youngn-011

someone just posted on facebook that they are off Bowdoin's waiting list so there should be hope for any potential Polar Bears out there

Anxious428

nikkiaddo21: My friend got an offer on Friday (first rounds) off the BU wait list. I myself am wait listed @ Lehigh (called the dean of admissions; they are significantly over accepted by 100+ students), Wake Forest, University of Richmond (started making calls Friday (first rounds), and Boston College. Anyone hear anything about any of the above?

Good luck to all! (fingers crossed!)

Goldberg2

wake forest is taking off of the waiting list, no one knows about tufts. Where are you headed ^

Soulmates

I know someone from my school who got off BC's waitlist yesterday!

sryr5544

soulmates: how was your friend notified?

NicolieMarie

so Boston College said they cant give out info over the phone about the waitlist and they do not encourage additional rec letters to be sent. do you think they would care if i sent a teacher rec anyway? and i also wanted to send an essay i wrote for another app last fall because Ive realized my common app essay wasnt good at all and the one I want to send them is much better, what do you think?

oh and then do you think they would care if i called anyway or sent them a letter asking how i can get in touch with an admissions rep? i really just want to talk to someone and get some more info.

Anxious428

NicolieMarie: I talked to my admissions counselor myself b/c I was up in the area on a choir trip and she said DO NOT send anything additionally: you've done all you can at this point.

Goldberg2: I am headed to Bentley in Waltham, Massachusetts

Soulmates: Which school in BC did they get accepted to (Arts&Sciences, Education, Nursing, Business)

overit

We haven't updated the list for a few pages so here it is again. I moved Bowdoin from inactive to active per post #841 above & added BC. Good luck. THis is just as bad as waiting for the first round...or worse because you don't know when it will finally be over...

ACTIVE WAITLISTS*

Amherst(to take 15)
Beloit College
Boston College
Boston University
Bowdoin
Brandeis
Caltech
Case Western
College of Wooster
Columbia
Connecticut College
Cornell (Hotel Administration)
Duke (Apparently quite active)
Emerson
Emory
Fairfield
Franklin and Marshall College
Georgetown University (SFS)
George Washington
Hamilton
Harvard (will take at least 200, a few confirmed phone calls yesterday)
Johns Hopkins
Lafayette College
Miami (FL)
Middlebury
MIT(35)
Mount Holyoke
NYU (and Stern)
Northeastern
Northwestern (active, but very little visible activity thus far. 2 week wait. Will take "quite a lot")
Penn (CAS only? unless someone has heard otherwise..)
Pomona (to take 15-20)
Princeton (To take 90)
Quinnipiac
Reed (10)
Skidmore
Smith
Swarthmore (to take 15-20, started calling)
Syracuse
Trinity University
Tufts (only Int and Engineering, so far, they do not know whether they will have to go the waiting list or not.
Tulane
University of Chicago
University of Georgia
University of Miami
University of Pennsylvania (will take ~90)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
University of Notre Dame
Vanderbilt
Villanova
Wake Forest
Washington University
Washington & Lee
Whitman (sending emails on Friday)
Williams
Yale (will take ~45, no activity so far)

*INACTIVE WAITLISTS*

Carnegie Mellon University
Colby College
Dartmouth (keeping short list)
Lehigh
Rice University
Stanford (for now, although keeping a short list on extended waitlist)
University of Virginia (overenrolled for now)
Ursinus

sailpgd

I was accepted off the University of Richmond's waitlist on April 30th so there wait list is definitely active. I am still waiting to hear from Wake? Does anyone know how many Wake plans to take off the waitlist?

oldyale

i have noticed you are not including Wesleyan University in CT on your list. I believe their waitlist is active. Good luck!

gadli

Yale has had activity, a good friend of mine was taken off the waitlist over the weekend.

Mondo

Some thoughts about the schools with 'inactive wait-lists'

In the case of Dartmouth, what if they lose a large number to HYP and some of its peer schools (Duke, Penn, etc)? Would this mean that Dartmouth could suddenly decide to use the waitlist?

This is almost comical.
So many schools took the risk of having these 'scary low acceptance rates' and admissions staffs throughout the country are now working overtime!

I predicted early on that yield was going to plummet for so many top schools due to the loss of early admissions of Harvard and Princeton.
Some like Duke and Columbia are preparing early by accepting a large number off the waitlist, who knows? Maybe Duke will have another 1700+ person class, hopefully RLHS solves their problems by then.. we would be able to boast about having a 'higher yield than last year'. You know what, it may not be a bad strategy.

Some like UVA can survive because it is an elite state school, if I lived in Virginia, I would have likely gone to UVA myself.

Anxious428

sailpgd: Did you accept your place @ Richmond/ are you still waiting for Wake?

sailpgd

I sent in a deposit to Richmond but am still hoping to get into Wake.

smustehsan

oldtimeyfan:
" If he gets lucky with the w/l, maybe you'll get lucky with Penn."
How self centered is that! jk jk ...I hope we both get lucky.