Also a few people on Reddit said they got off Vanderbilt’s waitlist last week, on the 15th
You can see in the master list in the OP which schools/programs/majors have gone to the waitlist, and on approximately what date.
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Anyone got off the UVA enginering waitlist?
So curious about this too!
Yes I know…I didn’t see the updates for UMich or Vanderbilt on the master list. Also another person on Reddit saying they got off Vanderbilt WL last night (5/19)
Both schools are on there!
not the new dates of waitlist movement…
If you want to add those ongoing dates, you can…that’s the idea of this thread.
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Not saying it’s not true, but caution that Redditor is a little suspect. They are spamming in tons of college forums and have claimed off four waitlists in the last two days. I’ve been keeping tabs for my niece.
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Yes, please feel free to add to the master list with an additional notation of additional waitlist program movement. Please don’t change the original date of the waitlist opening. Please also be sure the information is reliable before messing with the master list. Thank you.
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I agree if Reddit (or TikTok) is the only source it shouldn’t be added to the master list.
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I’ve been so confused to read of kids who get off multiple waitlists. Colleges insist the waitlist isn’t ranked. And received wisdom is that a college is filling missing pieces in the makeup of an incoming class: “We need someone from Nebraska” or “we need a soprano for the madrigal choir.” If that’s so, what explains these kids who get off one, two, three, four waitlists? Anyone have any insights?
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I know the old adage is the tuba player, but mine was a run of the mill stem kid pursing pre-med with no hooks or geographic interest. Special to me, but a dime a dozen! A year in, I can confidently say there was no shortage he was filling. 
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What school did your son get off the wait list(s)? I think old adage of the tuba player etc are for those that have small student bodies so need to fill in slots when they hear back from students ie. when the tuba player they were hoping for declines their offer for another school and yet they still need that tuba player. A school like UCLA won’t be using the wait list to fill in their needs since they have so many students. However, there are small schools where many admitted students are not expected to fill a niche so they will pull a student off that isn’t expected to fill some slot since they already filled all their niche slots.
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I meant it more tongue-in-cheek. They had several waitlists, but only continued on two. They got off Brown waitlist where there is a surplus of premeds, thus my corny joke about not fitting the need profile.
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MIT has accepted all it plans to accept from the WL and has closed the WL per notification to their Educational Counselors (MIT-speak for alumni interviewers)).
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I can’t answer why one particular kid gets off a bunch of waitlists, but my understanding is that often it isn’t “we need a tuba player”, it’s more simply that “one kid withdrew his acceptance for electrical engineering /college of arts and sciences (or however X school admits), so we have a space for the next person on the list”. My further understanding is that for schools that don’t pledge to meet need of all admits, most funding is accounted for by this stage so next person on list in practice may be next full pay person on list.
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My child is an athlete who did not apply as an athlete. (Very competitive sport with little to no direct access from high school to college; most who go onto even D3 do a couple extra years before entering.) He decided to just play club, which gave him an application that was not especially in alignment.
He ended up on a bunch of waitlists and has somehow been admitted to many of them, including Northeastern, Bucknell, and Syracuse. However, he has NOT been admitted to his top choice–the only one where he wrote a loci, sent extra references, and had a letter of support from the club coach. Go figure!
But, again, what list are they next on? The colleges say the waitlists aren’t ranked and are in no particular order. So … who are they calling if they just need an electrical engineer? My confusion stems from the example seen in ProudDramaMama’s post: Her kid got off three waitlists; others get off zero. Why this stacking up? If it’s not a ranked list in order of academic merit or something else?
Anyway, I guess we can’t really know. And presumably it’s a bit different from school to school. I just keep hearing of these kids getting off multiple waitlist while my kid continues to wait for just one.
I also had heard – and been warned – that financial aid may no longer be there by this stage. But, again, what people post here on CC and on Reddit doesn’t entirely bear that out. I remain confused by the other full-need kid in my kid’s same major, who got off two waitlists while, again, mine got off none.
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Add Caltech.
Received official email that their waitlist is now closed
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