Waitlist Discussion (All Schools) (2022-2023)

[shrewd bane]

it's calm if you dw say lol

[grave aurora]

I'm from a rlly small country but I heard Columbia really likes students from my country so 💀

Idk how many ppl applied from here though

Or how many were accepted

[shrewd bane]

ah nice

[grave aurora]

Not that great for me if everyone else here decided to accept their offers

Since admitting off wl is more about your demographics and stuff than anything else

[stoic herald]

Any idea on when northwestern waitlist comes out?

[final sundial]

Iirc someone said previously that a person alr came off

[winter rain]

sure!

btw this cds is for fall 2021 so the 2021 admission cycle, not for c/o 2026

[shrewd bane]

Ohhh

Then my bad lol

[winter rain]

wl numbers for columbia are

2016 - 86
2017 - 78
2018 - 46
2019 - 55
2020 - 79
2021 - 137

prior to 2016, same number of total admitted on cds as the reported no on ivy day

[shrewd bane]

2022 not released?

[winter rain]

columbia wants to keep their data to themselves for some reason so c/o 2026 stats arent available till summer

i assume last year they had lower acceptance for wl bc of the lack of representation online but then again not everyone is gonna come out and talk about it lol

no one knows how many they put on the wl tho and i've heard a lot of diff things about it, like ive heard that they wl as much as they admit but ive also heard that their admissions process is like yale who waitlists ab 1000 people

if they waitlisted the same amount of admits then they'd be a lot like upenn (who wl'd about 4000, where 2753 accepted a spot on the wl), but upenn has way bigger class sizes like 2400 vs columbia's 1400-1500

so more or less i think there are roughly 1000 offered a place on the wl and maybe like 800-900 on the wl but thats just my wishful thinkng

also for former years columbia would only use the wl from mid-may onwards like they stated, last year was kind of a fluke in that regard meaning high yield possibly

[shrewd bane]

oooh interesting

so if they haven't informed people early this year like they did last year

it could mean quite a few WL acceptances

[winter rain]

yessirrr hopefully at least

i think them emailing us to send in LOCIs was probs an indicator that they wanted more people to be considered coz they have a few spots to fill

and coz columbias got a big ego, they dont wanna be considering those who couldnt be asked to send in a loci

[wise ivy]

Columbia why didn’t you waitlist me

I would have attended,,,

[grave aurora]

wait when did they email us about this??

I mean i submitted one but dont recall them sending an email just to ask for it lol

oh did you mean the email you get after you agree to a place on the wl

[winter rain]

april 17th

it was only sent to those who hadnt submitted their loci

[cunning tartan]

That’s for 2021

[cunning tartan]

Everyone got this email besides me 😭

[cunning tartan]

Ohhhh

[grave aurora]

Ohh no wonder

I had mine submitted before that

[shrewd bane]

do you think it’s bad I submitted after I got the email

I was just trying to take my time to perfect the letter

[cunning tartan]

No

They had a deadline

[winter rain]

nope they dont care at all

i called them and asked and they said it made no difference whatsoever lol

[grave aurora]

oh fr? damn

well but it's good I didn't know that because then I would have procrastinated even harder on the LOCI

[winter rain]

yea so it doesnt matter if you sent it a minute after accepting the spot on the wl vs a minute before the deadline

i think it's because they wont read it till after

[grave aurora]

most likely

just curious clauniy where r u from

[winter rain]

coz theyre not 100% sure about the commitments till after may 1st so that's when they'd start looking at the wl applicants

intl student haha im from hong kong

[grave aurora]

ooo cool!

[winter rain]

but also im a us citizen so idk how they'd categorise me

dual citizenship strong lmao

jk

[grave aurora]

damn dual citizenship?

ah

[winter rain]

not sure they even care tho

[grave aurora]

who knows how much of a role demographics play lol

[winter rain]

it plays a major major role

i think it's about the right demographic for the right major

so like asian males doing cs would not be getting off the wl if they alr have a lot of them from what ik

[grave aurora]

true

[winter rain]

what major r u planning to do

[grave aurora]

not sure how that will play out for intls tho

I'm intl as well lol

[grave aurora]

biochem!

u?

[winter rain]

i think it depends on whether the other intls commit; dont think it's country specific tho it's more likely just continental

ahh nice

im undeclared but my ecs mostly focused on politics, anthro and linguistics

v niche lmaoo

j gotta hope smn w my profile committed to princeton or some other uni hahaha

[grave aurora]

omg no linguistics is cool

i did linguistics in HS too! awesome subject

what kind of linguistics tho :O like sociolinguistics? or more grammar based

[winter rain]

not too sure tbh, im more focused on like interdisciplinary studies which includes linguistics, coz im more interested in culture

hence the anthro haha

my whole thing is a mess im p much a humanities kid who likes polysci, languages and stuff relating to culture and society

[shrewd bane]

Have u guys done anything besides submitting the loci

[bold dove]

i submitted 2 published reports and an additional LOR and got off cornell waitlist

[shrewd bane]

Damn

[shrewd bane]

Reports as in?

Research?

[bold dove]

yeah, kinda

i do an internship where we write reports on certain countries - each are about a page long

[shrewd bane]

Ahh nice

[grave aurora]

They explicitly said they only want a LOCI so

Doing more might actually hurt your chances

[median flare]

Anyone heard from kenyon college? Still waiting

[rustic badge]

day 9 of waiting for mit

[winter rain]

just gave them an update about how some of my projects have gone lol

[spare lichen]

anyone waiting on uc appeals?

[rustic badge]

appeal?

you can appeal on apps?

💀

[thin spire]

depends on school

[rustic badge]

how can you even appeal on application

like

what do you say

you're mistaken, I'm good fit for your school?

[chrome swift]

Purdue wl ?

[thin spire]

its only worth it if theres been significant info changes since you submitted your app

if your app is the same then dont bother usually

[rustic badge]

I see so it's more like reconsideration request

[thin spire]

For an appeal to have merit, it must bring to light new academic and personal information, as well as information pertaining to extenuating circumstances, that had not been present in the application.

