To be honest, after May 1st, healthy thing to do is to move on from limbo and mentally commit to the college you paid deposit to. Be happy and enjoy what you got, withdraw names from waitlists and stop waiting for bigger fish to show up.
Go join social media groups for your college, start wearing college t-shirt, buy dorm decor, attend graduation parties, have a great summer!
Rose Hulman is active.
@Riversider i agree about mentally committing to the school you deposited at, but most schools don’t release waitlist candidates until after may 1st so i dont see any reason to withdraw your name from the waitlist
If I were better at using the site search tools I would find the waitlist threads from the past two years and try to figure out which schools started adding from waitlist before May 1. It feels like there are a lot more schools than expected on that list from yesterday. Going to waitlist that early means that you’re not hitting your enrollment expectations.
As a parent of a senior who is on a couple of waitlists and has waitlisted friends, I’m more interested on seeing the ones that close. Sure, you should be healthy and move on and not expect anything, but it’s hard to get that true closure while the waitlist is hanging fire out there. It’s likely that kiddo’s waitlists won’t pop, but until I know that the possibility is gone I need to keep all that information in my spreadsheet and can’t make the financial commitment to book hotel rooms for move-in day.
Carnegie Mellon has released their essay prompt for priority waitlist candidates.
Essay prompt for waitlist? Oh heck no. No school is worth that. Lol!
@Trixy34 agreed!
Why am I not shocked by UChicago going to the WL. They intentionally under-accepted to engineer the lowest admissions % they could, they employ 2 rounds of ED and a totally misleading EA round (where they defer 95% of applicants), and to top it all, have test-optional admissions now. As someone who got accepted to that school over 10 years ago and HAD immense respect for the institution, the games they are playing with admissions is really tarnishing the brand.
Are students who are accepted off wailist not included in admission yield %? And 100% agree @Trixy34 …so yucky to have kids write yet another essay to get off a waitlist.
@StanfordGSB00 - completely agree. UChicago was my son’s “dream” school for the longest time. But after they eliminated the admissions interview in favor of a personal video and went test-optional, he decided not to apply. Part of it was distance, but a not insignificant factor was all the games they are playing. We were really turned off.
@EENYMum - I think the way the waitlists are handled is they approach a waitlisted kid to say “hey, will you come here if we admit you?” Then, if the kid says yes, then they issue an acceptance, so it’s basically like ED where you’re approaching a 100% yield for those admits.
@EENYMum - cherrypicking students off the WL is also another practice of artificially raising UChicago’s yield. So, let’s say it accepted 2,000 (just for example) spots before the WL and then accepted 10 students from the WL, the yield just went up because those 10 students from the WL will end up matriculating. So, you’re adding students at a 100% yield from the WL. Schools are very secretive about their WL practices but if you talk to anyone who has been accepted off the WL at a top school, you will know that schools will ask MANY questions before they actually “extend a WL offer.” This could be a phone call gauging interest and asking “would they consider attending if accepted.” Usually, they are giving 24-48 hours to make a decision. So, extending WL offers is akin to increasing your yield since most schools are reporting WL acceptances (only) for those students who are picked with a VERY HIGH chance of enrolling (who certainly are expected to verbally commit) before an “offer” is made.
Also, in almost all cases the wait list is not need blind at need blind schools. Many schools do not offer FA to WL students so they come in at full pay $
@suzyQ7 - that is not true. We know a girl who just got off Davidson WL with a fantastic FA package. It exceeded her EFC by thousands. Best FA package she received.
Case also sends FA packages to all WL kids and does use them if they get off.
Wake Forest University Admissions has announced they will not be going to waitlist. If they need to admit more students, they will let you know.
NOT going to waitlist
Wailists active
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[] American
[] Barnard
[] Bucknell
[] Case Western spring admits
[] Cooper Union
[] College of Wooster
[] Davidson
[] Dickenson
[] Duke
[] F&M
[] Fordham
[] Georgia Tech
[] James Madison
[] Kenyon
[] Lehigh
[] Middlebury
[] Mt Holyoke
[] Pitt
[] Purdue
[] Rose Hulman
[] Siena
[] Smith
[] UChicago
[] UCLA
[] UCSD
[] UMiami
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Clarification on Wake - they may possibly be going to their WL at a later date:
“At this time, we are not reviewing applications and have no immediate plans to admit additional students off of our active wait list. We have heard from many applicants sincerely interested in attending Wake Forest. Continue to keep your regional dean informed of your interest and recent accomplishments. This information will be useful should we find ourselves needing to enroll additional applicants at a later time.”
Pepperdine WL active today.
Could be that the colleges offering waitlist admissions with FA had underyield on students needing FA, so (a) they had remaining FA budget, and (b) they did not want their incoming class to be skewed more toward scions of wealth than it normally is.
From reddit, I’ve read that Claremont McKenna has started notifying people.
I saw people come off waitlist for Soka and Williams