Prefer2Lurk

Teaching and Learning

For the PhD program, I received a phone call from my potential advisor the week after recruitment weekend telling me I had been admitted. The official paper work hasn't arrived in the mail, however, so I'm in a "got to see it to believe it" holding pattern.

Someone posted on the results page that he/she has been waitlisted at Irvine. PM me if you read this.

I was recently at a recruitment weekend for a top-tier university. The admin there made it clear that the few people put on the waitlist would be offered admission when admitted students declined their offers. They even urged admitted students to make their decisions as soon as possible in consideration of waitlisted students. Since there's a good chance admitted students have been admitted to other programs, it's certainly well within the realm of possibility that a student's decision--whether to decline or accept--will open a spot for a waitlisted student. I met an applicant recently who had been offered admission by two universities ranked in US News' top five, both of which maintain an admission waitlist. He can't go to both, so someone on a waitlist at either institution will be offered admission.