Offers to Students on the Wait List Begin
Now that May 1 has come and gone, we are pleased to announce that we will now begin admitting students from the wait list. This process could take as little as a few weeks or could take more time, depending on when we are able to close the Class of 2016. To those of you on the wait list, we appreciate your patience and encourage you to continue demonstrating interest when contacted by our office should you wish to remain active. Likewise, please let us know if you’ve already committed to another university.
Should you be selected for admission from the wait list, you will receive a call from our office to ascertain your continued interest in attending Vanderbilt. If interest is confirmed, you will receive your official offer of admission via email within 24 hours, followed by an admissions packet sent Priority Mail. At this point, you will have one week from the date of the email to respond. Moreover, you will receive your financial aid package via email within another business day if you applied for need-based financial aid.
Please continue to remember the following items regarding the wait list process:
- As we’ve stated previously, the wait list is not ranked, so there’s no need to inquire about your place on the list.
- We admit students into the four undergraduate schools and the incoming classes of all four schools will likely include students from the wait list.
- Offers are extended on a permeable timetable that changes each year in an effort to prevent over-enrollment at The Martha Rivers Ingram Commons. Rest assured that this isn’t meant to frustrate anyone – it’s simply the nature of the process.
- All wait list active students will receive notification by email once the class is officially closed.
In closing, it’s worth quoting my colleague Carolyn Pippen, who, in the aforementioned post summed up the OUA’s overall sentiment on the wait list, “… we want to make it clear that this offer is a testament to our belief that you would, in fact, be a valuable and successful addition to the Class of 2016.” We stand by these words despite the reality that we can’t admit everyone off the wait list – you comprise an absolutely phenomenal cohort of intellectually curious, high-achieving, service-minded young leaders. Again, thank you for your patience and for allowing us to get to know you. This admissions cycle has proven to be unforgettable.
May 3rd, 2012
Will you be calling tomorrow too or is today it for the week until you hear from people you offered places to?
May 4th, 2012
We will continue to make offers from our wait list until we close the Class of 2016, which typically occurs by mid-July. You will remain active on our wait list unless you notify us that you would like to be removed. Otherwise, we will inform everyone once the class has been closed. We appreciate your continued patience.
May 3rd, 2012
Hi. What happens if we do.not pick up the phone when vamderbilt calls because we are put of.the house or not near our cell.phone? Did we miss our chance on the waitlist??
May 4th, 2012
No, but you should try to call us back the same day if at all possible. Or, at the latest, early the next business day.
May 4th, 2012
Have all calls been made? If I did not recieve any call until now, does that mean I am not admitted during the first wave?
May 4th, 2012
We will continue to make offers from our wait list until we close the Class of 2016, which typically occurs by mid-July. You will remain active on our wait list unless you notify us that you would like to be removed. Otherwise, we will inform everyone once the class has been closed. We appreciate your continued patience.
May 3rd, 2012
Are the wait list calls staggered? If we didn’t hear from them today do we have a chance of still being accepted in the first wave of wait list?
May 4th, 2012
We will continue to make offers from our wait list until we close the Class of 2016, which typically occurs by mid-July. You will remain active on our wait list unless you notify us that you would like to be removed. Otherwise, we will inform everyone once the class has been closed. We appreciate your continued patience.
May 3rd, 2012
got my call this morning! Couldn’t have been more excited!!!!
May 4th, 2012
I don’t have a machine on my home phone. Are you calling all numbers in the application, or an e-mail saying you are trying to get in touch?
May 4th, 2012
We will call all numbers in an application and will only use email as a last resort.
May 4th, 2012
Hi, Dose Vandy e-mails to those who get off the waitlist? I might miss the phone because I am international, and maybe I will never know that vandy calls. Gotta kill myself if that happens..
May 4th, 2012
We’ll try every form of communication available for each student. International students will almost always be emailed their notification unless we have a domestic phone number of some kind available to us.
May 4th, 2012
Any news on the transfer waitlist?