When we talk about presenting “new” information, we mean information not already presented in the original application (e.g. classes that were not listed as AP or Honors that should have been, additional coursework, etc.) — information that clearly shows the student to be stronger than had been earlier evidenced. High grades received in the senior year, recently acquired awards or additional extracurricular activities are not a basis for the reversal of a decision since decisions are based on academic information that was available at the time of application.

thats from ucla

i think some non-UCs differ in terms of allowing new ECs in

[rustic badge]

can't you just email them after submitting?

[thin spire]

wdym

like between submit and decisions?

[rustic badge]

"I forgot to mention this"

[rustic badge]

yes

[thin spire]

uhh idk abt for ucs actually

idt they take updates

other than for transfers who have to update their grades in the winter

oh this isnt uc thread lol

then yeah a lot of schools do

just check their site for info

[oak mesa]

waiting on two schools

UCLA and USC

oh and Irvine

[spare lichen]

waiting on uc berkeley ucla and usc

[oak mesa]

major dubs

hopefully it’s a sign

[spare lichen]

i heard irvine has a good success rate

[oak mesa]

yeah same here.. but I wasn’t given much space to appeal 😞

[spare lichen]

how much

berkeley was 500 words

at least ucla was 7000 characters😭

[oak mesa]

like 70 words 😭

did you take advantage of the word count for Berkeley and ucla? 😭

[spare lichen]

Mines was abt a page

For both

[oak mesa]

good

I used like 2 pages for UCLA

[naive ice]

Anyone heard updates from UC Davis

[delicate flame]

jhu!??!

[royal tartan]

Hey do you think it would hurt me if I called or emailed a school about when they’ll release decisions?

[upper wing]

Got into JHU off waitlist though is it better than Rice in premed and cs?

[tulip shale]

Wait, JHU came out?

[tender geyser]

For what it’s worth I switched from committed from JHU to Duke, so hopefully that opened up a spot!!

[upper wing]

ye at least for me

[bitter sedge]

jhu is def better for med

[upper wing]

But for the social life. Is it worth it to give up Rice's environment for JHU environment?

[bitter sedge]

Thats up to u

I probably wouldnt

[upper wing]

Fair, JHU seems kind of depressing

[bitter sedge]

yeah

also baltimore

[upper wing]

True

[terse saddle]

yeah i didn't accept jhu wl spot cause i wouldnt choose it over rice

bc of social environment and baltimore

also how fucked am i if my teacher is too busy to send in my additional lor until this thursday 🥲

alr late af two more days can't hurt

haha...

[cobalt jolt]

has anyone heard anything from upenn 🥲

or vandy 😆

[terse saddle]

i've heard of people getting off vandy i think

not upenn tho

[thin spire]

#1050953827186114581 did

it seems

[tough rose]

i mean appeal at ucla are meant for i forgot to mention this on my original app/messed up on my original app

you aren't supposed to give a whole new story, essay, or even updates like a loci

[royal tartan]

Hey do you think it would hurt me if I called or emailed a school about when they’ll release decisions?

[hoary viper]

on penn's waitlist, according to cc

seems like it's pretty much over

wouldn't be surprised if princeton's full too

oh well guess that call will continue to elude me 😢

[royal tartan]

Does anyone else hate “ holistic” admissions

It’s just sometimes I wish it was way more standardized, so at least I wouldn’t have wasted my time

[pure bolt]

I agree

[royal tartan]

Like I spent thousands of dollars and a hundred hours just to get 1 acceptance and be dicked around by 6 others

If it was more standardized and that I didn’t even stand a chance with 1510 SAT, pretty standard EC’s and 4.58 and like an 3.7 UW.

I can’t even keep holding on to this honestly, I gotta leave this server and this whole headspace and move on

I wish you guys all the best, everyone here seems really nice

[wise ivy]

Hey - lots of love, best of luck moving forward

I do think that the system lets one mistake not define your life, and that is a GOOD THING

[pure bolt]

Hey wishing you the best as well I hope success comes your way :)

[oak mesa]

Nope

[oak mesa]

you don’t even know what I wrote 😭😂

[spiral ivy]

Anything from Wake Forest for anyone?

[terse dirge]

any news on uci and nyu?

[cobalt jolt]

okay i saw that but it makes no sense cus there’s been no emails and usually there’s emails after first wave is done? 😭

[hoary viper]

there have been no waves i believe

[cobalt jolt]

that’s what i thought 😞

idk i just hope there’s an email soon cus the wait is so bad

[delicate flame]

What is ur major

And when did they notify u

[delicate flame]

What was ur major?

Bye that means I prolly am not gonna get off

[upper wing]

Today and Environmental Engineering, but prob gonna switch into a premed/cs type depending on the school

[delicate flame]

What time?

Man

Congrats!!

[upper wing]

9:15 am

[delicate flame]

I applied as chemistry

💔

[narrow slate]

CONGRATS

[kind ember]

Is it worth it to ask your school counselor call your admissions officer at a waitlisted school?

[naive crypt]

🙋‍♂️

[terse saddle]

yas

[cobalt jolt]

slay

[west kiln]

I believe a girl from my school got off the nyu waitlist recently

[sand kettle]

yup, same here

[thin pollen]

Anyone know if Boston Univ has hit up their WL yet?

[spiral ivy]

Wake anything on WL?

[harsh jungle]

LMAO ive been feeding myself that copium since fall

that was for fall 2021 btw not 2022 which was cause of covid inflation i think

[rustic badge]

what is US news scandal

[harsh jungle]

Columbia was manipulating their rankings over the years to bring them to #2 spot and one of their own professors exposed it LMFAOO

then they withdrew and didnt submit data to us news for this year so USNWR only used the data they didn't need to specially get from them and thats why they dropped to #18

[heady escarp]

Hello fellow hopeful people!

[rustic badge]

[supple tulip]

maybe i shouldve responded to my waitlist forms

[heady escarp]

What's erong

[sullen anvil]

Omfg the best news after ap bio 🙏🙏🙏

[kind ember]

Congrats!

[woven vale]

Anyone know chances of Columbia wl this year?

[topaz lark]

Anyone know anything about Umichs wl?

