Waitlist Thread

[zalvane]

6 hours ago, Turretin said:

Congrats for being high on the list at Purdue. I hope that the waitlist gets a lot of movement, since I'm hoping to come off it (my AOI is not continental, though)

thanks man

[To φ or not to φ]

Seems like Wisconsin Madison has begun to send out its waitlist offers (see TGC Results page)...

[eigenname]

Meanwhile, still in purgatory for WUSTL without a rejection nor acceptance, and this is my last 'hope'. I suppose they changed their wait-list policy since they didn't sent out wait-list emails like last year? If anyone is planning to drop WUSTL please do so asap to save me from eternal waiting

[Ibycus]

10 minutes ago, eigenname said:

Meanwhile, still in purgatory for WUSTL without a rejection nor acceptance, and this is my last 'hope'. I suppose they changed their wait-list policy since they didn't sent out wait-list emails like last year? If anyone is planning to drop WUSTL please do so asap to save me from eternal waiting

ack  I hope you get that last-chance acceptance! 

[majorshake]

Waitlisted at JHU, it's the only place I'd heard back from in any way, and I've heard from everywhere else. 

Pretty close to taking myself off the waitlist though, I've got another prospect that will likely be better for me and my family in the long run. If I do, it'll prob be at the end of week after next (need to have a meeting about my PhD proposal first).

[matchamatcha]

Does anyone know if Western Ontario has sent out waitlists yet?

[Schopenhauerfanboy]

22 minutes ago, matchamatcha said:

Does anyone know if Western Ontario has sent out waitlists yet?

Could be wrong, but I think they sent out more offers than they anticipate being accepted. So several people would have to turn down offers before they started appealing to backups. That was the impression I got from talking to them..

[matchamatcha]

2 hours ago, Schopenhauerfanboy said:

Could be wrong, but I think they sent out more offers than they anticipate being accepted. So several people would have to turn down offers before they started appealing to backups. That was the impression I got from talking to them..

Damn... Thanks for the info.

[Swann]

It doesn't look like Stanford has sent any WL notification yet...

I wonder if they'll be sending those out today.

 

[Sam Anscombe]

14 minutes ago, Swann said:

It doesn't look like Stanford has sent any WL notification yet...

I wonder if they'll be sending those out today.

 

It looks like there were a few listed on the Facebook page. 

Edited March 6, 2017 by Sam Anscombe

[753982]

2 hours ago, Sam Anscombe said:

It looks like there were a few listed on the Facebook page. 

Do you have any knowledge of anyone's being waitlisted by UMich yet?

[Sam Anscombe]

14 minutes ago, 753982 said:

Do you have any knowledge of anyone's being waitlisted by UMich yet?

Based on the Facebook group, there have been a few waitlist notifications via email. People seem unsure about whether there will be another round of acceptance calls since only one round of calls went out and since UMich just returned from their Winter Break. I wish I had more information for you.

[753982]

2 minutes ago, Sam Anscombe said:

Based on the Facebook group, there have been a few waitlist notifications via email. People seem unsure about whether there will be another round of acceptance calls since only one round of calls went out and since UMich just returned from their Winter Break. I wish I had more information for you.

Interesting. Thanks for the information. I don't imagine it's likely that I was one of their better applicants, but for some reason I'm still holding on to my last bit of hope. If they continue last year's timeline rejections may go out on Thursday.

[Dialectica]

Have there been any reports—on the forum, FB, or elsewhere—of Riverside waitlists?

[Naruto]

Waitlisted at UMass Amherst!

"I am happy to report that you are on our waiting list, and that, given past history, I think that there is a reasonable chance that you will receive a fellowship offer from us with full funding."

I'll take it! This is one of my top-choice schools!

[Dialectica]

Waitlisted at UMass-Amherst. High on the waitlist. Very excited. 

[sleepingsusurrus]

10 hours ago, Dialectica said:

Waitlisted at UMass-Amherst. High on the waitlist. Very excited. 

Amherst is the cutest little town, too. I didn't even apply there but wish I did just so I could live there

[Dialectica]

Anyone have any idea what's taking Austin so long to waitlist? Have they already started and I'm just a loser?

[Ibycus]

13 minutes ago, Dialectica said:

Anyone have any idea what's taking Austin so long to waitlist? Have they already started and I'm just a loser?

Austin is driving me crazy. Why did they reject that one person a week ago? Are they going to waitlist more people? Secret waitlist? Someone mentioned on the FB group a past Austin admission on April 16th, lol. 

[Dialectica]

7 minutes ago, Ibycus said:

Austin is driving me crazy. Why did they reject that one person a week ago? Are they going to waitlist more people? Secret waitlist? Someone mentioned on the FB group a past Austin admission on April 16th, lol. 

Yeah, it's really odd. I'm assuming that was just the first wave of rejections that went out (USC has done something like that in the past, usually alphabetically, but not so spread out). 

You say "...waitlist more people..."—have they started? I haven't seen anything indicating that. But, please correct me if I'm wrong. 

And I think they are almost guaranteed to have a hidden waitlist. They've operated that way for a few years now. 

[Ibycus]

1 minute ago, Dialectica said:

Yeah, it's really odd. I'm assuming that was just the first wave of rejections that went out (USC has done something like that in the past, usually alphabetically, but not so spread out). 

You say "...waitlist more people..."—have they started? I haven't seen anything indicating that. But, please correct me if I'm wrong. 

And I think they are almost guaranteed to have a hidden waitlist. They've operated that way for a few years now. 

Oh, sorry, that wasn't clear: I meant "officially waitlist people" as opposed to just having them on a secret list. I live in Austin and it's my first choice, so I hope they don't make me suffer in uncertainty for another month....

[Dialectica]

1 minute ago, Ibycus said:

Oh, sorry, that wasn't clear: I meant "officially waitlist people" as opposed to just having them on a secret list. I live in Austin and it's my first choice, so I hope they don't make me suffer in uncertainty for another month....

Gotcha. Yeah, I'm really hoping for a waitlist there. I would think they will release their decisions pretty soon. They are already quite late as it is, relative to their release dates in the past few years. 

[Nichi]

If all the schools with secret waitlists could go ahead and send out emails letting people know if they're on such a list, that would be fantastic.

[Electric Anxiety]

15 minutes ago, Nichi said:

If all the schools with secret waitlists could go ahead and send out emails letting people know if they're on such a list, that would be fantastic.

For real...

[RumHaven]

Has anyone else been waitlisted at Princeton? I've searched through the results and seen only acceptances and rejections, plus there was a result from last year stating Princeton does not waitlist people.

For anyone interested, since this is my first post, full results:

Rejected - Yale, Harvard, UCLA, Arizona, Michigan

Waitlisted - USC, Princeton

Accepted - Oxford BPhil (but I hear the funding situation is quite bad, and it's far too expensive to do unfunded...)

Haven't heard (presumably rejected) - UNC Chapel Hill, Rutgers, NYU, Berkeley, Stanford

Edit: Just realized you guys have been putting this info in your signatures, I didn't see any of that before I made an account.

Edited March 10, 2017 by RumHaven