Wait listed at 7 schools... unusual?

McQueenFiend
Tue, 01 Apr 2014 18:10:25 +0000

This year, I applied to 14 schools total. I was accepted into four (University of Michigan, Northwestern, Brown, and Duke), rejected by three (UPenn, Yale, Stanford), and wait listed by seven (Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, WUSTL, JHU, and UChicago).

Does it seem at all weird or unusual to be wait listed at this many schools? Statistically, the chance of this happening is probably very small. I feel like the WUSTL wait list offer might have been because they thought they weren’t a top choice for me (which was true).

And as for what to do at this point, I am definitely accepting the wait list for H, P, and Columbia, but is it worth it to take the spot on the other four?

Thanks for all your help!