Waitlisted at WUSTL...do I even stand a chance anywhere else?

longrohnsilver
Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:45:43 +0000

A few people get it on this board. The school doesn’t gain anything by admitting a ton of qualified applicants only to see them attend college somewhere else. By putting you on the waitlist, they get to find out your real interest and lose the people who want to say they got in but don’t want to go there.

It is a good sign if you get waitlisted to washington because it means they want you but need to be sure that you want them. They have not accepted enough students to fill their freshman class.

This is a really really good school that doesn’t need to settle for people who wanted to go somewhere else.

A waitlist to Harvard or Yale is different. It might as well be a no since most of the applicants who get a yes will go there. They don’t have to use their waitlist to figure out who’s for real.