I accepted my offer to be put on the priority waitlist for CMU’s school of computer science. Does anyone know how the acceptance rate is from the priority waitlist? Are my chances fairly high to get off the priority waitlist?
Last year, 87 people got off the priority waitlist out of all the schools at CMU… Out of those 87, 1 was SCS… so, unfortunately, not very high.
@meempo8 Source?
@viphan i spoke to an admissions counselor last week because I had the same question
@meempo8 If 87 people got off the priority waitlist, how many were on it?
@tomclavmaster http://www.cmu.edu/ira/CDS/pdf/cds_2014-15/c-first-time-first-year-admission.pdf
Correction: 73 got off Waitlist and 1630 were on it
You are conflating both wait lists.
There is no way to know in advance how many are on the PWL or how many will receive offers.
Movement off the wait list can vary greatly from year to year.