[cunning tartan]

your guess is as good as everyone elses

[heady escarp]

Uhh I'd say

46% until proven otherwise

[kind ember]

rigged if I don’t get in perfectly fair if I do

[cunning tartan]

well some guesses are better than others 💀

[cursive geyser]

anyone here got off UCSD wl?

[oak mesa]

no one in the server I believe

idk tho

havent been active

[woven vale]

guys does columbia take any additional info after the mandatory loci?

[gleaming monolith]

UCSD accepted people today?

[cunning tartan]

they specifically said to only send LOCI

[grave aurora]

You can certainly try but it'll probably only lower your chances

[delicate flame]

Ppl who got off the waitlist for jhu/or any school did you guys send anything other than a LOCI

[upper wing]

Nah, just a loci

[winter rain]

not sure but i have heard success stories of people getting off the wl after sending another loci (in email format) with significant updates after the original loci

if nothing interesting/significant has happened since you submitted ur loci it would be best to just not send anything as it wouldn't add anything interesting to ur application

[woven vale]

Is this from last year?

[winter rain]

past few years

[delicate flame]

when did u submit?

[rustic badge]

day 11 of waiting

[heady escarp]

We in this together inshallah 🙏

[upper wing]

When they asked it, so a couple days after getting WL

[rustic badge]

🙏

which university are you waiting for

[heady escarp]

Purdue

It feels like it's been a few months

[rustic badge]

It's been 2 months since I learned I got waitlisted

[heady escarp]

Wait NVM it's been a month, not 11 days

[rustic badge]

well it will be 2 months in 3 days

[heady escarp]

Damn

What uni

[rustic badge]

MIT

pi day 💀

[heady escarp]

oooooo goodluck!!!

[sullen anvil]

I sent in one loci after waitlisted and an update and another update with photos and an official letter from the org I did work with

Worked for BC for me

[rustic badge]

good luck to you too

[winter rain]

looks like penn's waitlist is full this year guys 😖

[brittle hound]

could u send a ss of the email @winter rain

[winter rain]

someone on reddit posted this email update

“Dear…..,

Thank you for your continued interest in Penn and ongoing patience throughout the admissions process.

Now that May 1 has passed and we are gaining a clearer picture of enrollment for the Class of 2027, we would like to provide an update on the wait list. At this time the class is full, but we anticipate limited movement on the wait list in the coming weeks with the goal of completing the class by early summer.

As you continue on the wait list, we welcome additional information that may shed new light on your candidacy since the time of application. If you would like to provide an update, please do so in your Penn Applicant Portal. If you no longer wish to remain on the wait list, you can also update your status in your portal.

As a reminder, if you anticipate applying for financial aid, please carefully review the list of required submissions by consulting the appropriate Student Financial Services checklist. You can check the status of your financial aid application status and materials by navigating to the financial aid area of your Penn Applicant Portal. Our process is need-blind for citizens and permanent residents of the US, Canada, and Mexico, but having complete financial aid information will ensure timely aid awards in the event you are admitted from the wait list.

It has been a pleasure getting to know you during this process and we hope to be in touch soon.

Sincerely, Penn Admissions”

[winter rain]

didn't apply to penn so im not on their wl

[brittle hound]

👍

[winter rain]

looks like yield is high for the ivies this year

i wonder when columbia will give us an update

a few people got off princeton's wl tho according to reddit

[brittle hound]

yea one person in here jus got off this morning

[winter rain]

i see. which unis are u waitlisted at?

[shrewd bane]

so columbia doesn't?

[winter rain]

it probably is high lmao i think columbia will release waitlisted applicants in the next week or so if i had to guess

[shrewd bane]

yea yea true lmao

i was being sarcastic about Columbia not being an ivy 😭

[winter rain]

hopefully people care about the us news rankings and dont go to columbia AHHAHA

[rustic badge]

I hope people select ivies instead of mit

[wise valve]

Why

Oh are you waitlisted

[chrome swift]

When is it coming ?

[uneven rampart]

Hello what are some of the schools that haven't sent a decision yet

I'm just waiting for SIT

[heady escarp]

June 30 is the last date but I don't really think I'll get off

[toxic flame]

Did you receive a form in email today ?

[bronze oak]

wait this is a really dumb question but what do you put in the subject line when you email a letter of continued interest

[heady escarp]

I could submit it in the application portal, so check there, otherwise just write Letter of continued interest

[rustic badge]

Name | Waitlist Updates

or Name | LOCI

or something formal like that

I didn't have to email but if I had to I'd probably do something like that

and maybe write my reference number too

[pastel knot]

i wrote "Waitlisted applicant update"
and if i sent more emails i used "Waitlisted applicant update (2)" "Waitlisted applicant update (3)"
i would not include the reference number in the subject, but in the mail. i used this for my LOCIs:

Dear [University] Admissions Committee,

I am [full name], my Admissions ID [this is for Duke, in Wesleyan its called Reference number and in Vassar its Applicant ID; search it in your portal] is [number/code] and I was placed on the waiting list for the Class of 2027.

[rustic badge]

Yea I meant mail

[kind ember]

If you’re emailing it directly to your admissions counselor then you might want to write “Dear [Counselor Name],” but if it’s through a portal or just to general admissions committee you can do “Dear [School] Admissions Committee,”

[hoary viper]

me who begins the email with a hello🧍

used to write super formal uptight emails but noticed that the folks who reply to me are so casual about it

they're like hi thank you i have added this to your file :)) have a great day bye

[pastel knot]

Yeah true

[pastel knot]

Yesss

Colleges who reply and say "have a nice day": 😃
Colleges who don't reply ☹️

[storm ore]

Any update on Columbia Waitlist? 😭

From what I have seen in CC if the class is full they will announce it today

[upper wing]

I hope it isn't

[bronze oak]

how do you find this?

