Freshman orientation - Fall 2019 Discussion

cbl1
Mon, 22 Apr 2019 18:14:32 +0000

It that you never know who is going to accept their offers and who isn’t. You could be undecided and all the undecideds that had offers all decide on Tech - - and then no undecideds get off the waiting list. Where in my example if you had declared yourself as history major you would have got in. But you never know which major is going to have the most open spots …. so its always an unknown. Even Virginia Tech gets their predictions wrong as to what % are most likely to accept. Until May 1, when all the acceptances are in will they have any clue as to where the open spots really are.

I think then after May 1 - departments will start taking people from the top of their department list and reaching out to waitlist students. Others can probably post experiences from prior years but I think when they contact you about the waitlist you only have like 48 hours to make your decision or they move on to next on the departments list.