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Wow, that is excellent! Congrats to you and your SO. If everything works out, I would be heading to NYC too!
Thank you for your kind words, I hope to hear back from the school soon and let you all know!

That is a wonderful thing you said, @FeelTheBern. Thank you. I really do hope that everyone on this thread make it to their waitlisted schools, because it is so close we can almost taste it...!!! And so the support and healing for each other goes on until everyone makes it! We are almost there, aspiring psychologists! Hope we all hear back our good news soon. I can't wait to hear everyone's well-deserving, wonderful "successful waitlist story".

Hang in there!! I was recently admitted off the wait list at a place that I'm really excited about, so it could happen to you too!

Thanks!  Best of luck to you!  

I'm hanging in there...but it is so difficult some days. I am so relieved for all of you who have recieved offers off the waitlist. Thank you so much for sharing with all of and providing a little bit of hope!! At this point, I'm not quite as upset or sad as I was a month ago, but I'm trying not to get my hopes up too terribly much either. I got an e-mail from a school this week (my top choice) and got so excited, but opened it just to hear that they "just wanted to update me that I still remain on the waitlist"...which is nice, but not exactly what I was hoping for.
Fingers crossed for everyone!!! We're getting towards the end of March and lists will start becoming more active each day I imagine.

update: I just received an email from the program coordinator about me being in the top tier waitlist. Finally after two months since the interview. I really hope whoever is before me do not take up the offer. Continue to wait patiently and congrats to all who have received good news thus far!  

Another wait list success story here!!
I was actually pretty pleased with being wait listed by my top program after a less-than-impressive application cycle and hearing that the program had only offered three acceptances this year. I emailed after being wait listed just to say that it was still my top choice and I wouldn't make a decision until hearing from them. My POI contacted me to schedule a call about a week later, and offered me a spot while we were on the phone. I got an amazing fellowship offer a few days later.
Like I said, I didn't feel so great about my chances this year, and was beginning to consider back up plans before getting off this wait list (my only other acceptance provided a generous first year fellowship, but it wouldn't have covered the full cost of living, and funding for subsequent years wasn't guaranteed). This totally feels like a one in a million chance that is the result of finding a really close research match and someone else happening to decline. PhD apps are SUCH a crapshoot!

I can completely relate to your anxiety and agony. I have not seen anything posted from the results page for my school after people posted about the interview invites. I am not sure what this means, but I can't really say much about the results page for its nature of being anonymous. Anyhow, best of luck with your program. You have come so far, and I am sure you deserve an offer!!! It appears that people who receive one offer (particularly the "initial" offers from the schools) are likely to receive multiple offers, so hopefully the person received a better offer elsewhere and decides to go there. The fact that the person hasn't responded to the offer may indicate that the place isn't that person's first choice. There's still hope!!!

I can completely relate to your anxiety and agony. I have not seen anything posted from the results page for my school after people posted about the interview invites. I am not sure what this means, but I can't really say much about the results page for its nature of being anonymous. Anyhow, best of luck with your program. You have come so far, and I am sure you deserve an offer!!! It appears that people who receive one offer (particularly the "initial" offers from the schools) are likely to receive multiple offers, so hopefully the person received a better offer elsewhere and decides to go there. The fact that the person hasn't responded to the offer may indicate that the place isn't that person's first choice. There's still hope!!!

Oh my gosh! What a stressful situation... The student who received the offer must be either waiting for an offer from their top choice or deciding which school to go if they had received more than one offer. At this point, there is no way of knowing what your chances would be, but if you are the first alternate that your POI has on his list then your chances may be a lot higher than one would think. In my case, I have been placed in the "pool" of candidates on the waitlist for my school as this program the department accepts a bunch of people and take people off the waitlist pool based on the number of declined offer from their initial offers. I know from having been communicating with other candidates who I met on the interview days, they have been put on the same waitlist and they received offers elsewhere and decided to attend those schools rather than waiting (this also happened to my friend last year who had applied to this particular school and she got an offer from this school so close to the 4/15 deadline but she had already committed to another school). For me, this is my first choice, so I decided to wait. I turned down all other offers I received (risky move, but I didn't want other people who are waiting for the offers to go through the same pain as I am going through, when I know I am not going to take those offers). Also I got so close to this opportunity, I thought I have a high chance of getting accepted off the waitlist from this school!
From what I hear from my current advisors, the waitlist works in various ways. It could be that they have a single waitlist for the department so the professors who get to pick more students (having a priority of choosing/getting students in that particular application year) may admit those people from the waitlist, although the candidate's overall "rank" on the waitlist may have been lower than some other people. Or, each professor may have their own list and they have the liberty of choosing whomever they wish to admit when the initial offer is declined. 
In any way, this process is stressful enough I think the best thing that we can do for now is try to think positively and wait patiently until they give an answer. 4/15 is the date our suffering shall end...!!! Ideally it would happen before this date, hopefully bearing good news.
Another week of agony begins, hold on tight my fellow waitlisters, we are going to make this happen:)
 

Oh, so close...!!! I am sure that the update is a good sign. They may still want you to hold off in accepting any other offers, probably because you are a high alternate. I am doing okay for most days now, but I experience acute feeling of panic/anxiety about the elongated uncertainty time to time. I truly wish you the best. I know we can get off the waitlist and get accepted any day now. Fingers crossed, knock on woods (and all other superstitious rituals that would make our wishes come true!).

Yes, my favorite search words on grad cafe right now are "waitlist" and "possible". It did say in my email from my top school notifying me of my waitlist status that they historically had been taking some people off the waitlists and offered positions in the past. Also one of my lab mates who currently are at a wonderful program other than this school was waitlisted at the same school that I am waitlisted, and she was offered a position on 4/11 (which she deferred). So it is very possible that the offer could come very near to the APA deadline (4/15). So I am trying to not let my self feel like a failure just yet and gather positive energy.
Yet, I am definitely thinking about my Plan B. Being an international student staying in the US, it makes it really difficult to not know what you would do if you don't get accepted anywhere, and when I have to leave the country if you don't get an offer from a school.
I have not completely lost hope and I still think that I can get into this program. I wish every 'waitlisters' the best. Let's hope that the people who got admitted to our top waitlisted programs got a better offer elsewhere and will turn down the offers from our schools:)

I have to agree with this... as someone being waitlisted to my top schools, I would like to beg to those who received multiple offers... you got multiple offers because you are amazing at what you do, and I am truly very happy for you. When you make your decision of where you are going, please let the schools know as soon as you can so that us waiting to hear back can get out of misery and return to our normal lives. Thank you very, very much for your thoughtfulness and consideration in advance!

I have to agree with this... as someone being waitlisted to my top schools, I would like to beg to those who received multiple offers... you got multiple offers because you are amazing at what you do, and I am truly very happy for you. When you make your decision of where you are going, please let the schools know as soon as you can so that us waiting to hear back can get out of misery and return to our normal lives. Thank you very, very much for your thoughtfulness and consideration in advance!

For someone like me - self-dubbed the "wait-list King" - as 4 of my 5 schools have wait listed me. I would appreciate the feedback. My plea to all at this point is please do not hold more than two offers. Those of us in wait list hell would so appreciate it