When I nagged, my POI replied, "There are places for just one or two people in the contemporary program each year, so we are waiting on the decision of those to whom we have made an offer." That is why we are on the wait list.
I am in the same boat of U pitt. I saw from the board that two more people in the same boat as well. How many applicants are wait-listed on it?
But I've heard that there is only one or two vacancy in the contemporary sec. Hopeless....