“Students who have been offered regular admission waitlist status are well advised to pay a visit by mid-April, perhaps with a set of recent grades in hand,” says Peter Van Buskirk, former Dean of Admissions at Franklin and Marshall. State specifically why you think the match is a good one and highlight new information.Ĭall to see if you can arrange a campus interview. Send a letter ASAP to the admissions director emphasizing your unyielding desire to attend. If you have your heart set on a college, there are five things you can do to increase your chances of getting off the wait list and accepted to your first choice college: The wait list also allows some schools to generate more revenue by not offering financial aid to anyone rescued from their lists. One major reason why highly ranked schools are placing more students on wait lists because admission administrators are stressing out that ambitious applicants are applying to a very large number of elite schools and they can’t get a handle on which teens would accept an invitation to their school. News & World Report also rewards schools that reject more applicants. Schools want to be in control of saying, “No.” And when they say no to more students, they look more selective which appeals to families looking for elite schools. They’d rather put more students on a wait list and pluck teens off as needed than accept more students and see too many of these teenagers spurn their admission invitation. Schools use their wait lists as a way to manage their admission yield. Lynn O’Shaughnessy on The College Solution blog, explains the college’s rationale when using wait lists: And for highly selective colleges like Notre Dame and Dartmouth, the number of students being offered admission off the wait list is zero. To see any college wait list statistics, click here, type the college name, and select “applying” for the specific college.Īs you can see, the odds aren't good. They offered 12,631 students a place on the wait list 4,457 accepted the place, and only 91 were offered admission. Of those applicants, 16,047 were admitted and 6,505 enrolled. The University of Michigan had 49,776 applicants. They offered 958 students a place on the wait list 695 accepted the place, and only 7 from that list were offered admission. Of those applicants 2,145 were admitted and 1,678 enrolled. Stanford University had 42,167 applicants. They offered 769 students a place on the wait list 213 accepted the place, and only 18 from that list were offered admission.
Of those applicants, 15,381 were admitted and 7,285 enrolled. The University of Texas had 38,785 applicants in 2013. The following are three compelling statistics taken off the website: The College Board offers wait list statistics for any college. So how likely are teens to be taken off the wait list, and is there anything they can do to increase their chances? The Odds of Being Offered Admission A wait list decision does not reject an applicant outright, but it also offers an uncomfortable level of ambiguity about whether an applicant will receive an acceptance to the college later. It’s college decision time and disappointed teens are receiving news they have been placed on the college wait list.
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