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03-28-2008, 05:35 PM
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#1 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
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| support group for the waitlisted
UVA is my first choice but im afraid ive been forced to languish on the waitlist... what should i do? anything? | 
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03-28-2008, 06:53 PM
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#2 | | Junior Member
Join Date: May 2007
Threads: 60
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| like your screen name, I'm samesies. and ticked off. | |
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03-28-2008, 06:54 PM
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#3 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2006
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Posts: 169
| yea I'm so lost | |
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03-28-2008, 07:27 PM
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#4 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Threads: 17
Posts: 281
| I'm in this group, too---but I had expected to be rejected, so I can't say I'm disappointed or didn't expect it. At least now I won't have a tough decision to make--which I would have had I gotten in.
I heard last year over 4,000 people were waitlisted. | |
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03-28-2008, 07:48 PM
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#5 | | New Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
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| I was waitlisted too  I feel terrible | |
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03-28-2008, 08:12 PM
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#6 | | Member
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: seattle, wa
Threads: 32
Posts: 439
| new addition to the waitlist group
im in the same boat as NJfan. I was pretty much expecting to get rejected, even though i did get my hopes up a little bit. On the bright side, my insanely difficult college choice isnt anymore difficult, at least as of now. Even though UVA was my #1 choice, im totally okay with being waitlisted as all the other schools i have gotten in are reputable.
Heres a tip to anyone rejected/waitlisted (it helped me)- just keep thinking about all the negatives of UVA (according to your standards) so you'll be kind of happy you're not going, whether it's the size, the massive amount of greek life, the cost (oos), the level of difficulty, if its too urban/country, bad dorms, bad food, no cars on campus freshman year, too many preps, or whatever random reasons you think of
and hey...at least we werent rejected. We're the best of the crappy people!
Also I hate to be a downer but for those you waitlisted, count your losses and move on. There is only like ~10% of being accepted off the wl. | |
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03-28-2008, 08:13 PM
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#7 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: NorthernVA >> The University (UVA) 2010
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| Remember: 4000 kids may have been wait-listed. But only somewhere around 1000 accepted. That's the more important number. | 
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03-28-2008, 08:16 PM
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#8 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2006
Threads: 12
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| Wait, if you accept another college's offer, but also the waitlist spot at UVA, and then you get accepted at UVA, you can go there instead? I just need some clarification. | |
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03-28-2008, 08:16 PM
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#9 | | Member
Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: UVA-C'ville
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| ?? Sorry to be dense, but I'm not understanding your post Shoebox? | |
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03-28-2008, 08:19 PM
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#10 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
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| I have a feeling that the yield is going to lower this year, as UVA makes the transition to evaluating all applicants in RD. My best advice for those waitlisted is to update the office with your stats, and write a letter to the committee explaining them why you would be a good fit for UVA, and how interested you are in attending the school. Do it by post/email. | |
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03-28-2008, 08:25 PM
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#11 | | Member
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: seattle, wa
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| barbosa: wouldnt the yield be higher if anything. Think about it, if there are a bunch of kids who know they want to go to UVA, they would have applied ED if they could have. However since there is only RD, all the dedicated ED kids were forced to apply RD. Does that make sense or am i just high?
i would also like to know the answer to arvandm's question | |
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03-28-2008, 08:34 PM
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#12 | | Member
Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: UVA-C'ville
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| The answer to arvandm's question is "yes". That's about the only situation in which one can accept a college offer of admission and then back out. I'm fairly certain on this, but if someone has information to counter, please speak up, just to have all the facts correct.
Dean J would know for sure--how about it, Dean J? | |
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03-28-2008, 08:36 PM
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#13 | | New Member
Join Date: Nov 2007
Threads: 7
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| Lol, being waitlisted sucks.
By chance, are any of you also members of mychances.net? I see a whole bunch of new red dots to indicate rejections for UVa... I'm one of them now, too, I guess, since being waitlisted is practically the same thing.
Of course I'll write a letter, but I doubt that it will do much.
I heard that this is the season of waitlisting... I was waitlisted at 2 of my other schools, one of which I thought was a sure thing. It was kind of a shock. Hm, I guess I should've applied to more than 5 schools, but whatever. | |
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03-28-2008, 08:38 PM
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#14 | | Member
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: seattle, wa
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| yeah honestly i would have rather been rejected. At least i wouldnt have this 3% chance of lingering hope floating over my head | |
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03-28-2008, 08:48 PM
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#15 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
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| afro, students who would like to have early decision as an option will flock to other schools that still have ED/EA in place. Because of the elimination of ED, UVA will be careful not to overadmit, so they will anticipate a lower yield rate. They'll take students off the waitlist, which will significant be larger this year, to match the past years' yield rates. | |
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