Sunset95

Question for anyone else who got waitlisted and didn’t accept: did you receive a “change in admission status” email today? I got a denial letter, but I also never told them I was accepting the waitlist so is that just a formality? I’m so confused.

Ahhh I creeped on the right day! Congratulations!!!!

That’s true. Although I would hope I didn’t come off as pushy. I asked generally at the end of February (when they told us we would know) when we should know and they said beginning of March. Beginning of March I had to let them know I had a deadline, especially since they had started admitting regular decision people and I was priority. I was polite both times but received curt responses. Luckily I had other options and decided it wasn’t a game I wanted to play with them. Unfortunately, I see this isn’t the only department playing games with people regarding admission decisions so I don’t feel as bad now.

I think it does. I told them I was not allowed to receive anymore extensions from another school and that I needed to respond to them by March 15. The response I got was simply “you’ll receive an answer within the next 10 days.” They then waited until March 15 at 5pm to let me know I was waitlisted. I was hesitant to ask because I felt that something like that would happen and I believe I may have possibly been accepted had I not said anything, but it was true. Other schools were getting frustrated with me and I needed to know an answer. I understand the fixation because I keep wondering if I would have been outright accepted had I not said anything, but at the same time I can sense this was due to me giving them a deadline and it’s weird that they would be petty for something like that. Especially since they had my completed application since November 11.

Yeah, that’s why I didn’t accept the waitlist. I think if they would’ve been more open from the start it wouldn’t have been so bad but they’ve been telling people “the next two weeks” since January knowing it wasn’t like that. I don’t even know if all the priority people have heard back yet. I hope they have.

Yeah. And tbh I don’t even think they completely reviewed my application. I think they waited until the deadline I gave them and then were like “well let’s see if she accepts the waitlist and we’ll review it later.” Something is very off this year.

Is anyone attending Penn in the fall? I know there’s a Facebook group but I wanted to see if there were people on here going lol

I came back to creep and see they’re still doing you guys dirty. Smh eternally.

I'm thoroughly confused as well. But I'm going to keep lurking until I figure it out?

I've seen a spectrum of stats so it's really throwing me off on how they've been choosing. And then are they grouping by program specificities or just general groups?

I'm still here lurking. I'm trying to keep updated so I can piece together this admissions process. This is a mystery I intend to solve?

DON'T DO IT!!! LEARN FROM MY MISTAKES!!!

Thank you!! I'm really excited and it's such a relief to finally move forward past the application/waiting stage. I wish you the best as well!

Thank you!! And I know you'll do amazing wherever you end up as well! Hopefully Columbia will throw an acceptance your way!

Thank you!!