Housing assignments continue to trickle out. S24, who was admitted off the waitlist, just received his room and roommate yesterday: A double in one of his top choices. In two weeks he attends SOAR and registers for classes.
Just a reminder to those who have or will receive offers that you haven’t missed your chance and you aren’t really “behind” (if you are still interesting in attending Wisconsin). You’ll have to move quickly on Math and English placement tests, but you can also take those the day before SOAR.
Thanks for this info. What dorm did your son get? I was thinking that my son would be relegated to the least desirable dorm or a broom closet haha. Hopefully this means he finds out soon too.
We did SOAR recently. My son had no trouble registering for the classes he had planned to. They open up spots for each SOAR session.
Today is the last day before we send payment elsewhere. I don’t know if she would even accept at this point though. Best wishes for those still hoping.
I don’t mind the EA and RD timelines so much, but it’s been the dragging out of the waitlist. I realize the FAFSA debacle played a huge part in all of this also. My son got outright rejected by some, deferred and rejected by one, but now deferred and waitlisted by UW-Madison with multiple “are you still interested?” with seemingly no real immediate urgency or action thereafter. He finally moved on and rejected the waitlist several weeks ago, and I’m still following this group to see how many of you all are lucky enough to still get in. However, I think this last one has stung him more than the straight rejections or Deferred-Rejection did…
I haven’t heard of anyone being dropped from the Waitlist, so do all those people still have a shot, or are there some that have been strung along with false hope? I think they erred on putting out the 28.7% figure, factual or not, especially since it was so skewed by last year. I know CC, Reddit and FB are just small sample sizes, but just feels like 5-10% max this year… (Just a feel, not factual or any data to support)
It’s past mid July, most schools start a month from now… I just think most if not all waitlisters should’ve received some idea before the 4th of July. Feels kind of like this…
We know one kid from our high school who was deferred then denied, which I thought seemed odd. Then we met another kid at our 2nd choice school orientation last week who was waitlisted then denied. (both these from UW if I’m not being clear).
My son’s roommate (at choice 2) was also a waitlisted and then denied.
Pretty tough process. Disappointing to get two “are you still interested in being on the waitlist?” emails. Def feel lead on.
Still crickets here. We’ve given up entirely—if they wanted to, they should’ve offered a month ago; most schools closed their waitlist in June and now it’s nearing end of July .
My daughter thinks it would be equally hard to say yes or no if UW gave her a full acceptance now. I think that’s an unfair burden to put on a young adult. I don’t want her What if-ing for the next 4 years.
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