Posponed from madison??

HaroldsMaude
Sat, 22 Jan 2011 15:27:39 +0000

Is it highly likely that they even WILL look at the kids who are postponed? I’ve heard of colleges essentially filling their freshman class with early and regular acceptances and not going to the waitlist/postponed group at all. My daughter was also told the 50-50 chance thing, but I’m skeptical.

There’s a memo on the UW-Madison site dated May 2010 saying that for the fall of 2011 they weren’t taking anyone off the wait list. Now that was last year, and late in the year and it might refer to a list created after the Feb-March review. And the admissions person told me that they don’t use the term waitlist, so I’m wondering if the early applicants are ‘postponed’ but later applicants get put on wait list.

But it makes me wonder how much to get my kid’s hopes up - not just for getting in but also about even being reviewed. Thanks for any info you have on this and Wisconsin’s traditional practices. I’m not skeptical of Wisconsin, per se, just that with steep competition in these schools that kids postponed have a chance.