Decision deadline & waitlist !?

[the poisoned pawn]

As a general agreement among schools, April 15th is the the deadline to accept or to decline an offer. It is almost April and I only received decisions from 6 out of 12 schools that I applied to. Yet, the available choices are not the ideal ones. There should be a topic like this somewhere in this forum which is for all majors, but I think it is better if I post it here in order not to read the posts starting with "it depends on your field, ..."

The first option is the admission to University of Wisconsin, Madison without guaranteed funding. That means I by myself have to apply for the Epic RAship and other positions that are available in order to get a funding otherwise I have to pay for a while. The second choice is UMass Amherst. I'm admitted to the MS track and on the waitlist of PhD track. Both are good schools but the funding situations are still very unclear. Not much of surprise, I received rejections from the very top schools like Berkeley and CMU.

The schools that I am still waiting for are actually good ones like Michigan, Maryland, NYU, UCI, Rutgers and OSU. One of them is my undergrad school. Should I expect to receive all of their decisions by April 15th. Generally, do you guys know when should I expect to know whether or not I'm getting off the waitlist of UMass by the deadline?

I know it is a very bad situation to accept an offer and then decline it. So what's the best strategy here? Feel free to discuss and give advice for my case as well as adding yours here.

Cheers.

[adinutzyc]

Unless they are rolling, UCI and OSU seem to have already made their decisions... I am waiting on UCI too (well, honestly I am waiting for a confirmed reject, but maybe I am wrong...)

Have you tried calling the Admissions Office? Even if they tell you to wait, at least you will have done something... Sorry for not being of much help. I think the funding situation for your schools is pretty bad - maybe you can email/call them and explain your situation and ask for a deadline extension, explaining that the funding is the main reason you cannot say a definite yes...

Good luck!

[hyper]

As a general agreement among schools, April 15th is the the deadline to accept or to decline an offer. It is almost April and I only received decisions from 6 out of 12 schools that I applied to. Yet, the available choices are not the ideal ones. There should be a topic like this somewhere in this forum which is for all majors, but I think it is better if I post it here in order not to read the posts starting with "it depends on your field, ..."

The first option is the admission to University of Wisconsin, Madison without guaranteed funding. That means I by myself have to apply for the Epic RAship and other positions that are available in order to get a funding otherwise I have to pay for a while. The second choice is UMass Amherst. I'm admitted to the MS track and on the waitlist of PhD track. Both are good schools but the funding situations are still very unclear. Not much of surprise, I received rejections from the very top schools like Berkeley and CMU.

The schools that I am still waiting for are actually good ones like Michigan, Maryland, NYU, UCI, Rutgers and OSU. One of them is my undergrad school. Should I expect to receive all of their decisions by April 15th. Generally, do you guys know when should I expect to know whether or not I'm getting off the waitlist of UMass by the deadline?

I know it is a very bad situation to accept an offer and then decline it. So what's the best strategy here? Feel free to discuss and give advice for my case as well as adding yours here.

Cheers.

It's very hard to say when an applicant can get off a waitlist. I've heard that someone didn't get off the waitlist of MIT util some time after 4.15 before . I'm also on the waitlist of the PhD track of UIUC. And I contatcted them, there seems no specific time. I think we can only make a cafeful plan, rank our preferences for the schools and decide what we would do if we recieve the results. It's useless to guess when the waitlist will turn into an offer or a rejection.

As for UMich, I believe they haven't sent most of their offers since we can see a lot of offers in April last year. As for the other schools, I don't know much.

BTW, I have declined my offer from UCI, hope this would help.

Edited March 28, 2011 by hyper

[mewtwo]

I still haven't even heard of whether or not I'm waitlisted at one school. I'm planning on sending the department head an invoice for the application fee as soon as it hits April 16th.

[ChavezRavine]

I still haven't even heard of whether or not I'm waitlisted at one school. I'm planning on sending the department head an invoice for the application fee as soon as it hits April 16th.

LMAO on the invoice. I'm thinking that I might do the same too..

[relentless]

I still haven't even heard of whether or not I'm waitlisted at one school. I'm planning on sending the department head an invoice for the application fee as soon as it hits April 16th.

I am still waiting to hear from 10 schools. This is so unfair. I will definitely follow your procedure right after April 15th.

[the poisoned pawn]

Do they have a term and agreement about having a decision by April 15 when we submit the application?

[relentless]

Do they have a term and agreement about having a decision by April 15 when we submit the application?

Nope, I guess.

BTW, wherever I ask when it is possible to let me know the admission decision, they replied me that my application is under review and they require few more days to send out the decision. Is it really true that they are still reviewing the application whereas some results have already been sent by them? What is the reason to withhold the rejection information by not updating the application status? If anyone is in the waiting list, he/she deserves to know it. Yet, if one's application decision is rejection, the admission committee should send this information right away after evaluation. Isn't it so injustice not to get application decision by April 15th in spite of applying properly by paying considerable amount of application fee by application deadline?

[Transcendence]

I'm in the same situation as you. Got unfunded offer from UW-M and waiting on UCI and UMich (just got a rejection from NYU today).