Accepting an offer after moving off waitlist

[EmptyRhetoric]

Hi guys,

I have a paranoid question, but one that has been bothering me.

I was recently taken off a waitlist at a private university that will have small cohort and offered fully funded admission. If I accept the offer, is there any chance that I will be treated differently than the recruits who were selected in the first round and who accept the initial offer?

Thanks.

[miratrix]

I really don't think so, once you accept you will all be in it together and on the exact same footing. (And congrats!)

[UnlikelyGrad]

I doubt it. Your advisor may not have been on the admissions committee so he may not even realize that you were ever waitlisted.

I seem to recall that my PI was waitlisted at the school that he ended up attending. He did pretty well there, so his "second-tier" admissions status obviously didn't hurt him.

[firefly85]

Hi guys,

I have a paranoid question, but one that has been bothering me.

I was recently taken off a waitlist at a private university that will have small cohort and offered fully funded admission. If I accept the offer, is there any chance that I will be treated differently than the recruits who were selected in the first round and who accept the initial offer?

Thanks.

I doubt it either, they obviously have interest in you if they selected you off of a waitlist and will be fully funding you (!!!). None of the students will know it unless you tell them and at least some if not most of the professors probably won't either (idk how their admissions process works). Congrats on this great offer!

[Aceflyer]

Hi guys,

I have a paranoid question, but one that has been bothering me.

I was recently taken off a waitlist at a private university that will have small cohort and offered fully funded admission. If I accept the offer, is there any chance that I will be treated differently than the recruits who were selected in the first round and who accept the initial offer?

Thanks.

Is there any chance that you will be treated differently? There's always a chance - however small - that this will happen. In my opinion, though, the chance that this will happen is so small that you really shouldn't worry about it. The fact that you have been offered admission - fully funded at that - means that the program has confidence in you, thinks you are qualified to attend, and, perhaps most importantly, wants you to attend. (If they didn't want you to attend, they wouldn't have offered you admission. Remember, the program - not you - made the decision to offer you admission. Programs only offer admission to students they want.)

[liszt85]

Hi guys,

I have a paranoid question, but one that has been bothering me.

I was recently taken off a waitlist at a private university that will have small cohort and offered fully funded admission. If I accept the offer, is there any chance that I will be treated differently than the recruits who were selected in the first round and who accept the initial offer?

Thanks.

This is indeed a paranoid question This year, people say the competition has been fierce. That coupled with the economic crisis has led to many excellent candidates being turned down. I got an email from a top Psychology program rejecting me but the professor who I wanted to work with emailed me before the grad school could send me a rejection letter. She said that she was writing to make sure that this point was driven home: that she really tried her best to get me there and that she sincerely wanted to work this out. We had research ideas that matched well. She said that she was however unable to find funding from the state of California and hence a rejection letter might be on the way that may not inform me about the precise reason and that I had no reason to worry that I could have done anything differently and that my application was just fine. So she just wanted to make sure that I knew that this rejection was based on purely financial reasons.

So what I'm trying to say here is that if you were waitlisted and have now been offered a fully funded place, you are as good as the rest! It must surely have been a tough decision for them to decide on who was to go to the waitlist and who was to go to the first tier. So please put such thoughts out of your head and be proud of your achievement! Good luck,

[vern23]

i've always been told once you're in you're in doesn't matter when you got in, no one will know or remember.