Waitlist success stories

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661

<p>Updating Swarthmore’s activity according to threads from past years</p>

<p>ACTIVE WAITLISTS*</p>

<p>Amherst(to take 15)
Beloit College
Boston University
Brandeis
Caltech
Case Western
College of Wooster
Columbia
Connecticut College
Duke
Emerson
Emory
Fairfield
Franklin and Marshall College
George Washington
Hamilton
Harvard (will take 150-175, no activity so far)
Johns Hopkins
Lafayette College
Miami (FL)
NYU (and Stern)
Northeastern
Northwestern
Penn
Pomona (to take 15-20)
Princeton (To take 90)
Quinnipiac
Reed (10)
Skidmore
Swarthmore (to take 15-20, more info usually comes out around May 15-25th)
Syracuse
Trinity University
Tufts (only Int and Engineering, so far)
Tulane
University of Miami
University of Pennsylvania (will take ~90, no activity so far)
University of Notre Dame
Vanderbilt
Wake Forest
Washington University
Washington & Lee
Whitman (sending emails on Friday)
Williams
Yale (will take ~45, no activity so far)</p>

<p><em>INACTIVE WAITLISTS</em>
Bowdoin College (overenrolled for now)
Carnegie Mellon University
Colby College
Dartmouth (keeping short list)
Lehigh
Middlebury
Rice University
Stanford (for now, although keeping a short list on extended waitlist)
University of Chicago
University of Virginia (overenrolled for now)
Ursinus</p>

662

<p>Syracuse University was my first choice school and when I heard from them, they told me i was waitlisted!!! argggh!!</p>

<p>but i myself together and i hounded them like crazy, calling them everyday, make THEM know YOU. Although, I sent them another esay on how I changed from the application I sent in. Also I asked two of my teachers in my two best subjects at the time: English and AP Biology, to write me a recommendation. Likely on Monday they called me and told me I’m in!</p>

<p>Good luck to everybody! Don’t give up!</p>

663

<p>D got call from UNC-Chapel Hill today</p>

664

<p>Well I just received the good news!!!</p>

<p>Accepted off the waitlist at Duke like 30 min ago!!</p>

<p>Aaaaaahhhhhh!</p>

665

<p>From UNC’s website:</p>

<p>Beginning on May 7, Carolina offered admission to 238 first-year candidates who had previously accepted a place on the waiting list. Admitted students–who were notified by telephone and will begin receiving letters by mail early next week–will have until May 23 to accept or decline their admission. Please note that neither these decisions nor the reply form will be available online. We expect to resolve the waiting list completely no later than June 30.</p>

666

<p>By the way, Penn is active. Two of my friends were just accepted off the wait list.</p>

667

<p>Rennselaer is going to their wait list.</p>

668

<p>someone asked about Miami (OH), sounds like they have gotten confirmations from more students than their target, so probably not going to use their wait list.</p>

<p>see: [Miami</a> University News: News Release](<a href=“http://www.miami.muohio.edu/news/article/view/5157]Miami”>http://www.miami.muohio.edu/news/article/view/5157)</p>

<p>talked to Villanova admissions today, and they said they are reviewing their wait list candidates and will begin calling early next week.</p>

669

<p>Didn’t a guy just say he got off Chicago’s waitlist? Post 659 to be precise. :)</p>

670

<p>Middlebury is close to its enrollment target, but probably will admit at least a few from the waitlist in anticipation of summer melt.</p>

671

<p>Yeah sorry I messed that up. Here is the correct version…</p>

<p>ACTIVE WAITLISTS*</p>

<p>Amherst(to take 15)
Beloit College
Boston University
Brandeis
Caltech
Case Western
College of Wooster
Columbia
Connecticut College
Duke
Emerson
Emory
Fairfield
Franklin and Marshall College
George Washington
Hamilton
Harvard (will take 150-175, no activity so far)
Johns Hopkins
Lafayette College
Miami (FL)
NYU (and Stern)
Northeastern
Northwestern
Penn
Pomona (to take 15-20)
Princeton (To take 90)
Quinnipiac
Reed (10)
Skidmore
Swarthmore (to take 15-20, more info usually comes out around May 15-25th)
Syracuse
Trinity University
Tufts (only Int and Engineering, so far)
Tulane
University of Chicago
University of Miami
University of Pennsylvania (will take ~90, no activity so far)
University of Notre Dame
Vanderbilt
Wake Forest
Washington University
Washington & Lee
Whitman (sending emails on Friday)
Williams
Yale (will take ~45, no activity so far)</p>

<p><em>INACTIVE WAITLISTS</em>
Bowdoin College (overenrolled for now)
Carnegie Mellon University
Colby College
Dartmouth (keeping short list)
Lehigh
Middlebury
Rice University
Stanford (for now, although keeping a short list on extended waitlist)
University of Virginia (overenrolled for now)
Ursinus</p>

672

<p>what school did your friends get into?</p>

673

<p>wow, does this mean Harvard’s yield wasn’t quite as good and Yale’s was better than expected?
or was Harvard just being more conservative?
in any case, 150-175 is a LOT. I was hoping for more than 45 for Yale though.</p>

674

<p>harvard was being conservative, expecting their yield to be higher, when it actually came out to be the same as last year. </p>

<p>haverford is going to take some, but i dont know of anyone taken yet.</p>

675

<p>you mean harvard expected their yield to be lower.</p>

<p>but Yale expected the same and were being conservative too.</p>

<p>both articles say they will start telling people this week. well, it’s friday. how come no one has posted that they’ve been called? Are they doing it over the weekend?</p>

676

<p>Hey for Yale, over on another thread poster, HandsAcrossTime, announced that he/she had been pulled off waitlist. I guess Yale is telling those lucky people today. </p>

<p>Do you think that all 45 students are informed today?</p>

677

<p>Per posts on CC college sites UNC and GA</p>

<p>ACTIVE WAITLISTS*</p>

<p>Amherst(to take 15)
Beloit College
Boston University
Brandeis
Caltech
Case Western
College of Wooster
Columbia
Connecticut College
Duke
Emerson
Emory
Fairfield
Franklin and Marshall College
George Washington
Hamilton
Harvard (will take 150-175, no activity so far)
Johns Hopkins
Lafayette College
Miami (FL)
NYU (and Stern)
Northeastern
Northwestern
Penn
Pomona (to take 15-20)
Princeton (To take 90)
Quinnipiac
Reed (10)
Skidmore
Swarthmore (to take 15-20, more info usually comes out around May 15-25th)
Syracuse
Trinity University
Tufts (only Int and Engineering, so far)
Tulane
University of Chicago
University of Georgia
University of Miami
University of Pennsylvania (will take ~90, no activity so far)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
University of Notre Dame
Vanderbilt
Wake Forest
Washington University
Washington & Lee
Whitman (sending emails on Friday)
Williams
Yale (will take ~45, no activity so far)</p>

<p><em>INACTIVE WAITLISTS</em>
Bowdoin College (overenrolled for now)
Carnegie Mellon University
Colby College
Dartmouth (keeping short list)
Lehigh
Middlebury
Rice University
Stanford (for now, although keeping a short list on extended waitlist)
University of Virginia (overenrolled for now)
Ursinus</p>

678

<p>any news on oberlin?</p>

679

<p>am i the only international who’s not hearing from any of these schools?</p>

680

<p>According to Middlebury’s forum, two people were called today and accepted off the waitlist.</p>