<p>Any idea how many were waitlisted?</p>
<p>Get in touch with the admissions office and ask them; there are also (somewhere--sorry I don't remember what thread or how to find) records of how many were waitlisted over the last few years and how many were admitted off the waitlist. It varies from year to year, but people do get in. Good luck.</p>
<p>Usually the number of applicants waitlisted and the number taken off the waitlist are reported on the Common Data Set. Unfortunately, Davidson seems to have left those questions blank.</p>
<p>My son (who is a freshman at Davidson) was waitlisted last year to get in and found out in late May that they would take him from the waitlist and he was admitted. I know it is a LONG time until late May, but don't give up!
Email me if you want for info.</p>
<p>Good Luck!</p>
<p>But do remember that while you are waiting to hear about waitlist movement, you must accept an offer from another school in case you do not get in off the waitlist. Then if/when you do get into Davidson off the waitlist and if you still wish to attend, you need tdo notify the other school right away that you are nto going to be coming after all.</p>
<p>Mattmom: My daughter was waitlisted and will certainly put a deposit down elsewhere; however, my questions is this: when and if they call to admit someone from the waitlist, will they tell you the financial package at that time or do you have to wait another week or two for that? We could not accept an admit without knowing that info...</p>
<p>I'm sorry, I don't know the answer to that but I would think if you do get a call from the admissions office saying that a spot has opened up, it is the kind of question you can ask directly. (Or if notification came by mail would suggest calling and asking, but in my experience they call because time is a factor.)</p>
<p>My friend who had 4.0 w and 4.4 unweighted. 2140 SAT</p>
<p>Best EC's imaginable </p>
<p>and got waitlisted. I didn't realize DC was that tough to get into</p>
<p>vzu15, my D had similar stats, with even higher test score (ACT 34=around 2250 SAT, I think). She is also waitlisted. We DID know Davidson is that hard to get into! It is an excellent school that very carefully selects its class to have a particular balance --- so some may be waitlisted or even rejected not because they aren't good candidates, but because of this balancing act. It is very tough to take for those who don't get accepted, but it's a fact of life when applying to very selective schools. The good thing for those waitlisted, though, is that DC's waitlist brochure indicates 10% of the class the past two years came from the waitlist. I think that bodes well for those who still really, really want to go to DC --- and they should make sure to send info that will help the admissions officers remember them when it's time to select people from the waitlist! It's time to do some personal marketing. I don't know how many were waitlisted, by I know there will be a number who don't accept a place on the list. My D is one, because she had already narrowed her choices to a couple other schools. Best of luck.</p>
<p>Is everyone getting waitlisted this year? My friend had similar SAT's and really good EC's, 4.6 GPA, valedictorian, 10 billion hours of community service, blahblahblah, and got waitlisted. I was shocked. That gives me no hope for the Ivies/Duke this week!</p>
<p>I was really happy to be waitlisted. My friend who was doing the peer recommendation forgot to do it, and I got emails telling me this... he kept promising, but I know he never sent it in. I figured that Davidson wouldn't even read my file since it wasn't complete (and I know they are concerned about choosing commited students), I didn't even get information about checking online. And then I opened the envelope and saw I was on the waitlist... which wasn't what I was expecting.</p>
<p>My D was waitlisted and she spent a ton of time on the Davidson app and has so many things going for her but it looks like everyone does. How many are on the list?? My understanding is that they only want extra academic information and not any other awards?? Does anyone know how good the theatre dept. is there?</p>
<p>If you are accepted off the waitlist they will tell you their package at that time.</p>
<p>Did anyone call to see if they would say how many are on the waitlist?</p>
<p>The afforementioned student got into harvard, ucla, UCSD but didn't get into davidson</p>
<p>College admissions is a pretty skewed process. I got into Yale, Amherst, Davidson, and Rice, and was waitlisted at Harvard and Wash U (arggg Wash U, you waitlisted me two weeks before the Ivy decisions, you know how self-conscious I became?!?), so nobody give up hope on anything. I'll be turning down Davidson, though I visited and it is an amazing school, so there is hopefully one spot for a waitlister :-]</p>
<p>It's interesting that you got into Yale & were waitlisted at Harvard, musicnut. It so often seems to be the other way around. Your case definitely shows how random admissions seems to be ... such great schools said yes, but others said "wait." </p>
<p>My D was accepted at Vanderbilt & Tufts after being waitlisted at Davidson, so at least her confidence level went back up.</p>
<p>Of course it's random. It's only the consuming public that buys the notion that it's objective. Once you've qualified, covered the basic bases ... courses, grades, tests, etc. ... and nearly all have in the candidate pools noted here, including Davidson's, then it's a crap shoot. Sadly, way too many buy into the notion that it's personal when it's not. </p>
<p>One admission counselor at one of THE most elite places, who'd read 6 or 8k essays per season, said after the first few hundred, all written by potential Rhodes Scholars or Wall Street gurus who'd had lunch with the Dahli Llama over spring break or wound up Big Ben or ... something of monumental note, unless the writer made him laff, they got zapped from his pile. </p>
<p>So for those who are only spectacularly good rather than the Next Coming, well, it can be a crap shoot, pretty much.</p>
<p>Only the recipient or rejected deems it personal and a consummate measure of one's self-worth. For both it's neither.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if Davidson is going to the waitlist? I have heard from admissions that some ears they do (took around 20 ) and some years they do not .</p>
<p>I read somewhere that last year about 10% of the class came from the waitlist. I'm not sure about this year though. My D just received a letter (regarding a scholarship) which included the following statement: "And in being admitted to Davidson College as a member of the Class of 2011, you were chosen from among the strongest applicant pool in the College's history. Less than a ninth of over 4,000 applicants will be enrolling in next year's entering class."</p>