[rustic badge]

on application portal

[bronze oak]

ohhh okok

TYSM

[rustic badge]

no worries

[delicate flame]

hey guys i need advice, i want to send a follow up email to jhu about a magazine im working on and send them the spread that i have but on their website they stated "Please do not send items such as: Additional letters of recommendation, writing samples, research or term papers, or other supplemental materials like CDs, slides, or portfolios."

so should i not?

im also a finalist for another scholarship so i could add that

[wise ivy]

do not send them the spread you have

they explicitly said not to so don’t

[upper wing]

tbh I wouldn't at this point. Maybe if it was earlier, but they already sent out their first round of people that they will accept, so they prob won't accept any more unless more people reject, which is possible. At this point you just kind of got get lucky and have a person who is a chem major say no

[jade cradle]

I experienced something similar this week and decided to email my AO to ask if would be possible to add information, I am also a finalist for a really competitive scholarship in my country and I discovered after submitting my LOCI. My AO ended up being very supportive, congratulated me and added the info to my application. That said, idk about jhu but I wanted to share my experience. I believe that sometimes it's OK to ask to your representative an opinion about what are trying to add.

[woven vale]

May I ask which school

[jade cradle]

Nyu and Columbia, I've spoken with my AOs this week and both schools added the information

[woven vale]

Oh god how I wish Columbia would take me already

[jade cradle]

Same.

[delicate flame]

I mean it’s just three pages and it’s gonna be published in 92 libraries

But

Maybe I’ll just tell them abt the scholarship

[delicate flame]

Should tell them abt the second scholarship ??

What if I tell them that they don’t have to add, I just wanted them to see what I was up to?

[delicate flame]

😭why does everyone wanna do chem at jhu

Man

I should’ve done smth less competitive but it’s JHI

everything alr competitive

[upper wing]

NYU is still a great place though

[delicate flame]

Don’t make me sadder

😕

[upper wing]

sorry

[delicate flame]

I saw two bare asses on the MTA alone this week

It’s getting UNBEARABLE in New York

[delicate flame]

I’m kidding, I’m very lucky to get into nyu

[upper wing]

LMAO

[delicate flame]

It’s just the CITY part

[upper wing]

Is Baltimore much better though...

?

[delicate flame]

It’s better than seeing naked people on the subway pooping ..

☠️☠️all that shit u see on TikTok abt New York is very true

😭I RMBER during Covid this homeless man told me I was going to hell cuz I got the vaccine, worry abt urself not me ☠️☠️

[upper wing]

LMAO

Well, I hope you get in! Though, I think that NYU is still a sick school

[delicate flame]

Thank u! Even if I don’t, I’m happy u did! Have fun at jhu❤️❤️

Live out my dreams!!

[jade cradle]

that's basically what I've told them by the end of my email and they asked me if I wanted to add the info

[glossy musk]

any Columbia admits from WL yet?

[brittle hound]

i heard columbia doing it soon

probably 15th

[glossy musk]

Ohhh cool

How’d you find out?

[brittle hound]

@craggy shoal want to explain

[craggy shoal]

UNIs are out

but not publicly shared yet

[glossy musk]

wait

Like you can look them up?

sorry idk how all of this works 💀

appreciate the help

@craggy shoal

[craggy shoal]

well if ur committed yea not sure how else

[glossy musk]

ohhh I see

so how’d you find out about UNIs being processed

[hardy arrow]

is there evidence that columbia might get back to waitlisted students before May15th? i doubt it now since it's the weekend but still

[brittle hound]

probably not happening

[shrewd bane]

not before 15th

[shrewd bane]

what are UNIs

[craggy shoal]

columbia email and internal identifiers

[shrewd bane]

oh

could you explain how that relates to the waitlist

[craggy shoal]

they usually send out an official email for this

it’s been up for a few days

they released transfer apps yesteday

they haven’t sent the official email

[shrewd bane]

oh

so all it tells you is that waitlist decisions are coming soon?

[craggy shoal]

No i have no clue about waitlist all i know is transfer apps were released and i can log into all of the columbia systems now

[shrewd bane]

oh interesting

[craggy shoal]

and they made us wait until yield was all calculated and stuff for that

most wls have closed

we just recently got access

[shrewd bane]

ahh okay

[terse saddle]

wait for duke i uploaded in portal huh

[south light]

case western literally never updating their waitlist 💀

[pastel knot]

thats fine, they will read it, but i also sent a mail just in case

[tough rose]

duke, portal upload is the way they ask

[keen fable]

yep, portal is all u need

[wise ivy]

Did Columbia wl come out???

I think someone at my school got in

[hardy arrow]

Can you confirm?

[cunning tartan]

today?

[toxic flame]

Anybody heard from SIT?

Or NYU tandon!

[hardy arrow]

God this is so agonizing!!

[final sundial]

off nyu today but not tandon 💀

[wise ivy]

All I saw is a post to his insta story saying “Columbia AND Berkeley??” And as far as I know he had committed to Berkeley May 1

[hardy arrow]

Hmm. Seems suspicious. There was somebody else on the Reddit who said he got an email from Columbia rejecting him at this stage.

[cunning tartan]

gonna need more of a confirmation on that chief

[wise ivy]

That’s why I ASKED if Columbia WL came out I didn’t SAY that it did

[hardy arrow]

let's also not get our hopes up because they accepted literally 0 people last year off the waitlist

i am pretty sure they will accept some people this year because I have a couple of firends who got in but turned down their offers

[uneven rampart]

No I didn't hbu

[toxic flame]

They sent me a form titled waitlist "final push" asking if im still interested

Not sure what does that mean

[hardy arrow]

sounds promising

[naive ice]

Davis anyone?

[craggy shoal]

^ this

this is true

yield seems average or poor this year

but not sure

[upper wing]

It's prob because of the US new scandal

[hardy arrow]

definitely

because that was the reason i didnt apply ED...

[hardy arrow]

me for now

[coarse kestrel]

hey there buddy. nice to see you again

[hardy arrow]

There. is. no WAYYYY

what a coincidence

[naive ice]

Oh you heard back ?

[hardy arrow]

yea I got into davis so ive committed there.

[naive ice]

like waitlist? or normaL/

[cunning tartan]

kk

[hardy arrow]

normal

[hazy wharf]

wait how dyk? they don’t say on the common data set

[hardy arrow]

they sent out a letter early in the waitlist process saying that their class was full and that everyone save for a select few would be released from the waitlist. The "lucky" few were put on an extended waitlist that lasted through the entire summer

kind of like what is happening with Penn now

[hazy wharf]

did you see that on reddit or smth?

