Can you get WAITLISTED EARLY DECISION???

Applying to College
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Hey, I was wondering if you can get waitlisted early decision or is it just simply deferred or some schools (Northwestern)-rejection??

Personally I am applying to Duke and I would like to know about this policy.

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<p>i highly doubt it</p>

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<p>They call it deferred. There are a few schools such as Claremont McKenna that do not defer, just accept and reject but that is not the norm.</p>

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<p>No, a friend of mine applied to MIT and was waitlisted; however, he applied to several other schools for regular decision.</p>

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<p>Hello? You can get both waitlisted and deferred. Some schools defer almost everyone, and it’s the same as being rejected, at others you still have the same chance as an RD candidate if you’re deferred.</p>

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<p>If you apply ED, one of three things will happen.</p>

<p>ACCEPTED: self explanatory - you have to attend provided they give you enough financial aid and they decide if they have or not</p>

<p>DENIED: you are out and can not apply again for a year</p>

<p>DEFERRED: they will automatically reconsider you during RD - the truth of the matter is that it is unlikely you will be later be accepted since the competition only gets tougher</p>

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<p>This doesn’t even makes sense… waitlisted people are supposedly those just barely missing making it into the college based on early decisions and regular decision applicants included. The college cannot preset a waitlisted group of students when regular decision candidates have not even been evaluated yet!</p>

<p>TTG</p>

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<p>TTG, stop drinking the bath water!!!</p>

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<p>Suze, I have no idea what you meant by that, but after seeing how you’ve written in other posts and the content of the writing itself, I should be the one telling you to “stop drinking the bath water (?)” (whatever that means). </p>

<p>TTG</p>

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<p>TTG, drinking the bath water=buying the BS. Most people who make it on to a top college wait list will come nowhere close to matriculating. Some schools use the list to not insult the kids they mail ambushed into applying. Others use them to gently let down legacies (oh please, not me) and the otherwise connected. </p>

<p>This year, to have gotten off a top 10 wait list was truly a miracle. Close, but not nearly close enough. Actually, not much closer than actual rejects, just a little nicer.</p>

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<p>ttgiang15 is right. I suppose that someone could be Deferred during ED, and then be Waitlisted during the subsequent RD round. That would be limbo.</p>

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<p>“ttgiang15 is right. I suppose that someone could be Deferred during ED, and then be Waitlisted during the subsequent RD round. That would be limbo.”</p>

<p>I applied to Dartmouth ED only to be deferred and then waitlisted RD. Somehow…someway…I was accepted off of the waitlist. And yes, it was the ultimate limbo.</p>

<p>Waitlists admits were few and far between this year. Here is a story about this year’s waitlist.<br>
<a href=“http://online.wsj.com/public/article/0,,SB111888042358561000-lK9_AZGQU6dMgFOfMXfQrNsdp6Y_20060615,00.html?mod=public_home_us[/url]”>http://online.wsj.com/public/article/0,,SB111888042358561000-lK9_AZGQU6dMgFOfMXfQrNsdp6Y_20060615,00.html?mod=public_home_us&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>My message to those on waitlists in the future is to
1)stay in contact with the school
2) keep hope alive. :)</p>

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<p>Being waitlisted can mean one of three things.<br>

  1. You are denied, but they don’t want to actually say so for fear of offending someone such as your GC, your rich parents, or the volunteer alumni who interviewed you and liked you so much.
  2. You were close and tried so hard that they want to give you a consolation prize so that you don’t feel so bad.
  3. You were as good as anybody else that they accepted but they just don’t have room for everybody.</p>

<p>The waitlist situation has gotten totally out of hand. Some schools are waitlisting as many people as they accept, and then end up accepting zero or only a few people from the waitlist. What looks like a kindness is actually a form of cruelty. Colleges are required to provide you with information about the number of people normally waitlisted and then taken off of the waitlist.</p>

<p>cj: Congratuations!</p>