Same feelingg
For what it’s worth, it probably wasn’t anything you did. Wayne is notorious for filling their class off their waitlist and waitlist later applicants just because they don’t have the spots open. Not a fair practice to applicants but it is what it is. You’re just as deserving as everyone else so hang in there, hope you get good news.
You are the goat of this sub
It seems a little late to me. As far as how it weighs in admissions, I didn’t send a thank you and I received an A (not advocating for NOT sending them, it’s polite. But it doesn’t seem to carry a ton of weight?)
I got the WL too.
I wouldn’t put too much stock into it. Personally, I was waitlisted 10 days after my interview and then accepted roughly three weeks after being waitlisted. Wayne State interviews a ton of applicants and heavily utilizes the waitlist. Keep your head up!
from what I remember after checking out past threads most WLs from about Dec or after seem to materialize closer to Apr/May
No reason not to; I'm not sure until when they interview, but I would say go for it. Have you gotten any of their newsletters?
I haven't gotten any of their newsletters for a couple of months. Is that a bad sign 😨
No, not at all, they have not sent them out in a while. Was just making sure you had gotten them initially to ensure your communication method was accurate.
I interviewed 1/6 not heard back yet 🙁
yes, check admitted email
same, haven't heard anything yet since completing early august. from last year's cycle track, it looks like they sent out mass Rs in late march 💔
we boutta get snapped 😭 MR STARK I DONT WANT TO GO LET ME IN
They will not be sending out more interviews unfortunately
can't speak for everyone, but nope i've been wl since 12/05.
Movement usually begins to happen towards April and May.
There was like 0 movement last year based on the thread from a year ago unfortunately
According to cycletrack, there was apparently one wave of As in March and then no As at all after that last year. I'm assuming the ppl last year were comparing it to the year before, where there were like little waves of As in March, April, and May (also according to cycletrack) which didn't happen last year. I'm gon assume there shud be at least one wave of post-waitlist A offers sometime between now and July cuz it seems like they haven't sent any As (or at least any substantial number of As) since Feb.
Hopefully but they also admitted only 550 people or something close to that based on their tracker last year. The year before they admitted more than 700.
They over admitted last year and had to have some people defer their acceptance to this year I believe, so who knows
Cycle track and admit.org aren’t reliable for waitlists as people getting in rarely update those as they’re too busy trying to up and move their entire life within a week. MSAR reported 300/600 getting “off” the waitlist but those numbers are self reported by schools and definitely not accurate. Overall no way of really knowing since so much depends on who turns down the A each year.
Why wouldn’t it be accurate if the schools are self-reporting those numbers? I wouldn’t think that the schools are lying about that
Schools all have their own definition of "waitlist" including alternate, deferred, and waitlist. This skews the numbers depending on what the schools choose to count as a student getting in off of one of these lists. Wayne's waitlist is really just a glorified alternate list since they take people off throughout the year. Additionally, Wayne's class size is 290, so I think it is unreasonable to think they admit over their entire class size from the waitlist. So many students would have to turn down the acceptance from the waitlist to get that value (also it was exactly 300/600? those numbers are too perfect to be real and are estimates at best).
I agree 300/600 does sound like too much but a couple years ago they sent over 700 As while having roughly 300 seats so it is plausible. Last year seemed to be different though.
Definitely plausible, but just feels weird nonetheless. I may also just be salty and tired of this system. To me, if you waitlist that many candidates and pull that many from your waitlist just to fill your class, there is something wrong with your system and how you treat your applicants.
Congrats! when were you put on the waitlist?
About a month ago.
