I think that some of the schools listed are inaccurate. Fordham, Xavier, Roger Williams and Wheaton all had waitlist or denials on the spreadsheet.
Isnât it possible that even schools with denials / waitlists still ended up with spots after May 1st because people both from the accepted list and the waitlist committed elsewhere? I assume they donât go back to the âdeniedâ pile.
I guess anything is possible - it just seems odd to me for some of those schools where TE was extremely competitive this year to have spots at this point.
It actually seems quite feasible to me especially for schools with highly competitive TEs, because presumably they could award it to top of the top tier applicants. But top of the top tier applicants likely got a bunch of TE and possibly other merit equivalent offers. And people on the waitlist likely committed elsewhere by May 1. Letâs say (hypothetically) Fordham gave out 3; the 3 people they offered it to may have been extremely competitive applicants, and themselves got TE offers elsewhere, maybe full tuition ones even. Or maybe from better ranked schools (BU or GWU). So no takers, and then waitlisted people may have said yes to other schools already, either ones that they preferred, or that they were equally happy with. Voila, empty spots.
Iâm really surprised to see the list of schools with open spots as long as it is too. I think it has to do with the huge mess FASBA was this year and most decision dates being pushed out.
We happen to be on the WL for Xavier, which is one of the schools listed, so I contacted the liaison to see if D24 would be offered a spot. She is out until tomorrow, so Iâll see what she says. She did say in a previous email that those offered spots in the initial round had until May 1st to accept. My guess is TE asks if they have open spots and since not everyone in the initial round accepted, they said yes. (I will say though that Iâve had issues receiving emails from this school so it is possible they sent me something and I never received it.)
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I am one who has a kid as waitlisted for wheaton, but I am CIC only which is always full tuition. When I met with financial aid, she asked if we had TE, because âbasically everyone gets that.â It sounds like TE is a set amount (maybe it replaces merit award) and not full tuition there, so that could explain the situation.
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It varies significantly by school and can also vary by year. One year, we were " need-based" and were not offered it, and another year, we were ânot need-basedâ and did get offered it. We applied to the same school two years apart.
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I saw that Wheaton has âother tuitionâ listed for TE, but without specifics as to what it includes â I assume itâs âset rateâ + some extras? It would be great to know actually what they offer. S25 is interested in it, and we will definitely apply there via CIC (my institution does both CIC and TE), but it would be good to know what the TE is like to see whether to use up one of the 10 spots we get for TE choices for it.
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Schools with no waitlist somewhat negate the âspiritâ of TE is my issue, assuming they have qualified applicants. We did apply âover statsâ for my son (on TE at Pitt), and will for my daughter as well. But we wonât apply just to apply to schools she wouldnât like (again, much easier, as I personally think she would THRIVE at our home institution, DePaul)
My daughterâs first choice is DePaul (on the waiting list). She would love to be your kid 
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Very interesting. I heard from Xavier that they do not have any TE awards to offer. And, the liaison asked me where I saw this information on their site 
. So, it seems we need to take the open spots list with a grain of salt.
I think after this crazy year we all deserve a medal! 
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Not my update, but figured could be of interest to this group (or next yearâs applicants). Coworkerâs daughter was offered TE at Eckerd yesterday (after sheâd already committed to our home institution). Apparently, they only had one offer available for incoming first year students.
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Well bad news for us. After waiting all this time, we were not able to get off the waitlist at DePaul. I will add a denial to the spreadsheet 
Also I just noticed on the spreadsheet mine is completely wrong. I have a bunch of waitlists that I think someone accidentally put under our name.
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Unfortunately that is the downside to a shared doc with everyone having edit access. Someone changed at least one under my name as well. I looked in edit history to see if I could easily change the lines that were changed in error but I cannot figure it out.
Oh well, its ok, at least future TE families can see what schools tend to have wait lists etc.
I do appreciate you putting the doc together. 
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No problem!! I think it was very helpful. I updated my list - three of our entries were deleted. I guess anyone who wants to can go in and double check to see if yours is accurate so next yearâs families will have good information!
Best of luck to everyone!
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@hb2024trackmom @Acpurple22. Can you provide me a couple specific examples of what was wrong in the spreadsheet? I have some older versions and could post one of those in Excel (not shareable). May help others in the futureâŠ
I will go look again and let you know.
On the last one I looked at.
It has Clarkson TE rejected (we never even applied here)
Fordham Waitlist (we never applied here)
Providence waitlist (we never applied here)
St Louis awarded (we never applied here)
Susquehanna waitlist (we never applied here)
University of New England waitlist (we never applied here)
So again I think someone accidentally posted under our user name
Hereâs the spreadsheet from March 12th. Itâs the last version I have that matches how things should look for @Acpurple22. Lost some formatting since I had it initally downloaded in Excel. Hopefully, this link works. Noticed that a number of schools and people were added after this timeframe. Agree that verifying accuracy on the shared sheet is the best way to go for our group, but this could be a good reference as well for future classes.
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After a very long and drawn out waitlist process with multiple check inâs with the TE liaison and the chosen school we finally heard that we have not made the cut. What a stressful experience with an unhappy ending.
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