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@gyngyn in your opinion is it a good sign if a school starts accepting people off the waitlist even before the Aptil 30th deadline and keeps accepting people (2-3 people according to FB) after the 30th/per day? Also the date they started sending out offers to priority waitlist and then reg waitlist was a few weeks earlier compared to last year. Should I remain hopeful or does it mean most of the movement is done 🙁 ? Thank you !
 
Em4234 said:
@gyngyn in your opinion is it a good sign if a school starts accepting people off the waitlist even before the Aptil 30th deadline and keeps accepting people (2-3 people according to FB) after the 30th/per day? Also the date they started sending out offers to priority waitlist and then reg waitlist was a few weeks earlier compared to last year. Should I remain hopeful or does it mean most of the movement is done 🙁 ? Thank you !
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I, too, would find solace/closure in this answer

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Sent my updates today since I got my final spring grades to my WL schools....
Still waiting and weighing my options in the meantime.
Dartmouth had some movement before and a little after traffic day, haven't seen much lately. Same goes for WVU.
Now if only Drexel would fix my financial aid and acknowledge my FAFSA, we'd be good to go!!

I really want to know where I'm gonna be and for this to be over. Bring on school! :dead:
 
Em4234 said:
@gyngyn in your opinion is it a good sign if a school starts accepting people off the waitlist even before the Aptil 30th deadline and keeps accepting people (2-3 people according to FB) after the 30th/per day? Also the date they started sending out offers to priority waitlist and then reg waitlist was a few weeks earlier compared to last year. Should I remain hopeful or does it mean most of the movement is done 🙁 ? Thank you !
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The only thing that is reliably accurate is that once waitlist movement starts, it is likely to continue. The later it starts, the less movement there will be.
 
gyngyn said:
The only thing that is reliably accurate is that once waitlist movement starts, it is likely to continue. The later it starts, the less movement there will be.
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what constitutes "good waitlist movement"? 5% 7.5% 10% of the class moved off the waitlist in the first week?
 
Someone literally just got into Stanford, off the waitlist, ON A SUNDAY. I'm sorry, but if that is possible (given how notorious they are for having like zero movement) I feel like that means anything is possible. I'm predicting it now, someone from this thread is getting off the WL next week. I can feel it in my bones.
 
IPICU said:
Someone literally just got into Stanford, off the waitlist, ON A SUNDAY. I'm sorry, but if that is possible (given how notorious they are for having like zero movement) I feel like that means anything is possible. I'm predicting it now, someone from this thread is getting off the WL next week. I can feel it in my bones.
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Stanford has a new admissions dean.
 
atp6nd5 said:
@gyngyn have you seen anything at Mount Sinai?
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I saw a post from someone who was deciding between Sinai and Georgetown after they'd been accepted off the waitlist at both schools last week, so it seems there has been movement but that's the only evidence I've seen.
 
themelofellow said:
@gyngyn Is it typical for waitlist movement to continue through May and June? Is the waitlist movement this year slower than normal ?
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It is normal for waitlist movement to continue (once begun) until orientation has started at any particular school.
Waitlist movement seems to have slowed since the introduction of proprietary admissions software. That would be over the last 5 years or so in my observation.
 
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gyngyn said:
It is normal for waitlist movement to continue (once begun) until orientation has started at any particular school.
Waitlist movement seems to have slowed since the introduction of proprietary admissions software. That would be over the last 5 years or so in my observation.
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Just out of curiosity, with all this new technology, do you think waitlists will ever become a thing of the past?
 
Lannister said:
Just out of curiosity, with all this new technology, do you think waitlists will ever become a thing of the past?
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I don't think that will ever happen unless schools do deals with each other to only give one acceptance to each student, which opens up a whole can of worms if the student knows they were pigeon holed into one choice.

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gyngyn said:
Nope.
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Sorry if you already answered this. Can you see waitlist movement from all schools (any acceptances that come in), or only acceptances for students your school accepted or waitlisted? If the latter, if students withdrew from your school already, can you still see new acceptances for them? I was just curious as to how extensively you can see new movement. Thanks!
 
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ancientblue said:
Sorry if you already answered this. Can you see waitlist movement from all schools (any acceptances that come in), or only acceptances for students your school accepted or waitlisted? If the latter, if students withdrew from your school already, can you still see new acceptances for them? I was just curious as to how extensively you can see new movement. Thanks!
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I can only see what is happening on our acceptance and waitlist. Nothing else.
 
whatsupdr said:
One of our SDN friends got pulled off of the waitlist at Cooper, first acceptance and one waitlist! Now thats something!
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thank you @whatsupdr! for everyone worried about WLs here.. i had 2 interviews this cycle, i was rejected from one and WL at the other. at a school that has regular and priority WL. i was accepted from the regular WL. if i can do this, so can you guys! i have hope for each and every one of you!
 
magagna said:
Seems like a majority of Geffen's recent acceptances sent in extra LOI's/LOR's. Is that part of the game now? I assumed that staying on a waitlist past April 30 would already signify continued interest, but if LOI-writing is the new gold standard... Correlation =/= causation, but it just runs contrary to what SDN always preaches re: letters of interest.
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For what it's worth, I recently sent UCLA my LOI and heard nothing besides a thank you email.

I haven't heard back from my 5 WLs and most of those schools already had some movement. Will there really be more acceptances after May 15?
 
summergirl said:
Your outcome gave me all sorts of hope :luck::luck::luck::luck::luck:
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i'm glad it could! i made it very clear that this school was my top choice (it was even though it was my only hope at this point, if i had options, it still would have been) so i think that might've helped. i've now learned that there's ALWAYS hope, even if it doesn't seem like it. i basically had given up on this cycle (i even emailed them today about applying ED next year haha)
 
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I think so, last year's threads showed regular movement into June, and gyngyn's statements all support that actually happening. Keeping my fingers crossed for us...
Distraught said:
For what it's worth, I recently sent UCLA my LOI and heard nothing besides a thank you email.

I haven't heard back from my 5 WLs and most of those schools already had some movement. Will there really be more acceptances after May 15?
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Anyone know anything about the UConn SOM Waitlist? Any movements? I'm on the high priority alternate list but idk how much that helps me. Thanks! @gyngyn
 
@gyngyn how should I feel about a waitlist not having moved nearly as much as it did thus far in prior years? I understand it's still early, but for the last couple years the school is known to have pulled a large number from the waitlist, but activity seems much lower this year. I've called the office to gauge if there has been significant movement or if they expect to see more of it, but they'e only given me the careful 'yes people have been pulled' and 'it can move until matriculation' answers. What do you think?
 
throwaway91 said:
@gyngyn how should I feel about a waitlist not having moved nearly as much as it did thus far in prior years? I understand it's still early, but for the last couple years the school is known to have pulled a large number from the waitlist, but activity seems much lower this year. I've called the office to gauge if there has been significant movement or if they expect to see more of it, but they'e only given me the careful 'yes people have been pulled' and 'it can move until matriculation' answers. What do you think?
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They may have adjusted their algorithm to account for excessive waitlist movement. Once movement starts, it can be expected to continue, though.
 
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