When do Waitlist results come out?

[little_giant]

I am on the waitlist for one of my top schools. I was wondering if waitlists can become A's sometime in late February or early March before the CTE dates start?

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[kingdomheart]

Depends on the school. You could get off the waitlist tomorrow or the day before classes (from what I've heard).

 

[kritten]

I think many schools do not move the waitlist until May, but some can release sooner. It seems pretty hard to know, and I wouldn't get hopes up for movement before CTE

 

[82Scout]

I would check with each individual school you are wait listed on as it varies greatly.

 

[Cornfed101]

This is a good question for the school-specific thread of the school in question.

 

[LizzyM]

The waitlist moves when the school has a seat to fill. Given that many schools make 2-3 times as many offers as they have seats, for some schools there is no need to go to the waitlist (and some anxiety waiting to see if the offers accepted exceeds available seats), and others will not need the waitlist until well after the CTE. That said, you can stay on waitlists for as long as you wish and turn down an offer from a school you committed to, in order to accept the offer made from the school that waitlisted you. As you can picture, this causes a cascade as someone turns down Hopkins when taken off the list at Stanford and then someone comes off the waitlist Hopkins to fill the seat vacated by the applicant going to Stanford and that requires the applicant to turn down Harvard.... etc

 

[Goro]

I am on the waitlist for one of my top schools. I was wondering if waitlists can become A's sometime in late February or early March before the CTE dates start?

Consider yourself rejected until you have that accept email in your Inbox, and work on Plan B in the meantime.

 

[KnightDoc]

The waitlist moves when the school has a seat to fill. Given that many schools make 2-3 times as many offers as they have seats, for some schools there is no need to go to the waitlist (and some anxiety waiting to see if the offers accepted exceeds available seats), and others will not need the waitlist until well after the CTE. That said, you can stay on waitlists for as long as you wish and turn down an offer from a school you committed to, in order to accept the offer made from the school that waitlisted you. As you can picture, this causes a cascade as someone turns down Hopkins when taken off the list at Stanford and then someone comes off the waitlist Hopkins to fill the seat vacated by the applicant going to Stanford and that requires the applicant to turn down Harvard.... etc

You say you can turn down an offer from a school you committed to, but this isn't true if they enforce the CTE condition that you withdraw from all other As and WLs. What I think you are describing is PTE after 4/30, where you can only hold one A and as many WLs as you like, but that's not a commitment.