Santa Clara University EA Applicants

midwstmom
Sun, 02 Jan 2011 18:02:05 +0000

kimmy: are you actually waitlisted or deferred? If you’ve been asked to apply regular decision, then you’re still in the pool. I’m new to this but I thought waitlisted were those put on the list after all regular decision admissions made, and as the college learned who was actually enrolling, the school could start admitting from the waitlist. If you are deferred, the stats seem a little better. The SCU letter said, “In recent years, about one-third of students who elected to be deferred were eventually offered admission.” So those odds are better than the ~10% that actually get admitted from the waitlist. So keep your chin up and keep breathing!

There’s also a great post on CC under Admissions Hindsight and Lessons Learned. It’s a very inspirational after-the-fact story. I hope it all works out for you.
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/admissions-hindsight-lessons-learned/1034191-life-goes-somehow-magically-becomes-amazing-read-applicants.html

westcoastlatte: thanks for the waitlist stats. We may want to know them later in the process. :)