<p>How do I apply for the waitlist?</p>
<p>Do most people get in?</p>
<p>You can’t apply for the waitlist. In your letter they will tell you if you’ve been waitlisted or not. Then you can either confirm you want a spot on the waitlist or tell them to take you off the waitlist and you’ll withdraw your application. It depends on how many accepted students choose to go to SCU, but usually most people end up not getting accepted from the wait list.</p>
<p>So do you accept it on the portal?</p>
<p>If not many people choose to go to SCU, is there a good chance I will be accepted from waitlist</p>
<p>http://**************.com/santa-clara-university/admissions/</p>
<p>SCU apparently places about 2,000 applicants on the wait list, half accept the wait list and only about 37 get in. </p>
<p>Good luck!!</p>
<p>does your portal change when you get your letter?</p>
<p>Not sure what that link is to… </p>
<p>And you don’t ask to be on the wait list… you are offered a place on it. </p>
<p>The below numbers are from Santa Clara’s most recent available common data set (2010-2011). Note: easily found for any school website when you search either the Common Data Set or Institutional research.</p>
<p>Students offered a place on the waiting list for Fall 2010 : 2140
Students Accepting a place on the waiting list: 990
Wait-List Students Admitted: 37.</p>
<p>I do research, but I don’t do math and even I can see, the odds aren’t in your favor. When they say admitted, however, this only tells you how many people actually came to the school. It does not say how many they asked. There are likely to be a few who stayed on the wait list and then when the admissions call came in (and gave them 24 hours max to make the decision), their heart is all of sudden invested in their other school. So… they ask someone else. Plus, there is no rhyme to the wait list; It is not ranked. And if you need money, and a lot of it, you’re not in a very good position to negotiate. You know?</p>