<p>as in, if you’re number #1 youll be next in line, etc. etc.</p>
<p>or do they just review all the waitlisted folks again?</p>
<p>Nobody ranks waitlists. You have to be lucky.</p>
<p>Our waitlist is unranked- and remember, you are not in consideration for a spot off of the waitlist unless you reply back to us that you wish to remain on the waitlist, so make sure to do this before May 1 if you wish to remain there.</p>
<p>@UchicagoPSAC: if the waitlist is unranked, then in what order do the adcoms pick the prospectives to be accepted?</p>
<p>Can you tell us how many students are on the wait list?</p>
<p>@UChicagoPSAC : Can you please answer that as to how waitlisted candidates are admitted?</p>
<p>The number of students admitted off of the waitlist changes year to year, and depends on how many admitted students decide to matriculate. Some years we take many people, and some years we take none- we’ll have a clearer picture on the waitlist as time moves on. At this time I do not know an exact figure of how many students on the wait list. The best you can do now is either decide not to remain on the waitlist and matriculate to another school, or accept your place on the wait list AND make sure to accept/deposit at a school at which you were accepted that you would feel comfortable attending.</p>
<p>I have found that an effective way to get off the waitlist is to literally wait right outside the admissions office until the end of June with a sign with a witty saying on it. I’d recommend it;it hasn’t failed me once!</p>
<p>@motion LOLZ. :-)</p>
<p>@UChicagoPSAC: Thanks for sharing that with us 
Could you also tell me how waitlisted students get off the waitlist? Like Wheatbread asked, are they evaluated again?</p>
<p>The method that they use is extremely complex. First, they gather all the applications of waitlisted candidates. Then, they pick twenty of them through a rigorous process of eeny, meeny, miny, moe. After that, they pick out the 20 shadiest characters they find walking around the south side of Chicago. Then, they track these characters and each one is supposed to represent one of the waitlisted applicants that was chosen through the scientifically rigorous process of eeny, meeny, miny, moe. What decides who gets accepted off the waitlist is whose shady character is the first to get arrested (or wanted for a crime). That’s why, some years, no one gets in off it but, in others, many get off it. If I were you, I would go to the South Side of Chicago and just start yelling profanities and insults at every shady person you see. While you might end up dying, there is a good chance that you will be admitted to the University of Chicago (you just can’t trust these guys anymore to incite some sort of violence by themselves!). And, of course, getting in is more valuable than your life so what do you have to lose!</p>
<p>to my knowledge (don’t quote me lol), the way they pick out people from the waitlist is:</p>
<p>say 100 chem majors decided to turn down Chicago’s offer. that means Chicago needs 100 more chem majors in its incoming class. so they check the waitlist and evaluate every chem major again and make a decision based on that. </p>
<p>so calculating chances is almost impossible, unless you know what Chicago needs in terms of the student body to round out the incoming class.</p>
<p>^That’s a perfect strategy. Find accepted students who applied under your major, and then just use your imagination from there.</p>
<p>^ Hahaha, motion12345. </p>
<p>Getting off the waitlist seems impossible. Dying for the other results!</p>
<p>^^^ Yup, but not just majors, but tuba players, etc.</p>
<p>Hahaha @*motion12345.</p>
<p>It must be a mixture of things though right?</p>