[winter rain]

they're probably not gonna do that this year seeing as they would have sent it yesterday if they really wanted to

[winter rain]

you can see it in the channel 'the medium place' on this dc server and also on college confidential i believe

[hazy wharf]

thank you!

[winter rain]

i guess the only relevant thing is whether the guy you mentioned seems like the type to cap about these types of things lol

[wise ivy]

idts

[hardy arrow]

lmao everyone is calling cap on this guy

[coarse kestrel]

LOOOOOL

i’m going to be in SoCal

so quite close to you

[winter rain]

HAHA not quite calling cap, it's just that when you're posting it on ur insta story u can't really be lying right ;-;

the amount of bullshit u'd have to go thru just for a temporary ego boost/call for attention is just not worth it for most lol

[winter rain]

do you happen to know what he's majoring in btw ?

[hoary viper]

wait penn has an extended waitlist?

whatt

[wanton tundra]

did you receive the penn waitlist update email?

[hoary viper]

yeah. did you?

i think everyone received that email, no?

[wanton tundra]

Yeah, but I don't know what I 'm supposed to send in the update

Guess they will accept very few student off the waitlist

[hoary viper]

wait, you're supposed to send in an update? lol

[wanton tundra]

They said they "welcome" additional info

[hoary viper]

ive already sent them north of 2000 words on my app and 600 words on my loci and yet they still want more?

nah, i'll pass

[wanton tundra]

I'll do the same

[hoary viper]

update or no update, they're not accepting my ass

bye penn ❌

[toxic flame]

Don't they get bored of reading 😐

[winter rain]

i guess they're keeping their wl semi-open in case there's movement on the hypsm waitlists

[glass night]

Sent GT an update for WL cause I got a rely good internship related to my major for summer and they said they can’t update files anymore, not complaining nd understandable but 😔

[hardy arrow]

This definitely happens. I have a friend whose brother got into Yale off the waitlist after going to Duke for a week

[tough rose]

💀

[hardy arrow]

He ended up actually going to take

Yale

[winter rain]

so like the waitlist response came in september? LMAOOO wtf

[hardy arrow]

Yea it was what I’d informally known as the extended waitlist

[winter rain]

ohhhh damn

[pastel knot]

wtf

[heady escarp]

lmao what

[teal yarrow]

ayo what

[cobalt jolt]

my friend got off of it last week

[faint orbit]

Anyone received any updates regarding the wailtist from Pomona, Carleton, Kenyon or Connecticut College?

[rustic badge]

day 14 of waiting for mit

[median flare]

Not yet

Im waiting on kenyon

[terse saddle]

what do i do if i'm going to be in china over the summer and might not be able to see emails or calls from waitlists 💀

on the very slight 0.000001% chance

[tough rose]

vpn bruh

[terse saddle]

ok still my phone tho

like what if they call first

[boreal zenith]

@terse saddle WAIT DID U GET WAITLISTED FROM MIT TOO

[terse saddle]

no 💀

[boreal zenith]

oh

its ok i got hard rejected everywhere else

[terse saddle]

what 😭

[boreal zenith]

what r u waiting on

[terse saddle]

what does everywhere else mean

[boreal zenith]

ok well

i still did good

[terse saddle]

LOL

mhm...

[boreal zenith]

like everywhere except cornell and cmu rejected me

.

[terse saddle]

bruh

what major r u

[boreal zenith]

engineering

probably bioe

• ece

[terse saddle]

either slays for that right idk anything abt eng programs

[boreal zenith]

yeah both r v good

[craggy shoal]

did you apply to safeties

[boreal zenith]

but cornell is better for bioe and cmu is better for ece

however

[terse saddle]

i had 4 accepts out of 20

LOL

[boreal zenith]

cornell is in ithaca

[terse saddle]

uga gt rice willy

[boreal zenith]

no its ok same

[craggy shoal]

i only had 2/13

[boreal zenith]

i went 4 for 18

[terse saddle]

6 waitlists 💀

[boreal zenith]

gt is so good i shoulda applied

i got sm waitlists from mid ucs 😪

where did u get waitlisted from

[craggy shoal]

i was so sad when i got rejected from gt

[terse saddle]

tbf gt and uga were safeties for me bc im guaranteed gt bc of an in state program thing

that was such bad timing of message my bad 💀

[boreal zenith]

LOL

the shade

[terse saddle]

in state shit for gt is crazy

[boreal zenith]

yeah

[terse saddle]

harvard jhu upenn duke vandy emory wled me

[boreal zenith]

im still salty i got rejected in state berkeley

like berkeley is acceptance rate is 20% or something

literally everyone but me got in from my school

wtf

[boreal zenith]

i got rejected from jhu and upenn 😭

[terse saddle]

i got rejected from mit 😋

[boreal zenith]

i also got rejected from ucla brown princeton

ok but the difference is

[terse saddle]

yass 🤝

[boreal zenith]

mit does not let off the waitlist lmaoo

[terse saddle]

ok upenn is full.

i didn't even accept jhu wl

[boreal zenith]

i think princeton wl -> a is 15%

[boreal zenith]

WHAT

why

i like jhu :,(

[terse saddle]

i don't that much

[wise ivy]

got rejected Harvard Yale Princeton Columbia lollllll

[boreal zenith]

ok its in b*ltimore which sucks

[terse saddle]

idk i would be choosing between rice and jhu and despite whatever rankings i like rice a lot better

[wise ivy]

Only WL swat but they barely let in off waitlist

[boreal zenith]

i regret not applying to caltech

[terse saddle]

jhu sounds depressing AF!!!! compared to rice

and i'm premed

sooo

[boreal zenith]

wait jhu premed is absurdly good tho

[terse saddle]

yeah but it's also depressing

[wise ivy]

Ywah^^^^

[terse saddle]

rice premed is amazing as well

[wise ivy]

Doesn’t rice have a BSMD

[boreal zenith]

yeah but lowk jhu is like another level

i mean

[terse saddle]

idk i'm not bsmd

[boreal zenith]

idk that much about rice

ngl its in texas

[terse saddle]

rice med school placement is good

[boreal zenith]

like ew

[terse saddle]

and i liked houston when i went

[boreal zenith]

ah

[terse saddle]

williams was my other main option and their placement was better

but i chose rice still bc of environment

[boreal zenith]

i mean yeah one of my friends goes to rice and she rly likes it

[terse saddle]

i just felt like i'd actually be relatively happy there

[boreal zenith]

i guess

i really only got accepted to the most depressing schools

[terse saddle]

