quite what they were looking for when they read your app.</p>
<p>Thanks DJEureka, so… there is absolutely nothing I can do to boost up my chances to get off from the waitlist? I wonder if writing an additional essay would help…</p>
<p>Theoretically you could write them a letter of intent, along the lines of “I would go if I got in”, which might move you up in their eyes if they turn to the waitlist. Still, its probably 100 or so max who get off the waitlist. My year they didn’t even use it.</p>
<p>Well, I feel a little bit better now that I realize a lot of qualified people were waitlisted. Wash U has never been my top choice, but I was still crushed by this decision - mostly because a big rival of mine got accepted and is also a finalist for a couple of merit scholarships I’d also applied for (grrrrr…). </p>
<p>I’m still surprised though - 3.65 GPA (unweighted with 4 APs - actually every class I’ve ever taken has been either honors or AP because my school offers nothing else), 33 ACT, fantastic recommendations, wide array of ECs, 9 out of 81 class rank. And I’ve had multiple conversations with the director of admissions! So frustrating…</p>
<p>Whatever, not gonna bother accepting my place on the list. I think I’m going to University of Pittsburgh anyway - already in with a merit scholarship and I’m eligible for their Honors College. Sounds much more appealing at the moment…</p>
<p>But I wish much luck to anyone here who does accept their spot and does want to attend - I hope you get the chance! :)</p>
<p>not trying to defend or put down any theories, but, though wash U doesn’t release as many statistics as some other schools, it seems pretty clear to me that a rather large portion of each class is made up of ED students (so, obviously interested)…this just means that wash U really has to be careful of who they accept and waitlist because of the limited number of spots left
this could mean that they waitlist “over-qualified” students because they want to accept people who will go there, so that they don’t over- or under-accept, or that they waitlist people who don’t demonstrate interest, and those for the most part happen to be “over-qualified”
either way, because they take so many ED students, choosing the accepted RD students is definitely a complicated process</p>
<p>(just a–perhaps biased–note: i don’t really think that a student can truly be “over-qualified” for wash U; i know plenty of students who chose washU despite being accepted to schools like princeton and chicago, so that might support the demonstrated interest theory, which gives all the waitlisted students a lesson–start/keep showing interest in washU if you really want to get off of the waitlist)</p>
<p>Now I do not understand anything, because I thought that I was qualified for WUSTL. If I did not get accepted to WUSTL, then I have no chances with other top schools, like Ivies, MIT and Stanford. I thought that my awards and ECs were good enough… The 1st prize on the International Astronomy Olympiad and the former member of the National Junior Table tennis Team and lots of other awards… What did I do wrong?</p>
<p>You people need to move on with your lives. Stop questioning why they wait listed you. And don’t have a sob story saying you’re not going to get in anywhere else, because you know you will and you’re just trying to get attention. Plenty of cases have shown that one wait list/rejection does not correlate to others. You really thought you would get admitted to every college you applied to? Come on.</p>
Very cool of y’all. </p>