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WAIT LISTED
Many private colleges place some student’s names on a wait list. If
you are in this situation, you need to do the following:
Contact the college promptly
Contact the college by phone and ask how the wait list works.
Write a letter expressing your interest and provide new information,
if possible.
Your letter should be brief.
You should include a letter of recommendation.
Let your counselor know you are interested in the college. Your
counselor could receive a call from the college.
Ask how many students were removed from the waitlist last
year?
If you do not hear from the college before May 1, you must select
another college.
If you receive a call during summer, you may withdraw your
application from another college. You will not get your deposit back.
Some colleges frequently use a wait list and contact students when
an opening occurs. It can vary from year to year.
Not all colleges have a wait list or remove names from the list.
Students accepted off the waitlist in 2008:
Stanford 0
Princeton 90
Harvard 200
Yale 46
University of Pennsylvania 90
Amherst 25
MIT 35
University of Chicago 10-15
Georgetown 80
Johns Hopkins 30
Swarthmore College 22
Pomona College 16
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 300
University of Wisconsin- Madison 800
Boston College 250
University of Virginia 0
Many private colleges place some student’s names on a wait list. If
you are in this situation, you need to do the following:
Contact the college promptly
Contact the college by phone and ask how the wait list works.
Write a letter expressing your interest and provide new information,
if possible.
Your letter should be brief.
You should include a letter of recommendation.
Let your counselor know you are interested in the college. Your
counselor could receive a call from the college.
Ask how many students were removed from the waitlist last
year?
If you do not hear from the college before May 1, you must select
another college.
If you receive a call during summer, you may withdraw your
application from another college. You will not get your deposit back.
Some colleges frequently use a wait list and contact students when
an opening occurs. It can vary from year to year.
Not all colleges have a wait list or remove names from the list.
Students accepted off the waitlist in 2008:
Stanford 0
Princeton 90
Harvard 200
Yale 46
University of Pennsylvania 90
Amherst 25
MIT 35
University of Chicago 10-15
Georgetown 80
Johns Hopkins 30
Swarthmore College 22
Pomona College 16
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 300
University of Wisconsin- Madison 800
Boston College 250
University of Virginia 0
Being Wait Listed for College