<p>If UChicago will not notify students until May/June who are on the wait-list?</p>
<p>Pretty much all of my other schools ask for a May 1st deadline for Intent to Register, so it’s way too risky for me to rely on my wait-list decision…</p>
<p>Yes, you go ahead and take a spot in a school where you were accepted and want to go. You pay the deposit. If sometimes between May 1st and the first day of classes Chicago admits you off the waitlist you then decide which school to attend. If you decide on Chicago you lose the money you gave to the other school.</p>
<p>Way, way, way too risky.</p>
<p>Look at Bizzy Hemphill’s March 25 admission blog entry. She says in no uncertain terms that waitlisted students should accept another college’s offer and put down the deposit at the other college by May 1. You will lose that deposit if you get taken off the wait list at Chicago and if you decide to go there (two big “ifs”). But relying on getting taken off a waitlist would be crazy. I don’t think Chicago has taken more than 20-30 people off the waitlist in recent memory, sometimes it has been 0 people. There may be more this year, but the waitlist still doesn’t have much better odds than the lottery.</p>