<p>if you were waitlisted and are ****ed holla at your boy</p>
<p>I was. Are you going to stay on it, do you think? I can't decide.</p>
<p>me too. i really just don't get it</p>
<p>Hey if you guys want lets compare stats. I'd like to see the kind of stats they waitlisted, if there's any trend or something. Ok:</p>
<p>GPA: 3.9 weighted, though I'm pretty sure they look at your core classes and calculate their own, so who knows.
SAT: 1300 (630m, 670v)
Rank: I think around 135 out of 515
AP Psychology: 5
AP US History: 3</p>
<p>ECs:
Philosophy Club-President
Film Club-President
Seminar Club
Model UN
Red Cross Volunteer</p>
<p>From what I have found last year 2871 students were offered the waitlist. 1324 accepted being waitlisted and 1214 of those eventually were accepted. That's 92% so if you really want BU and are waitlisted you should feel very confident that you will get in.</p>
<p>what do we do.. the national deadline for deposits is like may first and i dont know wether i deposit my cash in bu and my backup school or not, if any of you know please explain, i am trying to call the admissions office and its busy. although one of the people i talked to said it would be helpful to send them your 3rd quarter grades and a letter telling them how much you love them.</p>
<p>I am no expert but it appears that they way it works is you have to send your non-refundable deposit to a college you were accepted to before May 1. You will not hear back from any waitlist before that date as the schools can't tell who has or has not accepted until then. Then you have to see if BU (or any waitlist school), does take you from the waitlist. This will probably happen sometime in late May or early June as kids that accepted them get in on waitlists from other schools and the shuffle begines.</p>
<p>At that time you have a decision to make but if you choose a waitlist school you will lose your deposit at the other school. Deposits seem to run somewhere around $250-900. In the long run of 4 year tuition at a private school this is not a lot to lose and is the price you will pay if you really want to get into another school.</p>
<p>Ifrieden-- where did you get those stats from ?!?</p>
<p>I got them from College 411 (<a href="http://www.collegedata.com)%5B/url%5D">http://www.collegedata.com)</a>, where the list many stats under the admissions tab. </p>
<p>I don't know if they are correct or not but I also looked at other schools my daughter was applying to and checked those numbers at the schools websites if they had what is called a factbook and they seemed to be right on. Here are the other schools so you can see how high BU is in comparison</p>
<p>Chances to get in if students accepted waitlist</p>
<p>BU 92%
Brandeis 29%
Occidental 25%
NYU 28%
GW 23%
Vassar 9%
Barnard 7%</p>
<p>Good luck and if you want BU I would definately contact them probably by e-mail but a call wouldn't hurt and tell them that you are very interested and hope you are offered a spot.</p>
<p>A very large school like BU that has sometimes had to put students up in on campous 300. per night hotels because of howhard it is to estimate acceptances is known for putting a lot more on the list and taking a lot more from the waitlist since they may waitlist many students because of the concern for over booking the class. So with a 1300 SAT and your GPA I'd say your chances are good and agree that you should send a letter and call to let them know you would attend if accepted.
If the deposit issue is a hardship let them know and ask that you be on the front end of the notifications.</p>
<p>yea post your stats, if you want
mine are as follows,</p>
<p>SAT:1410 (800M)
GPA: 3.2 uw
APs: 4, 3s and 4s on tests.
Great ECs and Recs.</p>
<p>if BU is your true first choice, certainly let them know how disappointed you are and that you want to commit to going there if you are taken off the waitlist. When it comes to taking kids off the WL, adcoms do not want to fool around, and will taken those who are mos likely to come as this is at the very end of the admissions process.</p>
<p>I got waitlisted too, but I'm not surprised, because I applied to a CFA program, which has very competitive admissions.</p>
<p>SAT: 1470
GPA: 3.57 UW, 4.42 W
Unranked
8 APs total (5,5,5,4)
Related ECs</p>
<p>Whatever. I'm not that disappointed. I'm going to talk to my parents, but chances are that I won't stay on the waitlist. Good luck to all of you next year, wherever you decide to go! :)</p>
<p>For the students with above 1400---I really recommend you call and express interest. They may have seen where else you applied and thought you might not accept if offered admissions. You have nothing to lose by calling and letting them know you will attend if offered a spot. The waitlist at BU is such that you have an excellent chance...see previous comments about this...so odds are really high you'll get in ---and assume you may not have for the reasons I just specified. This happens at Tufts too and other schools where students may also be applying to Ivies so they want to know, other acceptances or not, that BU is your first choiuce.</p>
<p>Does anybody know if there is any chance of getting significant financial aid being admitted off waitlist? Or do most have to pay the full shot?</p>
<p>waitlisted...i applied to the school of management.</p>
<p>School of managment here too... i talked to an admissions counselor and she said that it is very important that you show interest. the best thing you can do is at least call them and tell them you want to go, i already wrote a letter and send newspaper articles and just totally released the hounds on those people.</p>
<p>would it be possible for people on the waitlist to be accepted before may 1st? i really don't want to put in a deposit at another school and not really know where i'm going when i graduate...</p>
<p>i honestly would have rather been rejected than waitlisted.</p>
<p>Waitlisted... That came as a surprise. Seriously expecting a rejection. Now it's hard because I don't know what to do. >.> Must talk to GC once break is over...</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<p>SAT: 1150
GPA: 3.4
rank: 94/303
6 AP and Honors classes
Also have job experience, as well as an average amount of sports/EC like fencing, etc.</p>
<p>Waitlisted</p>
<p>GPA: 3.6
SAT: 1110 (blah)
rank: 13%
Excellent recs and good grades from Harvard Classes
Many leadership roles, community serives, and in school activities</p>
<p>I applied to the CAS, but I thought for sure I would be put in CGS because I fit in their ranges</p>