💀

my friend at cornell does not seem that depressed

she's cs

[boreal zenith]

oh

[terse saddle]

i think

or something like that

[boreal zenith]

i feel like

cornell has a very particular quality to it that matches with some people and completely turns off others

i feel like i need to be in an urban setting to survive

and not feel confined to a single area

[terse saddle]

real

wait what did u choose

[boreal zenith]

cmu

[terse saddle]

oh slay

[boreal zenith]

yeah

cmu grind culture is so scary though

[terse saddle]

yeah

💀

have fun

[boreal zenith]

sadlkfmvd

mit please accept me

[terse saddle]

i mean i'm sure there r ppl who r more chill

but my friend had a friend who went there and he would never have time to do anything on break cause he'd just be grinding

the entire time

on break

[boreal zenith]

oh 😭

scs kids

[terse saddle]

LOL yeah he was

[boreal zenith]

i feel like engineering kids have it easier

[terse saddle]

the other girl ik there is scs too and she's like insane

yeah prob

[boreal zenith]

yeah scs kids are scary

[terse saddle]

ik someone going for like linguistics and he's not the kind of guy who is grind-culture-type at all

[boreal zenith]

LOL WAIT

ur from atl right

or no

[terse saddle]

no i'm not but the guy i'm talking about is

[boreal zenith]

bc i know someone from atl whos going to cmu for linguistics

[terse saddle]

LMFAOOOO

AHHAHAHA

WAIT

NO WAY

[boreal zenith]

alex xu or something

i forget

[terse saddle]

YEYS

LOL

that's him

[boreal zenith]

LOL

[terse saddle]

that's so funny

[boreal zenith]

yeah that is

wtf

i dont understand cmu for linguistics but go him i guess

[terse saddle]

same

[boreal zenith]

he could probably transfer into stat/ml

[terse saddle]

yeah

or like

do linguistics + cs

[boreal zenith]

yeah

stat/ml is the same college as linguistics tho

[terse saddle]

that's what i was thinkng when i saw that

ahhh

[boreal zenith]

and it wouldnt be a double major

[terse saddle]

idk how cmu works

[boreal zenith]

yeah its interesting

[terse saddle]

the circles of connection between all the t20 kids i know is so crazy sometimes

[boreal zenith]

i feel like its a lot like cornell

with the different colleges and the difficulty to transfer into some majors

[terse saddle]

like i feel like i am in these writing circles and these stem kid circles partially and then i just???? see people from both circles just posting each other because they're all going to harvard together.

[boreal zenith]

😭

i didnt even apply to harvard

[terse saddle]

and i'm like .. oh crazy ..

[boreal zenith]

i was like yeah i have no chance

and its not like harvard eng is that good anyways

[terse saddle]

i'm dying i asked my teacher to submit her additional lor for me AGESSSS AGO

and she still hasn't

😭

i'll email her tmrw

[tough rose]

@terse saddle what wls you on?

[terse saddle]

i was going to today but i was like nah she's busy it's mother's day

[boreal zenith]

like u feel like everyone is going to a t10 but stuff like this makes u realize how small the number of t10-bound kids is

[boreal zenith]

real

[terse saddle]

um the only one i rlly rlly care about is harvard

not 100% sure i'd choose duke upenn or vandy over rice

i declined emory and jhu

for wl

[boreal zenith]

duke is so cliquey

[boreal zenith]

for harvard?

[tough rose]

rice is already insane oml

[terse saddle]

yeah but also for my other wls

[boreal zenith]

is that a thing

oops

[terse saddle]

yea i mean some ppl do it

not everyone tho

[boreal zenith]

i probs should have done that for mit

[terse saddle]

i read my initial recs bc my teachers were cool w it

[boreal zenith]

same for some of my outside recs

[terse saddle]

and a lot of it was just academic praise bc that's what they're used to writing ig but there wasn't a lot about character/community impact

so i asked her to write a second rec expanding on that

[boreal zenith]

ya i feel like thats what harvard almost exclusively looks at

gl

[terse saddle]

and like i run an org with her

that like. is essentially all about community impact

that i like did not rlly talk about much on my initial app

so hopefully this helps

and is not too late 💀

[boreal zenith]

when does harvard waitlist start

also wahts wl -> a acceptance rate

[terse saddle]

idk

who knows they might not even like

do anything

[terse saddle]

nobody knonws

they dont release wl numbers 💀

[boreal zenith]

bruh i heard mit ug housing is full but theyre taking an unusually long time to release results which is making some ppl theorize like

theyre taking from the waitlist

bc when they arent it always comes out before like 5/9 or 5/10

and its 5/14

oh my god what if they do like guaranteed transfer option

ok i need to stop being delusional

[boreal zenith]

wtf

[terse saddle]

LOL

[boreal zenith]

isint that like csd

cds

[terse saddle]

huh

[boreal zenith]

thats so not cool of hravrd

common data set

[leaden bone]

after may 15

[boreal zenith]

oh

[leaden bone]

also yeah they are stupidly secretive for no reason

makes no sense but its harvard so ig it flies

[boreal zenith]

ok the thing is

mit

alternates between 0 people off and taking people off

like the year before this it was 0

then the year before that it was 30

then the year before that it was 0

then the year before that it was like 25

so idk

[leaden bone]

well if that pattern holds true then id say u still have a shot

keep ur head up king

[boreal zenith]

praying

there are like 500 ppl on the wiatlist tho LOL

im fucked

[terse saddle]

that's not that many tho like comparatively

like

ok

[leaden bone]

yeah

[terse saddle]

30/500

damn bro

ayo

[leaden bone]

thats pretty good

compared to other wls

[boreal zenith]

hopefully

actually there might be 600 or 800

idk

it was some number between 500-1000

as always

[leaden bone]

like fucking dartmouth which has not used their wl the past 2-3 years and still bothers waitlisting people

[boreal zenith]

but i heard that supposedly a lot less ppl got waitlisted thsi yr

[boreal zenith]

yeah lmao

[terse saddle]

dartmouth ???

