<p>I realise that if you were waitlisted you are probably disappointed, but I was wondering how the letter started as people posted their rejection letters and acceptance letters but no waitlist ones (I could find).
Thanks and I hope all the best in your future!</p>
<p>I am writing to inform you that the Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid cannot at this time make a final decision on your application for a place in next year’s entering class. However, because of your outstanding achievements and promise, the committee has voted to place your name on a waiting list of men and women for whom we hope places may become available later. …</p>
<p>I thought it was very nice!</p>
<p>Dear dx1992,</p>
<p>I am writing to inform you that the Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid cannot at this time make a final decision on your application for a place in next year’s entering class. However, because of your outstanding achievements and promise, the Committee has voted to place your name on a waiting list of men and women for whom we hope places may become available later.</p>
<p>This year over thirty thousand students, a record number, applied for admission to the entering class. There were many more candidates of unusual ability and promise than we were able to admit. Of those strong applicants, the Committee has selected a group – representing a small percentage of all our candidates and presenting qualifications which might well have led to admission in other years – to comprise a waiting list. The waiting list is not ranked. If spaces become available, the Committee will reconvene to reconsider all those candidates on the waiting list. Usually about two-thirds of the students offered places on the waiting list choose to remain active candidates.</p>
<p>The number of students to be admitted from our waiting list will depend entirely on the number of students who decline our offer of admission. That number has varied greatly from year to year. Last year, we admitted over one hundred candidates. In other years, it has not been possible to admit anyone from the waiting list.</p>
<p>We recognize that you must make plans at another college while you await our final decision. Please be assured that all colleges will understand your situation and that we will proceed as quickly as possible to reach a decision. Normally, most waiting list decisions are made by the end of May and all are completed by the end of June. To help expedite this process, please return the enclosed postcard or reply to our offer online at <a href=“https://admapp.admissions.fas.harvard.edu/hanevo/waitlist-haServices.do[/url]”>https://admapp.admissions.fas.harvard.edu/hanevo/waitlist-haServices.do</a> by May 1st.</p>
<p>We hope you will decide to remain a candidate. Over the years, some of our very best students have been admitted from our waiting list.</p>
<p>Again, please accept our congratulations on your outstanding achievements. Whatever your decision may be, you have our best wishes for every future success.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>William R. Fitzsimmons
Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid</p>
<p>Yale’s starts in the same way. It freaked me out, even though I had gotten something v. similar from Cambridge months before, because it looks like a rejection letter if you stop reading in the middle of the first sentence. I usually become illiterate as I read decision letters, so I always stop reading in the middle of the first sentence :).</p>
<p>omg milancad! I thought the same thing…I immediately read that I was rejected until I continued on to the next sentence haha.</p>
<p>Thank you everyone who posted, I needed it for something I was writing!</p>
<p>I hope you make the best out of college regardless of where you are going.</p>