Waitlist success stories

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741

<p>a friend of mine got off the carnegie mellon university waitlist last week. </p>

<p>ACTIVE WAITLISTS*</p>

<p>Amherst(to take 15)
Beloit College
Boston University
Brandeis
Caltech
Case Western
Carnegie Mellon University
College of Wooster
Columbia
Connecticut College
Cornell (Hotel Administration)
Duke (Apparently quite active)
Emerson
Emory
Fairfield
Franklin and Marshall College
Georgetown University (SFS)
George Washington
Hamilton
Harvard (will take 150-175, no activity so far)
Johns Hopkins
Lafayette College
Miami (FL)
Middlebury
Mount Holyoke
NYU (and Stern)
Northeastern
Northwestern (active, but very little visible activity thus far. 2 week wait. Will take “quite a lot”)
Penn (CAS only? unless someone has heard otherwise…)
Pomona (to take 15-20)
Princeton (To take 90)
Quinnipiac
Reed (10)
Skidmore
Smith
Swarthmore (to take 15-20, started calling)
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)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
University of Notre Dame
Vanderbilt
Villanova
Wake Forest
Washington University
Washington & Lee
Whitman (sending emails on Friday)
Williams
Yale (will take ~45, no activity so far)</p>

742

<p>What is “summer melt?”</p>

743

<p>Anyone knows anything about UMich?</p>

744

<p>Summer melt is when a student pays a deposit to a school by May 1, but then doesn’t show up in the Fall, usually because of accepting a waitlist opening at another school. Hopefully these students notify the first school, so that someone else can take the seat.</p>

745

<p>how many people have heard from MHC? only domestic or international as well?
I am an international, and am still waiting?</p>

746

<p>I think, if the student doesn’t inform the school that they’re off a waitlist, the school will know he’s not coming when he doesn’t pay up the quarter/semester’s tuition</p>

747

<p>Our son got a call Weds. night and was accepted from the wait list for Villanova.
He opted to say no and stick with his University of Maryland College Park Scholars program.</p>

748

<p>about the dartmoth waitlist,how do u know its keeping a short list???are these candidates notified??</p>

749

<p>thanks straight204…
i didn’t hand i an additional rec, but i did send in my new grades and a letter!
( i’m keeping fingers crossed, i jump every time the phone rings…)</p>

<p>have fun at Penn! are you def accepting?</p>

750

<p>Where do you get the active waitlist? Is there a site or just from each schools website?<br>
Thanks.</p>

751

<p>Most likely, soulmates.</p>

752

<p>straight204–what school? and good choice!</p>

753

<p>Does anyone know anything about the status of the Vassar waitlist?</p>

754

<p>Where can you find the acitve waitlist thing? and has anyone heard from Wake Forest? Also, since unc-ch made their first round of people accepted off the waitlist, do you think they will make a second depending on how many people accept?</p>

755

<p>^^^ If you’re asking where we’re gather active waitlist info, we’re just keeping eyes on the forum of colleges that interest us. People there will start posting news articles or even say that they themselves have been accepted off waitlist. Then we come here and add or remove college from list depending on their activity.
We won’t know anything about any further waitlist activity unless the school officially releases information or we start seeing CC users taken off waitlists. According to CC list, Wake Forest is active.</p>

<p>Just for reference on this page, I’m pasting waitlist list. </p>

<p>ACTIVE WAITLISTS*</p>

<p>Amherst(to take 15)
Beloit College
Boston University
Brandeis
Caltech
Case Western
College of Wooster
Columbia
Connecticut College
Cornell (Hotel Administration)
Duke (Apparently quite active)
Emerson
Emory
Fairfield
Franklin and Marshall College
Georgetown University (SFS)
George Washington
Hamilton
Harvard (will take 150-175, no activity so far)
Johns Hopkins
Lafayette College
Miami (FL)
Middlebury
Mount Holyoke
NYU (and Stern)
Northeastern
Northwestern (active, but very little visible activity thus far. 2 week wait. Will take “quite a lot”)
Penn (CAS only? unless someone has heard otherwise…)
Pomona (to take 15-20)
Princeton (To take 90)
Quinnipiac
Reed (10)
Skidmore
Smith
Swarthmore (to take 15-20, started calling)
Syracuse
Trinity University
Tufts (only Int and Engineering, so far, they do not know whether they will have to go the waiting list or not.
Tulane
University of Chicago
University of Georgia
University of Miami
University of Pennsylvania (will take ~90)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
University of Notre Dame
Vanderbilt
Villanova
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></p>

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

756

<p>Does anyone know about Boston College or the other schools at Georgetown, besides SFS?</p>

757

<p>someone on another thread said their friend got into BC on friday…</p>

758

<p>Recently got in at Duke</p>

<p>There is hope!!</p>

<p>good luck everyone!! ^^</p>

759

<p>collegeappwoes, how recent?</p>

<p>are you an international?</p>

760

<p>northwestern is definitely active. i didn’t get a call, but i checked the applicant services website againa and it said i got in. i called the ugadm office just in case and they verified it.</p>