This year Penn waitlisted 3,000 students (500 fewer than last year), of which 1,800 chose to remain on the list, reports a Daily Pennsylvanian article. As of last week, only 40 students from the waitlist have been admitted (compared to last year’s 100 and the previous year’s 180).
Other Ivy League schools find themselves in a similar situation—that is, with a large waiting list and not much hope of handing out many more acceptances.
Harvard, for example, expects to admit between 65 and 75 students from its waitlist, while Dartmouth may disregard its list entirely and not accept any more students.
Many students are anxious about their waitlist prospects, but many are trying to move forward and make decisions that aren’t based on waitlist results since they know chances are slim for waitlist admittance this year.
According to Steve Singer, director of college counseling at the Bronx’s Horace Mann School, the students who are most likely to be accepted off the waitlist this far along in the game, “are probably the ones who pay full tuition,” because “given a tough economy, more colleges have to think that way.”
Related Accepted.com Resources:
- Waiting Around for Less-than-Hopeful Waitlist Results, a blog post.
- “Surviving Each Other During the Senior Year,” a free article.
- How to Write Great College Application Essays and STAY SANE!, an instantly downloadable ebook.
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