waitlisted (not deferred) ED and nervous

not2disappear
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 22:26:48 +0000

hi! I was waitlisted and not deferred from Wesleyan early decision 1. Wes is still my absolute dream school, and I have no idea what this means and what I should do from here? Does anyone have any idea what an ED waitlist means? Is it better or worse than a deferral? (For reference, both of the other Wesleyan ED applicants at my high school, which tends to send a lot of people to Wesleyan, were straight-up rejected.) I’m feeling nervous about everything right now; I’ve been admitted to 4 schools, but am anxious about other decisions.

some things about me: White female at highly ranked small public school, not incredibly high financial need. I want to be a political science major, with IR and environmental studies minors.
GPA: 93.5/100, almost all honors/AP/dual credit
ACT: 33 (36 E, 36 R, 32 S, 29 M. 10 on essay)
SAT2: 740 on World History, 760 on Lit
AP Scores: (I self-studied all of these APs with the exception of Environmental Science, which I took at school.) AP Human Geo (4), AP World History (4), AP US Government (4), AP Comparative Government (5), AP Environmental Science (5). Will graduate with 10 APs.

Extracurriculars: President of Quiz Bowl, Secretariat of Model UN, Science Research, selected for a program where I shadowed New York State legislators and then founded a youth civic education/engagement club due to my genuine horror about how uninformed we are about politics, voting rights/state government activist, singer-songwriter, in select and regular chorus, high school theater, volunteer tutor, National Honors Society, etc.

my schools:
wesleyan (waitlisted ED1)
UVM (accepted with 23K a year and also got into the honors college)
beloit (accepted with 30K a year, will seriously consider going if I don’t get in anywhere else)
Dickinson (accepted with 22K a year, triple legacy, will seriously consider going if I don’t get in anywhere else)
Whittier (accepted with 31K a year)
Barnard (tied for second choice)
Pitzer (tied for second choice)
Bates (tied for second choice)
Scripps (one of my top choices)
Macalester (one of my top choices)
Oberlin (one of my top choices)
American U (if I get into a specialized program it will be one of my top choices)
Kenyon
Skidmore
Bryn Mawr
Connecticut College
Brown (just for fun)
Whitman

Will I be ok? Has anyone else heard of an ED waitlist? Thanks!