@THeMoMo Thank you for taking the time to post to us. The pain of losing my Dad is very fresh and raw for us and not only does DS love Maine, Bowdoin’s curriculum and campus he also wanted to finish what Grandpa started. Thank you for your kind and wise words. Currently, he’s been accepted to another NE LAC and is working hard this weekend on learning to love that school.
son waitlisted, from the looks of this thread it looks like he has plenty of company.
SAT: 1570
GPA: 3.7 UW, 4.4 W
They must have waitlisted a ton this year… I also received a WL
SAT: 1550
UW GPA: 3.88
Okay ECs (independent research, a few leadership positions, but no major awards)
Good Common App, rushed the supp
Decent recommendations (one pretty good, one okay)
Did not do optional video or show any demonstrated interest
I was admitted.
1370 SAT / 30 ACT
3.9 GPA
My ECs were strong, but not amazingly so.
I applied through Questbridge, my interview went extremely well, and I also went on their fly-in this fall.
Waitlisted. Hoping for better news next week from Haverford, Carleton, Wesle
Waitlisted
@Charlie2772 So sorry. Your son sounds like a great kid and has great stats, so no doubt he will have fantastic opportunities. I defnitely get it, though.
@AlwaysLearn Thank you. I’m sure he will. It’s just a complex grieving process at play. Thanks for reaching out
Rejected 
Bowdoin was my dream school so that’s pretty sad. Congrats to everyone who got in though!
1430 SAT
4.0 UW/4.88 W
Does anybody have an idea of how many people they waitlist each year and how many get off the waitlist?
No one got off last year.
Yield rates will be unusually low this year probably…due to COVID-19
@Xxdreams I wouldn’t count on that for a school like Bowdoin and other top schools that meet need without loans. I think Bowdoin’s yield is historically high but, even if it’s 50% in RD, they still have the other 50% of kids they accepted to say yes before they would go to waitlist.
Admissions appears random on the individual level, but it’s anything but that. It seems random because we’re just looking at the very basic stats of those who share. Colleges invest a lot for analytics to predict yield, $ impacts, etc. I’ve learned a lot reading these posts. Thank you to everyone who posts. Congrats to those who are accepted.
DD was waitlisted. SAT 1590, 4.0 (no weighting in our state), IB Diploma (if they can finish it now that the coronavirus has ruined all our plans), varsity athlete. I’m peeved because she has grandparents in state, and it would have been a great fit.
This process is rough.
Accepted
ACT: 35, essay 11
GPA 3.65 UW, 4.85 UW
Taking a gap year and applied through Questbridge RD.
I had some very focused and deep extracurriculars for medicine, research, and environmental science.
EFC 0. Come from a very competitive high school from Illinois.
My UW gpa is not that high, but perhaps my ACT and intensive curriculum made up for it?
Finally, congratulations to everyone that got in.
Rejected (International, asian girl)
SAT: 1490
Math lvl2: 800
GPA: 3.8 UW
Congratz to everyone who got in 
My sibling was accepted!
- Amazing essays, decent recommendation letters
- Theatre / CS double major
- QBCPS (did CS research), QBNCM Finalist, JKCF Semi-Finalist, Hagan Semi-Finalist
- First-gen, low-income
- Rural public school
- No AP, IB, honors courses (not offered) but some dual enrollment courses
- 3.97 GPA, 33 ACT
- Fluent in Spanish; studies French, Italian, Swahili, ASL
- Extracurriculars: theatre, ballet, started ASL club, Spanish club, political activism, self-taught cellist/artist (submitted art portfolio)
- Participated in fly-in, did well during interview
No one from any school in our county has ever been accepted to Bowdoin and I was the first to be accepted to/attend an Ivy
Congrats to the Bowdoin c/o 2024
for future applicants:
waitlisted
SAT: 1560
GPA: 4.988 (weighted)
subject tests: us history (800) math 2 (790) world history (770)
no class rank
junior year AP: art history (5), lang (5), physics 1 (4), us history (5)
senior year AP: calc bc, us gov, english lit, spanish language and culture, macro
extracurriculars: model un president for two years with five awards (one from a large international conference–this is a pretty big deal for mun), debate captain, internship on a statewide campaign, concert choir/a capella, rector for a large retreat at my school, political columnist in my school newspaper, volunteering at a home for low-income seniors, peer tutor, founder/president of my school’s jsa chapter, other less important commitments, secretary of a statewide political organization (nj)
awards: first place amc 10 and amc 12, gold medalist national spanish exam (2x), various model un awards, scholarship finalist for my school, brandeis book award, multiple honor societies, guest speaker at a teen leadership camp
common app essay: about how my personal experiences changed my view of politics/religion. it’s definitely good but not the best thing i’ve written
Have any other waitlisted students received an e-mail about the waitlist or heard anything about possible waitlist activity?