<p>I wonder how many of us got waitlisted this year? Will you accept your place on it? What will you do to increase your chance to get in?</p>
<p>@ Ksanyee My Daughter was wait listed at Columbia SEAS. She already accepted her spot on line. I am not sure what she will do to increase her chances. I will post here as soon as she tells me. She got wait listed at MIT too. She accpetted both wait list spots (MIT and Columbia). She will have to send a deposit to another school she likes (Vanderbilt or WashU or Bowdoin) to make sure she will go to college in the fall:) and you should do the same, we never know. She was wait listed at Tufts but she won’t accept the spot on their wait list. Good luck to you!</p>
<p><em>sigh</em> Waitlisted… Thought I had a pretty good chance with the SHP boost, too. :[</p>
<p>I don’t think I can increase my chances since Columbia said on its website that it doesn’t want any extra materials sent in.</p>
<p>I have also already accepted my place on the waitlist, although I see that there isn’t much chance of getting in…</p>
<p>I wonder why there aren’t any official numbers or stats about the number of applicants accepted from their waitlist last year. I heard that you can request information on how many students were accepted from previous waitlists, according to the NACAC “Statement of Students’ Rights and Responsibilities in the College Admissions Process.”</p>
<p>That’s why I don’t understand why doesn’t anyone know exact numbers…</p>
<p>@ksanyee. I agree, I don’t understand why they keep it a secret.
Here is the article on Columbia’s newspaper today about the Class of 2014
[CC</a>, SEAS '14 more selective than ever](<a href=“http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2010/04/01/cc-seas-14-more-selective-ever]CC”>CC, SEAS '14 more selective than ever)</p>
<p>waitlisted but i will go to brown so doesn’t matter</p>
<p>according to one thread from last year, unfortunately Columbia did not accept anyone from the wait list last year - Class of 2013. 
Hopefully this year will be different. Good luck to all.</p>
<p>@Feliz: thanks for the article! This sentence gives me a little (very little) hope:)
“Though waitlist numbers at Columbia are not public, representatives from Admissions said they plan on utilizing the waitlist to the extent necessary depending on yield rate.”</p>
<p>I simply cannot believe that they did not use their waitlist last year. Especially because I read so many different things from last year’s waitlist and I have also found some posts (maybe not here, on CC) which actually said that soemone got in. but we never know:D:S</p>
<p>Yeah, waitlisted also(hurts more than a rejection since my college future is still not definite)
I did accept the waitlist.
I don’t think you can do anything to increase chances at this point.
Good luck to all, and let’s not worry about last years 0%, every year is different.</p>
<p>I agree lola, it’s kind of annoying that we don’t know what we’d do next year…for sure.</p>
<p>But I read somewhere that it’s more like a consolation prize.
And also that waitlist at competitive schools=acception but due to lack of free spaces, we cannot actually enroll. This definiton makes me feel a bit better:)</p>
<p>I accepted the waitlist (SEAS).</p>
<p>I took a spot on the waitlist at CC within 2 minutes of getting my decision haha. I want this so bad I’m willing to do anything I possibly can to increase my chances. I may try to contact the physics department since I live an hour away from NYC. I can be there whenever in the next month so I’m hoping I can make something happen.</p>
<p>Wait trf1021: What do you mean you’re gonna make contact with the physics department?
What can they do? and how is it goning to help you?</p>
<p>if you get accepted off the waitlist, do you have to take the spot, or can you decline if you’ve changed your mind?</p>
<p>You can decline the offer. It’s not at all like ED. For Early Decision, you had to sign an agreement (contract) that you’d accept. What did you agree to when you got on the waitlist?</p>
<p>I have a friend that may be able to introduce me to someone in the physics department. He is doing research with him and he is trying to arrange a meeting to talk about their current project, one that I would definitely have a spot in if I got into Columbia, and about a project that I have been thinking about for a while that I would like to do no matter where I end up. If it goes well, I’ll be writing about it in my essay and if it goes extremely well, I may ask if he can write a very brief letter to include with my essay. But none of this is definite yet and may not even do much to help me, but it is definitely worth a try.</p>
<p>Because I love people who aren’t going to Duke, where I was waitlisted, I thought I’d help you guys love me - I’m not going to Columbia!</p>
<p>Good luck getting off the waitlist!</p>
<p>There aren’t any more waitlistees here on CC? Well, that would be good news:P</p>
<p>What does it mean to be wait listed? Is it just out of courtesy or do you have a shot at getting in? Are you allowed to accept the wait list to multiple schools? I got wait listed to Duke, Boston College, and Brown? Can I accept all of them and see what happens or can I only choose one?</p>
<p>I too am a waitlistee! Only slightly depressed b/c I have other schools to choose from (did you get into Columbia, Anonymous? I’d gladly swap Duke for Columbia :P). So yeah. I guess I’ll write them an impassioned letter detailing why they’d be CRAZY not to take me off the waitlist. Hahha not really, but I’ll give it a shot.</p>