<p>This thread is for those of us who were waitlisted and don't know whether to accept or refuse a spot on the waitlist. Does anyone know the answers to these questions?</p>
<p>1) What are our chances of getting off the waitlist? How many people were typically accepted in previous years?</p>
<p>2) If we are accepted off of it, are we still eligible for financial aid?</p>
<p>3) How can we improve our chances of being accepted?</p>
<p>Great questions! My daughter was also wait listed @ Tufts and we have the same questions. Good luck to you chococookie!</p>
<p>Thank you, Feliz. Good luck to your daughter as well!</p>
<p>Chococookie – Good luck to you getting off the waitlist! (Love the screen name!!) My son’s on the WL too –</p>
<p>Hey I was waitlisted too!</p>
<p>But I’m really worried because the email also said that I will only know if I’m off the waitlist after the first week of May. Thing is, I also have acceptances by other colleges that will require me to reply by the 1st of May. If I decide to forfeit those and go for Tufts, and IF I don’t get admitted, I’ll lose everything!</p>
<p>D:</p>
<p>Is there a way around this?</p>
<p>yes, you have to accept a decision from another college. If you choose to go to tufts, you will have to forfeit the deposit at that college.</p>
<p>You’re not supposed to not respond to other colleges because of the waitlist- in fact they strongly encourage you don’t do this. Instead you visit the schools you got into and submit your acceptance materials and deposit to them. If you get off of the waitlist, you withdraw from the school you enrolled at and enroll at Tufts instead. You loose your deposit, so you have to think about wether Tufts really is your top school and wether its worth it.</p>
<p>I got put on waiting list too.
How do they determine who gets off the waiting list first?
On the letter, it said “Tufts’ Waiting List is not ranked” so is that mean the earlier you submit your waiting list form, the better chance you get off the waiting list?</p>
<p>Kailey: No, I don’t think so. They evaluate the entire waiting pool when considering who to take off. It’s essentially like a whole new admissions evaluation. Everyone starts at the same ranking, and they go from there.</p>
<p>And I’ve gotten the sense that with most of these good schools with limited endowments, they’re looking for people on the waitlist to pay the full financial load. FA is thus less likely to be given to people off the waitlist.
This really really sucks and is not fair. But these schools are running short on cash and need full-paying students to stay afloat.</p>
<p>^^^^ Regarding Waitlist and FinAid: not so with Tufts, actually. In our limited use of the waitlist last year, many candidates taken were FinAid recipients, with several receiving full-tuition packages. </p>
<p>“Not ranked” just means that <em>if</em> we go to the waitlist, we do so with fresh eyes.</p>
<p>(Expect a more robust post on the waitlist soon)</p>
<p>So I was accepted to U of Chicago and Dartmouth… but Waitlisted at Tufts? Is Tufts really hard (especially this year) because all the Ivy-appliers used it as a safety, in which process Tuft’s acceptance rate floor-rocketed? Because I was hoping that Tufts would be… More likely to accept me than Chicago or Dartmouth. And I was actually really starting to like Tufts as college decision too…</p>
<p>Hmm.</p>
<p>I wish the wait-list would clear sooner than May 1st. But I guess that’s the point, eh? They have to hear from their replies first!</p>
<p>Best wishes to you all.</p>
<p>Good luck guys. I am accepted to Tufts, but planning to withdraw my app, so I guess there will be at least 1 space available!</p>
<p>I’m on the wait-list as well. Are you guys sending any additional material?</p>