What waitlists are active? Who has closed their waitlists?

@SouthernHope aaaand, did he get in? Interesting!

@homerdog It is called “summer melt”. The school hears from students who initially deposited and accepted the offer, then notify the school they are not coming. Schools anticipate some, but if it higher than they planned, they can still reach out. Some schools pare down their WL in late May, and keep a smaller # on in case of higher than planned summer melt.

Has anyone heard anything about Northwestern?

NYU has asked applicants whether they will come if offered a WL place, and tweeted response from NYU says movement off WL this week can be expected.

@joangood someone in D19’s class apparently got an offer from Northwestern on Friday or Saturday.I presume off WL?

I know a kid who got into Stanford about 3 weeks before school started. But yes, it’s about summer melt.

And remember that if a kid who was heading to William’s decides to take a year off for health reasons, Williams may offer that spot to someone who was on their WL. And if that kid decides to take the offer, Bowdoin may now have an opening. Which may create one somewhere else as someone takes that spot… The term melt is really a good one because it’s often slow and all over the place.

Reading posts, I think a lot of people assume that they get their class, spend a week or 2 with the WL, and are done. The last few percent is much messier and doesn’t follow anyone’s timeline except the schools’ because even they can’t count on everyone who deposited showing up. This is, btw, one of the other benefits of ED - those students aren’t on anyone’s WL.

Purdue had a massive influx of matriculating freshman students last year. They were in make-shft dorms in basements of buildings. Looked like cubicles. I guess they were more conservative with admissions, but to have to go from WL to rejections to get more freshman to fill seats? That is just crazy. I think they were getting too cocky with OOS, but I think only CS and FYE are willing to pay full price. The other schools like liberal arts and polytechnic may be struggling with getting OOS kids to matriculate. They don’t offer much merit at all and only to handful to the OOS kids. So most people were complaining about costs and going elsewhere on the thread. We did the same.

Interesting. I do think they are also going to waitlist, but several reporting getting acceptances in the past week after being rejected in March/April.

“I don’t get why this would bleed into June, July, or August.”

  • Summer melt, as stated above. However, Harvard does call off the W/L as late as mid-June, and you'd think they would have minimum melt. Maybe those are mostly for the Z-List? Not sure.

@homerdog it’s kind of interesting what happened. i was relatively new to CC at the time and my daughter and i were closely monitoring the Georgetown boards to see if anyone got off the list…when suddenly a message popped out that could have been written by my daughter - same major, same part of the country, same gender, same scores…i think at the very end of these things, they basically are slotting in one kid to replace another kid…and that applicant “won.” (though it should be noted that my kid had an amazing undergrad career and after that initial sting, she never looked back).

There was someone rejected in January for Purdue who was just accepted too.

I’m sorry but if our S was rejected somewhere and then accepted now, that school can forget about him. I’m sure most of those kids have moved on. They weren’t even waitlisted! And why would Purdue not use its waitlist first? Did they not waitlist enough kids? That sounds like a mess.

@someone121 It is not official yet. But I heard from someone at Dartmouth admission/FA office that many admitted students (more than they anticipated) decided accepting the offer this time. They have already over-admitted and therefore they will not take anybody from WL this year. Sorry for the news and I wish they might still open few slots for the WL students.

any word on Northwestern or UNC waitlists?

Dartmouth did seem to be a pretty hot school this year. (Not that I have anything to compare it to since this is our first go-round. Lol)

My oldest cleared a waitlist in August. It was too late. He was already full sails out for his college.

In that case, there were no pre commits or GC involvements. Just came unexpectedly out of blue

Is any significant part of “summer melt” due to rescinded admissions after final transcripts are out, or is that negligible?

Lol - I bet there are a few of those, too. There are a lot of reasons.

Just got a call that I cleared the Wesleyan waitlist!

Gettysburg went to waitlist - friend’s D got a call yesterday.

Anyone know if Georgetown is going to waitlist?