The Waitlist Purgatory [NEW POLL!!] Forum

[pleasesendhelp]

Didn't want to find myself here, yet here I am.

Duke you tease.

[Nightwing]

Just got Georgetown's preferred waiting list.

So, that's Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, and UCLA. Priority/preferred at Duke/Georgetown. No acceptances yet, no rejections yet. What is this cycle?

[dyebri]

Just got Georgetown's preferred waiting list.

So, that's Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, and UCLA. Priority/preferred at Duke/Georgetown. No acceptances yet, no rejections yet. What is this cycle?

I'm sorry. Hang in there this is the weirdest countercycle

[charles117]

yo columbia, gtown whats up

[Nightwing]

Just got Georgetown's preferred waiting list.

So, that's Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, and UCLA. Priority/preferred at Duke/Georgetown. No acceptances yet, no rejections yet. What is this cycle?

I'm sorry. Hang in there this is the weirdest countercycle

This doesn't seem like a countercycle unless January apps still aren't considered late enough to benefit. This looks more like a YP WL everywhere or scholarship minimization to deal with the dropped LSAT scores cycle to me.

Or maybe my application just sucks and I should give up hope on everywhere else while I'm at it.

[goldenbear2020]

Just got Georgetown's preferred waiting list.

So, that's Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, and UCLA. Priority/preferred at Duke/Georgetown. No acceptances yet, no rejections yet. What is this cycle?

I'm sorry. Hang in there this is the weirdest countercycle

This doesn't seem like a countercycle unless January apps still aren't considered late enough to benefit. This looks more like a YP WL everywhere or scholarship minimization to deal with the dropped LSAT scores cycle to me.

Or maybe my application just sucks and I should give up hope on everywhere else while I'm at it.

Where else are you pending?

[Nightwing]

Just got Georgetown's preferred waiting list.

So, that's Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, and UCLA. Priority/preferred at Duke/Georgetown. No acceptances yet, no rejections yet. What is this cycle?

I'm sorry. Hang in there this is the weirdest countercycle

This doesn't seem like a countercycle unless January apps still aren't considered late enough to benefit. This looks more like a YP WL everywhere or scholarship minimization to deal with the dropped LSAT scores cycle to me.

Or maybe my application just sucks and I should give up hope on everywhere else while I'm at it.

Where else are you pending?

The remaining T14 except HYS.

[chandhi]

This week: accepted at NYU, interview request at Chicago, preferred waitlist at GULC. That was unexpected.

[siyuanff]

I feel you!!! We are basically the same, except that I was also waitlisted at UVA. Got my Georgetown preferred wl email this morning and felt nothing. This cycle is brutal, but it may have something to with the fact that I am an International applicant and KJD

Just got Georgetown's preferred waiting list.

So, that's Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, and UCLA. Priority/preferred at Duke/Georgetown. No acceptances yet, no rejections yet. What is this cycle?

[S.Picquery]

Is everyone waiting out their decisions? I think I'm just going to... not. But I haven't decided yet :/

[floatie]

Is everyone waiting out their decisions? I think I'm just going to... not. But I haven't decided yet :/

I am at one school that I would actually attend off the waitlist. I withdrew from two others this past week, because I decided I couldn't justify attending those (likely at sticker) over the $$$ I have at other schools.

[alpha kenny body]

Is everyone waiting out their decisions? I think I'm just going to... not. But I haven't decided yet :/

I withdrew from 5/7 schools I was waitlisted from because I probably wouldn't attend if I got off, and they weren't going to take me off and give me what my numbers deserve, so why not give the space to someone who actually would attend? Also too, it could also be another method to show a school you're interested in that you withdrew everywhere else that waitlisted you.

[S.Picquery]

Thank you both, this was helpful.

[Po$eidon]

Question: waitlist basically means no scholarship, right?

[tncats]

Question: waitlist basically means no scholarship, right?

I was just admitted from a waitlist and given a half scholarship, so not necessarily.

[xinaii]

Duke WL
Cornell WL.....

I'm sooo pessimistic about other schools I applied....

[Nightwing]

Duke WL
Cornell WL.....

I'm sooo pessimistic about other schools I applied....

I'm in this boat. It's full of holes.

[somedeadman]

Is everyone waiting out their decisions? I think I'm just going to... not. But I haven't decided yet :/

I withdrew from 5/7 schools I was waitlisted from because I probably wouldn't attend if I got off, and they weren't going to take me off and give me what my numbers deserve, so why not give the space to someone who actually would attend? Also too, it could also be another method to show a school you're interested in that you withdrew everywhere else that waitlisted you.

Do schools know that a candidate has been waitlisted at other places?

[SybillAnnDorsett]

Is everyone waiting out their decisions? I think I'm just going to... not. But I haven't decided yet :/

I withdrew from 5/7 schools I was waitlisted from because I probably wouldn't attend if I got off, and they weren't going to take me off and give me what my numbers deserve, so why not give the space to someone who actually would attend? Also too, it could also be another method to show a school you're interested in that you withdrew everywhere else that waitlisted you.

Do schools know that a candidate has been waitlisted at other places?

curious about this as well because if so, and if shown to have any impact at all in the past, I'd gladly withdraw from two of my three waitlists in exchange for an NYU acceptance

[xinaii]

Duke WL
Cornell WL.....

I'm sooo pessimistic about other schools I applied....

I'm in this boat. It's full of holes.

we are WL collectors.... May I know when did you apply?

[Nightwing]

Duke WL
Cornell WL.....

I'm sooo pessimistic about other schools I applied....

I'm in this boat. It's full of holes.

we are WL collectors.... May I know when did you apply?

I've been in WL purgatory for so long I forgot my own name, let alone when I applied.



in one fateful January

[xinaii]

Duke WL
Cornell WL.....

I'm sooo pessimistic about other schools I applied....

I'm in this boat. It's full of holes.

we are WL collectors.... May I know when did you apply?

I've been in WL purgatory for so long I forgot my own name, let alone when I applied.



in one fateful January

LOL....

[kotleta]

Reserve at Cornell I sent in a LOCI a few days after and when I got an email back confirming they received it, I asked whether I'd be able to meet with anyone at admissions (because I know reserve list has had interviews in the past) but they never got back to me and it's been about a week. Should I bother emailing admissions again about it or would that be annoying?

[floatie]

Reserve at Cornell I sent in a LOCI a few days after and when I got an email back confirming they received it, I asked whether I'd be able to meet with anyone at admissions (because I know reserve list has had interviews in the past) but they never got back to me and it's been about a week. Should I bother emailing admissions again about it or would that be annoying?

I'd follow up with a phone call in another week.

[tofuspeedstar]

Is everyone waiting out their decisions? I think I'm just going to... not. But I haven't decided yet :/

Yeah, probably gonna wait it out. One W/L I'm on I want to attend.