1. What's the meaning of waiting list? Waiting list generally exists to enable schools to achieve the expected goal of class size. In order to prevent the enrollment of too many students from exceeding the school's receiving capacity, schools will generally be more cautious when sending advertisements directly, and will not send too many. However, schools may also face another problem in doing so-recruiting dissatisfaction. Because most students apply for more than one school, many admitted students will choose to go to other schools. Even about 1% of those who have been admitted to Harvard Business School have not finally enrolled, so the waiting list is of great significance to any school-it gives the school enough space to adjust the number of AD distributed. For example, a major in a school is expected to recruit 8 students this year, and 9 AD will be issued first, of which 7 students will inform the school to decide to enroll. At this time, the school will start to select some from the waiting list and turn them into AD, so as to finally recruit 8 people.
2. why did I receive the waiting list? There are many possible reasons for receiving the waiting list. Here, Xiaofang will give you some of the most common situations: A. You have met the admission requirements of the school in all aspects, but you are not good enough for the school to want to admit you very much. However, the conditions are not bad, and you also make the school reluctant to refuse directly and ruthlessly, so you are put into the waiting list to wait and see. B. The school has already distributed enough AD before. This situation is more common in projects with more than one round of application for deADline and projects based on Rolling admission (the meaning of rolling is: the school does not try all the applicant's materials after arriving at a certain deadline, but starts the trial as soon as it receives all the materials of an applicant, and sends an ad when it feels that conditions permit, in short, it is first come first served). So sometimes even if you are excellent in all aspects, the school can't admit you directly, because there may not be enough space. At this time, I can only sigh: I am too late. TOTc.Waiting list sometimes stands for euphemistic refusal, and some schools even basically regard WL as a refusal of credit. The undergraduate enrollment of Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) is a model of Haifa waiting list. It is said that they will put 1, people into the waiting list every year, and finally only admit more than 1, students. In this case, once it is put into the waiting list, the probability of being finally admitted is infinitely close to . 3. Is it possible for me to be admitted to the waiting list? If you are in the situation of A and B mentioned in the previous question, generally speaking, the probability of becoming a full member is quite expected. As long as there are enough people who are admitted not to go to this school, you will have great hope! Because in this case, people in WL meet the school admission standards, and there is only the problem of space. If it's unfortunate that it's case C, er ... Xiaofang feels that it's not completely impossible to pray for Buddha and forward it to koi fish for good luck. 4. How long do I have to wait before I can be admitted? As for the time to become a full member, each school is different, and most schools will consider enrolling students on WL after all the admissions are completed. For example, Rochester, a popular business school, made it clear that WL applicants should not be considered for regularization until the third round of admission results have been issued. Therefore, it is generally late for the waiting list to become a full member. Last year, some students who applied to Duke and UVa (University of Virginia) business schools said that they didn't finally come back from the waiting list until mid-May. However, there are exceptions to everything. This year, more than one student who applied for UMD (University of Maryland) Business School in the first round said that he had only been on the waiting list for two days before he got a formal AD. Xiao Fang speculated that it may be that many students immediately told UMD that they would not enroll, and this kind of "second to positive" situation will occur.
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5. What can I do to increase the chances of waiting list turning into AD?
just because you have p>Waiting List your name doesn't mean that all you can do is waiting. Xiao Fang believes that it is better to take the initiative to fight for it than to wait and die, especially for the goddess school that you really want to go to. Here are the following confessions for students' reference:
1. Send an email back to the school indicating that you are willing to wait on the waiting list, or you can ask the school about its ranking on this waiting list, because some schools will queue up students in the waiting list, although not many schools will do so. 2. If the school doesn't reply to your ranking on the waiting list, then you should collect information on your own in many ways and try to get a general idea of how many people have been put into the waiting list this time (sometimes you can find WL's QQ group). For projects with a small enrollment, you can even know whether one of the few offer holders intends to choose to go to other schools. This information will help you estimate the probability that this WL will be turned positive. For WL with high probability of becoming a full member, it is also very motivating to work hard ~3. Keep in touch with the school actively, and update your information by email, such as GRE, GMAT, TOEFL or internship experience. To convey to the school: I really want to be admitted. In order to get this admission, I have been trying to improve myself to meet the admission requirements of the school. If the school allows, sending additional letters of recommendation is also a way to consider. Students who are more confident in their own writing can write to the school to "show loyalty"-moving with emotion and understanding with reason. If you can just impress an admissions officer who can decide "life and death", then congratulations! 4. Try to contact the students you know who are studying this project. An applicant who was once admitted to the waitinglist of the MBA program of Kellogg Business School of Northwest University contacted an undergraduate alumnus who was studying in the program through his own network, and the alumnus promised to recommend him to the admission committee. In the following months, the alumnus went to the admissions office for him many times to "take care of" this matter, and finally the persistent applicant was successfully admitted. 5. You can also try to contact the students who applied for the AD this time but made it clear that they would not go, and invite them to recommend you. However, the effectiveness of this recommendation is much weaker than that of the students who are studying. 6. Take the AD of other schools to "demonstrate". However, there are certain risks in doing so, and some schools may even think that since you have gone to school, there is no need to rush to admit you. If you really want to do this, Xiao Fang suggested that you should pay attention to your sincere words and avoid arrogance and rudeness. You can specify your situation in the email. For example, if you send an email to school A, you can say: You have been admitted to school B, and they ask you to pay a large deposit before a certain month. And you want to go to school A most, so I hope to get an early reply. 7. In addition to the above-mentioned common measures, there are of course various WL coping strategies. Especially the creative American students, their tactics to deal with WL are eye-opening (it's really hard to become a full member). Some applicants go all the way to the campus, facing the strong desire of "I really want to go to this school" to the admissions officer; In history, a classmate of WL at Emory University re-wrote Emory's school song, and was finally admitted (of course, there were also many people who wrote songs and poems). More interestingly, some students sent desserts and pineapples to the admissions office for "bribery", but the admissions office made it clear that they would not accept this set.
7. What should be noted in dealing with WL is: a. Abide by the regulations of the school. Some schools only allow you to update your resume or score, so if you send a few additional letters of recommendation to the school, it will not only have a positive impact on admission, but also make the school think that you have not read their regulations carefully or even disobeyed the rules at all. B avoid pestering, pay attention to the frequency and way of contacting the school, and don't make the school feel bored. An Ivy League official once said that the mother of a WL student had bombed them by phone for two months in a row, making several phone calls every day, and the admissions office could hardly bear it. C. patience, patience is also an important accomplishment and quality of a person, and it is forbidden to show your impatience in the process of school contact. D. don't put all your eggs in one basket and expect miracles too much. Statistics show that most of the students who were WL didn't get admission to the school. If you don't want to go to this school, then Xiaofang suggests that you should choose to pay the deposit of a school before other acquired AD expires.
Conclusion: Application is such a process. Maybe you feel that you have done your best in all aspects, but you have not been admitted to Dream School in the end. The same is true for dealing with WL. Maybe you think that you have tried your best, but in the end you failed to be the lucky one on the waiting list.