{"id":3566,"date":"2015-05-06t09:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-06t16:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/sat\/?p=3566"},"modified":"2021-01-06t13:46:52","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06t21:46:52","slug":"wait-im-wait-listed-some-faqs-about-what-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/college-admissions\/wait-im-wait-listed-some-faqs-about-what-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"wait, i\u2019m wait-listed? \u2013 some faq\u2019s about what to do"},"content":{"rendered":"
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receiving a spot on a wait list can put you in one of the most precarious situations during the college acceptance season. there really is no clear-cut explanation for what it entails, and more often than not the notifications read like some ex-boyfriend\u2019s way of letting you down easy. so if you, like many students, are finding yourself lost on how to proceed, check out the answered faq\u2019s below:
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being wait-listed means you have been placed in a \u201cholding pen\u201d of sorts. the college has essentially said that you are qualified enough for admission, but they do not currently have the space to accommodate for your awesomeness. however, if enough accepted applicants choose to go somewhere else, the college will begin picking certain students to fill in the gaps.
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for better or for worse, wait lists are almost always non-prioritized. the admissions committee is looking to balance out the incoming class (whether that\u2019s by gender, race, location, major, hobbies\u2026), so when an opening occurs they will re-look at the entire wait list pool. each year, schools vary in the size of their wait list as well as in the fraction of those kids that they accept, although digging up past statistics can give you some perspective. for example, according to the new york times, of the 996 students who yale wait-listed in 2011, 103 were accepted.
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