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March 23, 2024, 4:03pm
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My son was also waitlisted and I posted this on another thread. It breaks down the WL numbers: TLDR, depending on the year, odds for getting off the waitlist range from pretty good to very slim.
I was looking over Wisconsin’s statement about the percent admitted off the waitlist:
“Although admission from the wait list varies greatly from year to year, over the last three years an average of 28.7% of students on the wait list have been offered admission. We encourage you to join the wait list if you remain interested in admission to UW-Madison.”
What made me curious is that Wisconsin reported only 11 students admitted off the waitlist in Fall 2022. So I did some digging into the data and what follows is a combination of hard numbers + some educated speculation (because Fall 2023 data has not been released) + some basic math.
Short version: For two of the last three years, Wisconsin has admitted only 0.3% of students off the waitlist. In order for their three year average to be 28.7%, last year’s admit rate had to be considerably higher.
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The numbers is green are pure guesswork based on prior years. The numbers is red are based on calculations that combine confir…
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