<p>Does anyone know much about waitlisting?</p>
<p>I haven't been rejected/accepted yet, but I want to know how it works. Do they let you know by mail? What?</p>
<p>I don't have much knowledge regarding waiting lists either, but I'll share with you what I do know:</p>
<p>The</a> Admission Decision — Freshman — Apply — University of Washington</p>
<p>"The Waitlist</p>
<p>Only applicants who have received a waitlist invitation letter are eligible to be placed on the waitlist. To be placed on the waitlist, you must complete and return the Waitlist Response Form included with the letter by the date indicated on the form.</p>
<p>Students on the waitlist are not rank ordered (for example, 10th on a list of 100). If space for some waitlist students should become available, decisions will be made at that time and will be based only on the application materials we had on file at the time applications were originally reviewed. Please do not send additional application materials.</p>
<p>We are not likely to know if we will be able to admit applicants from the waitlist before mid-June. We will send an update to all waitlisted applicants by the end of June.</p>
<p>To give some historical perspective, there have been years when most waitlisted applicants were eventually offered admission and other years when very few were offered admission. Because of this uncertainty, we strongly advise those on the waitlist to confirm their intention to enroll at another college or university for this autumn."</p>
<p>According to BusinessWeek, three out of 855 applicants on the waiting list later got accepted (probably referring to last year).</p>
<p>University</a> of Washington Undergrad Profile</p>
<p>I'm not sure how reliable that is, considering that the same link says that 3% of admitted students have below a 3.25 GPA, whereas UW's freshman admission handbook says 6%. :/</p>