[boreal zenith]

the real fake ivy

[leaden bone]

i mean it could be placebo

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[boreal zenith]

wdym

[leaden bone]

i think the number of wl students stay rougly the same each year

[boreal zenith]

oh yeah also my grades right now are so awful lol

[leaden bone]

senioritis 🤩

[boreal zenith]

their acceptance rate this year did go up though

when usually every year is a record low

i think it went up by either half a percent or a full percent but icr

[leaden bone]

still abysmally low

[boreal zenith]

so maybe they expanded their class

[leaden bone]

idk i hope the best for u

[boreal zenith]

well yeah obviously its mit

[leaden bone]

🙏

[boreal zenith]

thx

[boreal zenith]

thats the thing tho like i probably scared them off with my Cs

[leaden bone]

c's?????

bro

[boreal zenith]

yeah

[leaden bone]

aint no way

at least get em to a b 😭

[boreal zenith]

i mean doesnt matter now

mit probably already saw my grades

and cmu doesnt rescind unless u get Ds or Fs

[leaden bone]

ah

[shrewd bane]

I went 7/21 in acceptances 🤣

3 safeties 3 reaches 1 target 🙏

[rustic badge]

I doubt so

They have renovation

They even could make it smaller

Although I'm hopeful they'll take many from waitlist

Not because of 0 pattern

Because they admitted a lot less because they assumed yield would be high

For they to take 0, yield should be higher than last year

And I don't see any reason for it to be higher

Sadly, I'm an international. My chances are even less

[bitter sedge]

I went 10/41

1 safety 🙏

9 reaches

[shrewd bane]

Dayum

Amazing

[shrewd bane]

loopy why’d you get banned from club northeastern

[bitter sedge]

@robust frost Got mcmad and banned me

[shrewd bane]

sadge

[cobalt jolt]

BRO FR IM SO SCARED 😭

[rustic badge]

I hope this is a lie (from mit waitlist thread)

😭

[hoary viper]

i went 1/19 😎 living life on the edge

[rustic badge]

I went 0.5/9 lmao

[shrewd bane]

It’s mit bro

What do u expect

Their yield is like 85%

They probably overadmit it by 10-12%

leaves v few spots

[rustic badge]

that's exactly why I wouldn't expect interviewer to give info

[tough rose]

amherst but no safeties 😭

[hoary viper]

had a safety back in my home country

[rustic badge]

MIT released... I think...

I'm scared of opening though

[prisma trench]

GL GL

What did it say?

[rustic badge]

I didn't open yet

I'm so scared

MIT is the only uni I have left

if it's rejection too then I'm done

[terse dirge]

Where r u committed to rn

[rustic badge]

nowhere

I got 8 rejections and 1 waitlist

[terse dirge]

Good luck dude

[rustic badge]

thanks

I really hope it's not rejection otherwise it'll really be sad

I don't have anything else to look forward to

[upper wing]

U got this!!

[boreal zenith]

"Thank you for your patience during our admission committee process. I am very sorry to tell you that we are unable to offer you admission to MIT.

The competition for admission this year was exceptionally tough—virtually all of our applicants did well in rigorous academic programs with superb levels of individual achievement outside of the classroom. With so few spaces available, we were unable to offer admission to many of our outstanding applicants.

We've gotten to know every student on our wait list at a very deep level, and I can say with certainty that you are a spectacular young scholar with a bright and profound future ahead of you.

I wish you the very best in all of your future endeavors."

CMU of the east right guys??

[upper wing]

Lol so true

[hardy arrow]

Praying for you bro

[upper wing]

I mean u got WL at MIT and that in itself is an achievement. You always have an transfer option and gap year. You got this.

[boreal zenith]

isnt transferring to mit nigh impossible

especially from an already reputable institution

[hardy arrow]

Isn’t cmu cmu of the east

[boreal zenith]

mit is further east

its a ref to a shirt cmu students made

[rustic badge]

I wanted to take a gap year but I won't really have an update. I wanted to get another IOI medal but team selection test was very poorly prepared so my chance for that is ruined

and without much change, I think getting accepted in gap year would be very hard

[boreal zenith]

man @rustic badge

just rip off the bandaid

if u won ioi u probs got in

[hardy arrow]

Have you checked?

[rustic badge]

no

[terse dirge]

Pretty sure some colleges still accepting apps

[rustic badge]

I didn't, I have silver

[hardy arrow]

The fact that you got an email is pretty good news

Since they release the waitlist collectively

[boreal zenith]

yeah if u got an email

thats weird

[rustic badge]

I'm international and I think most with full aid is closed

[boreal zenith]

i didnt

just open it

[hardy arrow]

We can countdown for you

[rustic badge]

I didn't get email

[prisma trench]

Bro u got this

[boreal zenith]

u probs got in lmao

[teal yarrow]

just check!! you bean

[rustic badge]

I just randomly checked

[prisma trench]

I believe in u!!

[hardy arrow]

1

[rustic badge]

the website

[boreal zenith]

bruh i wish i could like

post images

theres a shirt cmu students made that says "mit: the cmu of massachusetts"

[terse dirge]

Why can’t u post

Images

I can

[boreal zenith]

i just cant

idk why

[hardy arrow]

Open

[rustic badge]

rejected 👍

you guys said email

so I opened gmail

and they sent from mail too

[hardy arrow]

Rip

[rustic badge]

so I got spoilered by gmail 👍

[hardy arrow]

I’m sorry man

[boreal zenith]

@rustic badge where else did u get in?

[upper wing]

You still got options. If you take a gap year, you can build your resume or do what you want! The next year is what you make of it

[rustic badge]

nowhere

[boreal zenith]

oh shit

[rustic badge]

yes

I hate this

[upper wing]

You can try to appeal applications

[rustic badge]

I never heard mit appeals

[upper wing]

But other college are allowed, and it doesn’t hurt to try

[rustic badge]

do they still take them though?

it's been a long time

[proud sky]

@rustic badge what happened

[rustic badge]

got spoilered by gmail

[rustic badge]

.

