@kenzielouwho , good luck on your AP’s. I hope you get 5’s in all of them. I currently have Physics 1, Calc BC, Chem, and Lit to do, but I am going to focus on getting 5’s in Calc BC and Chem so that I can focus more on physics in college.
Piece of Advice:
Focus more on the AP’s that will help you to get credit so you can focus more on other essentials while in college, in addition to not stressing out.
GOOD LUCK TO EVERYBODY ELSE ON THE WAIT LIST, AS WELL AS YOUR AP’S !!! (:
@Techman24 Ugh thank you !!! I hope you do too!!! Im trying to study hard now ! Good advice and good luck to you!!
@dizzy99 did you indicate you were willing to take a gap year in your loci or otherwise?
Ahhh I got an email from UChicago today and I got those mini-heart attacks but it was just my regional admissions officer replying to my LOCI 
when will this end
@whoo74 How long ago did you send in your letter??
@jpa0115 9 days ago!
@aych1686 Yes, I actually first mentioned it in my EA deferral LOCI, back in December. I figured if I was deferred, it wasn’t super likely that I’d get accepted the second time around, so I mentioned wanting to take a gap year and potentially attend in 2017 (because at that point I realized I wanted one anyway, and it would probably make my chances of getting accepted to Chicago much higher). My regional counselor said he’d keep it in mind, and then when I did end up being waitlisted and sent my second LOCI, I reminded him of wanting to take a gap year and a few weeks later he called me and ta da 
Not sure how much of me being placed on the waitlist was due to that first mention of the gap year back in December and they planned to give me a spot in 2017 all along, or if it was just lucky that I wanted one in the first place and it all ended up working out once they started making their waitlist decisions, but I do think making my intentions very clear from the beginning helped a lot in them finding a spot for me.
I guess Wednesday wasn’t the day after all, as I would expect more calls if it was. Even though CC is a select community, most of the individuals here are highly qualified, and judging by past year’s threads, when the bulk of the waitlist decisions arrive, we would surely hear about a few acceptances here too. So don’t lose hope people!
And all the best for your AP exams
just wondering, what are the chances of getting accepted to just one waitlist? I have 5 at this point, including Chicago… I’m hoping to get into just one of them.
@Bluebrry omg im on 5 waitlists too !!! I feel your pain
@kenzielouwho have washu, vanderbilt, nyu stern, chicago, notre dame here. how about you?
@bluebrry NYU Chicago AmericanU GW Syracuse(for a discovery program idk if that counts)
@kenzielouwho can feel your pain too lol… best luck
@Bluebrry Same here glad to know I’m not the only one on every waitlist :))
i’m also on five… :((
@jpa0115 I was wait listed seven times so I feel your pain!! Luckily I was accepted to Rice so I’ll be going there if Chicago doesn’t come through
So when they’re done releasing decisions about us, do they notify us that they’ve finished accepting all students?
I’m on the waitlist too and I’ve really wanted to go to Chicago.
My counselor sent a letter for me and got something like, “We’re getting a very high yield this year from our admitted students and it is unlikely that we will look to the waitlist and if we do, we’ll know only after May 1” in reply.
Hi there! I just got off the waitlist of UChicago. They offered me a spot for their class of 2021. Hopefully, I can provide some insight to others who are still waiting. It is completely not true that they only wait until after May 1. They have been taking kids off the waitlist for a while now. My good friend got off a week ago and people have posted earlier about getting off the waitlist. The admission representative called me and said that their class of 2020 is completely filled and that they will most likely not have more spots. But he told me that they still really wished for me to join their community and offered me a spot in the class of 2021. So for those of you still waiting on UChicago, think about whether or not you would be willing to take a gap year to go there.
Received a similar email from my counselor as well.
It seems that UChicago’s yield is very, very high this year, which is shown by the absence of many acceptances on this thread prior to May 1. It might be one of those years when the waitlist is barely used; if that is the case, we might be notified of the waitlist’s closure as early as the end of next week. The preliminary estimate was about 80 for waitlist acceptances, but it seems like the actual number may be way lower (this includes the waitlisted people who have already been accepted).
I highly, highly recommend that you take your mind off of UChicago over the next few days and focus on the schools that accepted you. Given the high yield rate, interest in the school will not matter as much as the type of people that the school needs for a balanced class (e.g. a tuba player, a wrestler, etc.). It seems that EA applicants will have the advantage over RD applicants due to implied level of interest (the majority of waitlist acceptances this year have been deferred to waitlisted EA applicants).
One thing that UChicago does is that it courtesy waitlists many people (this may be a way for them to increase application numbers, since a waitlist is commonly seen as an “I’m almost there” for many people). Looking through many of the old threads (as well as the results of students in my school district and neighboring school districts), most of the RD rejections are EA applicants who did not make the final cut, and EA applicants who are waitlisted tend to have the upper hand in the waitlist pool. This does not mean that an RD waitlistee has absolutely no chance of getting in; it just means that it is harder to identify that person’s position within the waitlist pool. They say that the waitlist is unranked, but some posts say otherwise: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/18366292/#Comment_18366292
The waitlist is bigger than you may think, so don’t keeps your hope up. The waitlist size was 2,892 (Source: Niche) three years ago… with the growing applicant pool and dropping acceptance rate every year, this year’s stats should be a lot different. In addition, approximately 78% of users on the CC UChicago thread were waitlisted; I know that CC is not a representative sample of the entire population, but it does bring up some questions…
I don’t mean to turn this negative or anything… I just want to make it more realistic. The chance is still there, don’t get me wrong. It’s just that you shouldn’t depend on it anymore given the high yield rate this year.
Good luck to all!
EDIT: The waitlist seems to be closed already, and some sources online said that it closed around April 20 last week. The admissions officers seem to be giving out gap year acceptances this week, and a formal rejection should arrive on our portals by Friday, May 13th. There will be a few saved for the extended waitlist due to the summer melt. Sorry guys. 