<p>Just out of curiosity, does being international really make it harder to get off a waitlist? Do admissions offices deliberately favor locals over out of states, or USA students over internationals (I know that locals can visit more frequently but let’s assume that everybody’s on equal grounds except location)?</p>
<p>Congrats to everybody who got in through the waitlist!!! Good luck to other still waiting (myself included)!!!</p>
<p>Latest update status for Johns Hopkins as of afternoon of 5/9/2008 per Admissions Daniel’s blog:</p>
<p>"WAIT LIST UPDATE</p>
<p>This afternoon (Friday, May 9), the Admissions Committee contacted approximately 30 students who had selected to remain on the Johns Hopkins wait list and offered them a spot in the JHU Class of 2012. Congratulations goes out to those students and we hope you all choose to attend. The Class of 2012 is shaping up to be one of our best ever, and we feel those selected today will make a great addition.</p>
<p>For the rest of you, please understand this is just step one in our process. Because you were not contacted today does not mean you will not be offered a spot in the class in the future. As always, we are quite deliberate in our process regarding the wait list. Everything is tied to the number of students in the enrolling class, and at this time we have slightly surpassed our 1235 enrollment target. Despite being slightly above our target, the Admissions Committee decided today to admit a handful of students off the wait list to increase our enrollment slightly and to protect against the “summer melt.” (Don’t know what summer melt is click here.)</p>
<p>I said it last year and will said it again this year … we have not in the past, and will not this year make any rash decisions. Over the next few weeks, the staff will continue to monitor the numbers and discuss wait list issues. We may decide to admit another round of students off the wait list, or we may determine that the class is sealed. We could also choose to select some students for an extended summer wait list and release all the others. There are a number of options available to us, and we will continue to discuss all of them in relation to our enrollment figures over the coming days and weeks. We hope to have finalized all decisions about the wait list by mid-June. Once we have reached a decision, all students who selected to remain on the wait list will be notified by mail or email. </p>
<p>What we ask of you all now is PATIENCE. We respect and understand the frustration that comes with being asked to wait, and we are placing as much urgency on these wait list questions as possible. However, this takes time. In addition to your patience, we request that you refrain from contacting us to ask about your individual status on the wait list. As I have stated on the Wait List Discussion Thread, we do not rank our wait list. Therefore, we can not field questions from wait listed students requesting an individual assessment of one’s chances of being admitted off the wait list. Your patience and restraint will be appreciated, and once an update is available I will post again."</p>
<p>Looks like couple more got calls from Princeton today around 2:30PM PST - one on the west coast and another East. See posts #48, #49 in Princeton post below:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/princeton-university/501681-waitlist-information-4.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/princeton-university/501681-waitlist-information-4.html</a></p>
<p>sorry i just realized my previous post was pretty dumb</p>
<p>yes, harvard expected their yield to be higher (slaps own forehead)</p>
<p>and I’ve been seeing some H/Y people getting called on other threads, they’re just not posting on this one</p>
<p>On the Mount Holyoke 2012 Facebook group, a few girls are sharing that they’ve been accepted off the waitlist. :)</p>
<p>Anything from Brown yet?</p>
<p>wait is princeton done with its waitlist calls?</p>
<p>Someone just got off the list for Cornell Hotel Administration.</p>
<p>i really hope Princeton’s not done making offers yet…</p>
<p>there’s no way… all 90 in one day?</p>
<p>there are gonna be no offers this weekend are there (since the admissions offices are closed on the weekends)</p>
<p>cubbies, it’s not just one day… adanpry has been accepted on the 6th, and assuming that the 6th was when they started to take ppl off, it’s already been 4 days now… ahhhhhh this is much too painful</p>
<p>i just want to know right now, so i can get myself geared toward thinking about next year - instead of dwelling on possibilities…</p>
<p>same here!!! ahhhhhh this is driving me crazy… but i think the first round of calls have already been made now…</p>
<p>The wait IS killing everybody, but meantime, I guess we all have to be prepared for any possible outcomes. Let’s keep our fingers crossed and pray for everyone still waiting.</p>
<p>Sorry if it’s been asked before (the thread’s lengthy and I couldn’t look through all of it) but does anybody know about MIT’s waitlist?</p>
<p>I called Middlebury… they say they over enrolled on internationals, so unless a lot of internationals go to the Ivys(through wait lists), no internationals will be taken off the wait list… but they might take some domestic students…
kind of sad for internationals(I am one of them)</p>
<p>insaneabd, i know exactly how you feel… i’m also an international waitlisted at Middlebury (as well as many other schools)</p>
<p>People who got into your wait lists this year, what kind of additional stuff did you send to your schools during this waiting period?</p>
<p>I got off the swarthmore’s wait list.</p>
<p>I basically sent an e-mail stating how swat is my definite first choice (and a few sentences on why is that so) and if I get an offer I will definitely enroll.</p>
<p>My guidance counselor also wrote a letter, stating how I performed very well in my IB mock exams and how I’m definitely for LACs as I applied to many school and only one of them was a university (Brown). </p>
<p>and yeah, I’m an intl student</p>