<p>Just checked their CDS for the past few years. 2013 isn’t available yet. For 2010/2011/2012 they enrolled off the waitlist- 0/152/0 students. Probably waitlisted thousands.</p>
<p>^Waitlist is just a euphemism for declined really. Kinda sad, because I’d rather them have the balls and tell me I’m not smart enough for them, but w/e college is full of BS to make sure no feelings are hurt.</p>
<p>“Washington University in St. Louis has notoriously huge waitlists— they won’t even tell you how long. My bet is they put over 10,000 kids on the waitlist every year for a class of 1,350. The thing is, though, they don’t count you on the waitlist until you tell them it’s your first choice. It’s a despicable practice, but it’s a popular place and they can get away with it.” — Jon Reider, director of college counseling at San Francisco University High School</p>
<p>Accepted! I have an ACT of 33, with a 34 superscore, and unweighted GPA of 3.96 and weighted GPA of 4.53. I am so excited about the opportunity to become a WashU Bear!</p>
<p>My son was accepted today-to Wash U St L-college of arts and sciences-he is thrilled. His stats are: a gpa about 3.8 lots of honors math and science classes, but also very strong all As in his English classes-not fab in foreign languages; 32 Act and 790 SAT 2 Math, but only 700 Physics. Lots of meaningful ECs Varsity Golf Captain, Varsity Hockey all 4 years for each-at a very academically competitive east coat boarding school-did not visit the campus-wanted to apply because no additional essays and it is a great school- not too far from his midwest home.</p>
<p>Agree @Nothingimportant. I was waitlisted, so I’m not just saying that. I think it’s kind of rude that they waitlist so many people when they clearly know they won’t need even close to that many people. I mean really, like 10x more people have gotten waitlisted than rejected so far on here!</p>
<p>Accepted. 2320, lots of ec, good essays. Best of luck to those wait listed. It’s not one of my top choices so hopefully I can open up a spot for one of you. </p>
<p>Congrats to all who were accepted. D was WL … NMF, IB diploma candidate, UW 3.98, W 4.56, ACT 34 (one sitting), good ECs, recs and essay. Demonstrated interest: visited and toured (from nearby state) and interviewed with a student, a couple of emails to admissions to update info. FA requested. Fortunately, D was offered a large merit scholarship at her second choice school where she thinks she will be very happy. Good luck to everyone. </p>
<p>BigFudge, that isn’t how it works. Your going elsewhere does not open up any spots. For RD, they accept some 4000+ students for the 1000+ spots left after ED. Knowing that typically about 25% will enroll. You can see this from the CDS. If everyone enrolled who is accepted, that would be a surprise for them. They wouldn’t know where to put everyone.</p>
<p>^^ where you get this 4000 numbers from. </p>
<p>Admitted! Though I’m not a hundred percent sure to go, I look forward to seeing you all who are admitted 
And good luck to anyone who’s less lucky this time - I’m sure better news will come later!</p>
<p>@matrixsurgeon Haha I guess we were both wrong then. Have you checked your decision?</p>
<p>Admitted for engineering. 36, 2360, 4.0, solid ECs. I’m from St. Louis which is supposed to make getting in difficult, but I’ve also been able to show a ton of interest: multiple visits, interview, CoE events, etc.</p>
<p>The first words of the waitlist letter gave me a heart attack </p>
<p>The Admissions Committee at Washington University has carefully reviewed your application and would like to offer you a place… </p>
<p>At this point, I got excited and started skimming to get to the point. The next words I read were: </p>
<p>The competition this year was extraordinarily strong. The Admissions Committee was impressed with your application… </p>
<p>I screamed for my mom and sister and we all started celebrating for, like, two minutes until my sister decided to read the full letter which says:</p>
<p>The Admissions Committee at Washington University has carefully reviewed your application and would like to offer you a place on our wait list for the freshman class. You will also receive this notification by mail.</p>
<p>The competition this year was extraordinarily strong. The Admissions Committee was impressed with your application, and we are sorry that we cannot offer you a place at this time.</p>
<p>Haha. Gave me a heart attack. Congrats to all those who were accepted.</p>
<p>dad14, see items C1 and C21in this document for 2012 data.
<a href=“http://wustl.edu/policies/assets/pdfs/wustl%20cds%202012-2013.pdf”>http://wustl.edu/policies/assets/pdfs/wustl%20cds%202012-2013.pdf</a></p>
<p>2401 + 2475 = 4876 admitted
4876 - 521 ED admits = 4355 RD admits.</p>
<p>789 + 833 = 1622 enrolled
1622 - 521 = 1101 RD enrolled</p>
<p>My 4000+ was very rough, just giving general scale that they are operating on.</p>
<p>And of course these #s are not exact. A few of the ED admits may not have enrolled, for example.</p>
<p>Item C2 says nobody got off the waitlist.</p>
<p>@cele thanks for the info. Yes seems like lot of them got admitted but ~25% got enrolled and still no one from the Waitlist moved to admitted . </p>
<p>Still not explained is why they put so many on wait list when they know the chances are slim to none by the above stats…</p>
<p>Looks like that year the RD admit rate was 17%.
4355/(27265 - 1695) = 0.17</p>
<p>What is it this year? Is is going down even more? Or stabilized?</p>
<p>@cele Very interesting. Being new to this, I would have thought schools would aim a little low to make sure they have enough beds- and then use wait list to fill out the class, but with none off wait list some years, it seems they shoot for precise number. I am surprised more schools don’t get burned by an unexpectedly high yield and run out of beds! </p>
<p>Accepted to CAS! But then again, I was rejected ED from Cornell. It’s all just a crapshoot. Where you go to college isn’t that important - it’s what you do in college that matters most (gasp, can I say this on CC?).
(I had a 34 ACT and a 3.7 UW) </p>
<p>Looking at DUKE 2012-2013</p>
<p>Admitted 2069+2008 = 4077
Enrolled 869 + 845 = 1714
Waitlist admitted. = 310</p>
<p>Waitlisted! LOL. who cares right now when He’s being accepted to Penn??</p>
<p>Accepted to Engineering! Big Surprise!</p>