My college counselor emailed our rep, who said that it is “unlikely that they go to to their waitlist this year, but they are not 100% certain yet”
Of the schools I’ve heard about, most estimated correctly in terms of achieving the targeted number of freshmen to accept, so there are little if any spots left for waitlist offers.
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Based upon the number of applicants and acceptance rates at the most selective schools, thus makes sense. If HYPSM acceptance rates are lower than ever and they hit their yield targets, it stands to reason that yield rates at a Penn, Columbia, UChicago, Brown will also be quite high. Because some students who would have otherwise gone to HYPSM aren’t getting admitted to those schools this year.
So you’ll see the same pattern at WashU, Cornell, Northwestern, Hopkins, USC too.
If anything, it wouldn’t surprise me to see schools overenrolled this year.
I know that’s not what people want to hear on a thread like this one, but even in the best years, the odds of getting off the list from among those who accept a waitlist spot and continue to demonstrate interest at WashU is pretty low.
Best of luck to everyone.
Definitely a trickle down effect and schools are over enrolled. Purdue is full. Colgate is full. Michigan is full. UVA is full.
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Sorry I know this is WashU forum but where did you hear Michigan is full?
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how do you know UVA is full?
Anyone have any updates?
How do you know about UVA??
Dean J has said several times on Instagram there will be minimal waitlist activity this year. They have let a few in for nursing, kinesiology and education but from what I hear very few. I heard 5 for kinesiology.
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omg for a moment I thought u were talking about Washu’s wl 
almost had a heart attack
Where did you hear Michigan was full?
I look at this year’s waitlist situation a little differently.
I think waitlists are going to resemble a giant game of dominoes. On average, students applying to Top 20 schools appear to have applied to far more schools than in a typical (non-Covid) year because they were unable to visit schools and because of the overall uncertainty. I am an alumni interviewer for Duke, and the applicants who I interviewed confirmed this. In fact, one of my interviewees applied to 25 schools. I believe there were a lot of HYPSM applicants who also applied to lower level Ivies and other top schools like Vandy, Duke, Wash U, etc. There is a decent probability that those who were admitted to a HYPSM probably were also admitted (or waitlisted) by many of the other top schools to which they applied. Those HYPSM applicants can only attend one of the schools to which they were admitted. Decision day was May 1 (May 3 for Ivies). So, it has been less than 2 weeks since the accepted HYPSM students had to decline their acceptances to the numerous other top schools to which they were probably admitted. I believe schools are now digesting those decisions and are trying to determine which waitlist applicants will help them satisfy their goals for the freshman class they are trying to build. I think that, once some of the Ivy League schools and other top tier schools begin pulling from their waitlists, it will then set the stage for other top and mid tier schools to be in a position to offer admission to more waitlisted candidates. I hope the dominoes begin to fall soon, and I hope it works out for many of the waitlisted candidates.
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Hope so mr beefstew2
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It’s just a theory combined with some logic and common sense, but I hope I’m right.
Has anyone heard from Washu yet?
No 
not yet. I’m scared. I sent a letter of continued interest in April. My friend got taken off the waitlist at Purdue today so maybe colleges are beginning to look at their waitlists? Idk. Lmk if you guys have heard anything!
What you’re saying makes sense and could very well play out. There’s the domino effect and multiple cross admits likely reducing a lot of yields. But there’s also things schools can control. WashU overenrolled by 100 students last year. Per things I’ve read, 60% of their target enrollment came ED last year. This year it’s “over 60%”. How much? No one knows, but anything extra protects yield. But even if ED enrollment is the same, RD yield can drop appreciably for them to meet the 1800 target.
It’s telling to me that 1) ED appears to have more slots this time 2) apps are up appreciably 3) unlike other schools, their admit rate didn’t appreciably drop and 4) they’re now a year into offering free rides to MO and So Illinois applicants coming from families with less than 75k of income. They’re doing things to increase yield/protect enrollment yet keeping forecasted yield below Class of 2023+2024 levels. In other words, they seem to have baked in a lot of the domino/chaos theory into their decision. And they are somewhat fortunate in that they can afford to overenroll. Plenty of (relatively)cheap apartments in St Louis and if push comes to shove they can probably grab emergency housing at Fontbonne down the street.
But this is all conjecture. No one knows what will happen. But I wouldn’t say that just because it hasn’t happened yet, it won’t. Brown just dipped into their waitlist today. “Downstream” effects haven’t had time to run their course.
Once people provide LOCI and anything else they have up their sleeve, there’s nothing they can productively worry about. WashU may have overenrolled already. They might have some slots in certain schools or for certain demos. They may pull from those they denied ED thinking they are safer bets to accept the offer. Nobody knows.
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Has anyone heard any updates about WashU’s waitlist? Nobody’s said anything for a while so I just wanted to see if anyone had heard anything. Good luck to you all!
I hate to say it but I think they are full or overenrolled. There might be a person here or there who will come off but at this point I could only see late summer possibilities if International students have problems with Visas.
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I really don’t understand why they don’t just email us that the waitlist is closed and only keep a few students on in that case. The wait is just cruel.