<p>Then how much chance do I have in this case?
And what can I do to enhance my chance?</p>
<p>Call the college and tell them that you are on the waiting list and ask how many people were on the waitlist last year and how many people were accepted off of it. They will readily tell you this.</p>
<p>There are three types of people on the waitlist. Applicants who were put there because they didn’t want to insult legacy parents or somebody else. These people have no chance. There are also applicants who were as good as anyone else, but they didn’t have room for them. It is psychologically easier for adcoms to waitlist someone when they just accepted the person’s virtual clone. These people have practically no chance. The third group are people that they actually think might be accepted if the yield is low.</p>
<p>In general, not many people are accepted off of waitlists. The best thing you can do is to remain in contact and let them know that you are interested and will attend if you are accepted. If you win any awards or can enhance your app, let them know. The important thing, though, is to proceed with life as if you were denied. Some colleges waitlist more people than they accept. Somehow they think that is kinder to waitlist people than just deny them.</p>
<p>I know that you just want to go, but remember that they deny/waitlist the application and not the applicant. Nobody can possibly make an informed decision about somebody else based on looking at a standardized application for perhaps an hour. Fortunately, it won’t have that big an effect on your life. In your case, you mentioned theoretical math (May it never be of any use to anyone.) That means grad school and you can reapply to MIT then. Nobody cares about the undergrad degree anyway.</p>
<p>MIT took no students from the waitlist last year. </p>
<p>It seems a little early to have heard about RD (January application) though - do you mean you were deferred in the EA round? If so, they will consider you again in the regular round, but you should make other plans because the odds are not in your favor.</p>
<p>I am wondering if the OP is talking about the graduate program… no RD applicants have heard whether or not they’ll be waitlisted this year (indeed, the decisions haven’t even been made yet).</p>
<p>That sounds true. Maybe the OP meant deferred instead of waitlisted.</p>
<p>According to another post, the OP is applying to the doctoral program. I don’t have any experience in this area, so I’ll let someone else advise.</p>
<p>To the original poster:</p>
<p>My earlier comments were directed towards undergrad applications. For graduate school applications, being on the waitlist for grad school does actually mean that they will take you depending on how many of accepted applicants choose to attend.</p>
<p>You can contact them and ask how many people are on the waiting list and how many they realistically think will be accepted off of it.</p>
<p>Thanks very much for your advices and information.
I am applying to PhD program.
It seems whether they defered or waitlisted.
I will try to contact the admissions committee for more information.</p>