[proud sky]

oh oops i didn't scroll down 😭

[upper wing]

I would at least try

It worth the effort

[boreal zenith]

i want to die

fuck me

[proud sky]

i.. don't think this is a thing?

this is only for some colleges who offer it

like, UF had an appeal which i used, but that's rare and it has an established process

[upper wing]

Some of them have options though, so it might be worth it to try

[narrow slate]

just got rejected by mit too😭

[amber valley]

metoo😭

Lemme change the username

[rustic badge]

What is the most painless way of getting 0/1 k/d ratio

Or most painful, I don't cate at this point

[amber valley]

Are you intl? @rustic badge

[rustic badge]

Yes

[amber valley]

Metoo😭

[rustic badge]

And I don't have anywhere to go

I can go local but after being this close I'm 100% sure I won't be happy there

[amber valley]

I’m sorry🥹

[prisma trench]

I'm sorry : (

[amber valley]

Maybe a gap year would be great ig?

I mean you have time to build your profile

[rustic badge]

Isn't it auto reject if you don't add anything?

[amber valley]

Yes but WHAT IF YOU ADD?

I knew an intl fellow who got silver in chem

[rustic badge]

What can I add, I don't have any opportunities

I have silver in ioi, can't improve that

anything else I could do over summer would look like nothing

[narrow slate]

i'll see you next year :,)

[amber valley]

He got silver icho and took a gap year, did smth non-profit, make a huge community movement on social media, and he committed this year.

[rustic badge]

Did he have the silver before he applied the first time?

Or is it after

[amber valley]

I mean, just don’t lose hope lol you still have chance. IOI medal is always a good asset for mit admission

[amber valley]

Yes, he had it when he applied for the first time in senior year

[amber valley]

See ya!! 🤩✌🏻 go blue jaysss

[rustic badge]

Hmm then that's nice, although I doubt I can do social media movement 😅

[amber valley]

Just take time and find what else that u can do in the upcoming year

[amber valley]

For us intl, Olympiad medal is extremely valuable. All of intl students from my country who got admitted had at least 1 medal.

[tough rose]

rough dude

is gap year still an option or u gonna do ug somewhere else?

[amber valley]

This year, waitlisted from my country, except for me, have medals too! (Yeah yeah i don’t have any but somehow wl and got a sweet rejection😽)

What i would like to say is that silver ioi is already great but there r still bunch of intl with medals so you need to upgrade your profile to make it stand out. Not just a better medal but an application as a whole.

And i think one year is more than enough time

[burnt bolt]

mit waitlist rejected gang where y'all?

[boreal zenith]

shh jhu is so good

r u med

[boreal zenith]

💪🏼

[boreal zenith]

me with a chemoly medal who still got rejected

[narrow slate]

naw i'm cs

[boreal zenith]

oh

i mean jhu still good for cs i think

[narrow slate]

yeah i mean cs anywhere these days is good

[boreal zenith]

lowk we should switch

i wanna do bioe and u wanna do cs

[narrow slate]

it's kind of a lucrative major

LMAO forreal

[boreal zenith]

but i’m going to carnegie and ur going to jhu

tf

hello college admissions officers??

[boreal zenith]

fs

jane street internship 🙏

[narrow slate]

cmu cs hella competitive though

[boreal zenith]

tru

but it’s better than mit cs

[narrow slate]

i had the option to go to ut austin for cs, but i still chose jhu cus i'm not dead set on it

[boreal zenith]

ah

did u get turing

[narrow slate]

who knows maybe in a year i'll be in some engineering or med or something LOL

yeah i did

[boreal zenith]

holy cracked

[boreal zenith]

ya LOL

[narrow slate]

lowkey think it was a fluke though

i don't do comps

[boreal zenith]

jhu med is hard to transfer into tho

oh

i probs should have done bio comps instead of chem

maybe if i applied che or pure chem to jhu

😭

[narrow slate]

bio is really hard for me so all due respect to you

[boreal zenith]

cs is impossible for me

so

🫡

[narrow slate]

LMAO

doesn't ece have some coding though

[boreal zenith]

yeah

might die

it’s ok tho

[narrow slate]

are you double majoring?

[boreal zenith]

u have to at cmu

if u wanna do bme

[narrow slate]

oh what

that's crazy

[boreal zenith]

since it’s a new major and not fully developed

[narrow slate]

ah i see i see

[boreal zenith]

i was debating between bme / che and bme / ece

[narrow slate]

damn good luck

[boreal zenith]

i also got into comp bio there

so might do that

thanks

[narrow slate]

i thought i wanted to go into ece, but then i took physics c this year and i was like nope

electricity and magnetism killed

[boreal zenith]

i didn’t even take e&m OOPS

mech was fucking impossible for me

[winter rain]

oof someone did get off the mit waitlist

[boreal zenith]

but that’s cuz our teacher is insane

yeah they did

my cmu roommates ex

hehe

[narrow slate]

LMAO that is so specific

[winter rain]

i thought their class was full?

[boreal zenith]

exactly 😭 the coincidence

i was so hopeful like maybe no one got off!! bc my roommate is cracked af and he got wl->r

and then he was like oh my ex got off

[narrow slate]

i have the test on wednesday.. we were supposed to take it last week but college board didn't mail our school enough copies of the test

[boreal zenith]

💀

L school

[narrow slate]

bruhhh

that's tough

[boreal zenith]

yeah 🥲

but cmu might actually be equal to mit in terms of ece

(totally not cope)

whatever

[narrow slate]

dude cmu is definitely up there for engineering

[rustic badge]

Thanks. It made me feel better

[bitter sedge]

Mits way better

[rustic badge]

Sadly it isn't one year though. I have less than a year because if I apply next year I think applying early action would be a better idea

[bitter sedge]

Sorry but

[tough rose]

they are, by all reasonably applicable standards for undergrads, practically the same

[royal tartan]

Georgetown REJECTS FUCK

[boreal zenith]

cmu is actually very good at ece lol

like i get that it’s mit so supposedly it’s way better than cmu

this isn’t cope either cmu is very weak in pure science

[bitter sedge]

pittsburgh 😷
boston 😄👍

[boreal zenith]

r u mit 27

[bitter sedge]

but yeah cmus still good

Of course not

[boreal zenith]

oh