May 4th, 2012
Transfers are admitted on a rolling basis, so there is not one particular date when we begin admitting transfers from that wait list. Transfer students will be notified via letter if they are offered admission from the wait list. At this point, we have not begun admitting transfers from the wait list.
May 4th, 2012
Will any offers of admissions to waitlisted students be given next week or has the first wave ended?
May 4th, 2012
We will continue to make offers from our wait list until we close the Class of 2016, which typically occurs by mid-July. You will remain active on our wait list unless you notify us that you would like to be removed. Otherwise, we will inform everyone once the class has been closed. We appreciate your continued patience.
May 4th, 2012
Can we continue to send important additional material/information until the class closes or is there a deadline?
May 7th, 2012
Technically, no, there is no deadline outside the date when the class is closed. I would add that we only encourage students to submit additional information if what’s being submitted is new and, in that classification, a substantial update of some kind.
May 4th, 2012
Hey. Are all of the phone calls being made today, or are there also phone calls going out Monday as well? Thanks!
May 4th, 2012
As stated in the blog, the process operates on a permeable timetable, so everyone will not find their decision out at the same time.
May 4th, 2012
Did any additional students get accepted off the waitlist today? Will the process continue into next week?
May 4th, 2012
We will continue to make offers from our wait list until we close the Class of 2016, which typically occurs by mid-July. You will remain active on our wait list unless you notify us that you would like to be removed. Otherwise, we will inform everyone once the class has been closed. We appreciate your continued patience.
May 6th, 2012
Got in through the waitlist, so pumped to be going all the way from New York City to Nashville, See you all there!
May 6th, 2012
Greetings!
If you are a transfer student on a wait-list, are you supposed to receive a call as well? Also, When will Vanderbilt start notifying transfers students, in a wai-list, of their decision?
Thank you!
May 7th, 2012
Transfers are admitted on a rolling basis, so there is not one particular date when we begin admitting transfers from that wait list. Transfer students will be notified via letter if they are offered admission from the wait list.
May 6th, 2012
Are offers off the waitlist being offered to transfer students as well at this point?
May 18th, 2012
While the process for evaluating transfer students who have been placed on the wait list has begun and is ongoing, we have not at this point made any offers to those students.
May 6th, 2012
Does this include calling wait list applicants that are transfer students or is this just for incoming freshmen at this time?
May 7th, 2012
Transfers are admitted on a rolling basis, so there is not one particular date when we begin admitting transfers from that wait list. Transfer students will be notified via letter if they are offered admission from the wait list.
May 9th, 2012
Is it just me, or is this worse than waiting for decision day?
May 11th, 2012
Yes….. Yes it is.
May 9th, 2012
Are the waves of admission sent out every week on one day or do you do it throughout the week???
May 9th, 2012
We do not have a preset schedule for when and how often we will be making wait list offers. We will be making calls throughout May and possibly into the summer depending on the matriculation rate and the various needs of the school.
May 10th, 2012
Hi,
As Transfers wait-listed, are we going to receive a notification in the mail regardless of the decision? Or, Will Vanderbilt only send notifications in the mail to those who receive admissions offers?
May 10th, 2012
Yes, eventually you will receive a letter via mail regardless of your decision.
May 10th, 2012
I have just been recently accepted off the wait-list into the Class of 2016. I received an email in which I had to print out an acceptance letter and mail it to the Office of Admissions along with the matriculation fee (which I did). Then two days later I get the Open ‘Dores booklet which contained another acceptance letter (saying I need to send my acceptance by May 14) and a pre-paid business envelope… What should I do? Send another letter saying I have accepted the offer or just depend on the one I originally sent along with the matriculation fee.
May 11th, 2012
The original one you sent will suffice. We send the candidate reply form both electronically and by mail to wait-listed students to ensure it gets back to us on time, but you only need to return one copy.
May 11th, 2012
About how many students get accepted form the wait list per day ?
May 11th, 2012
There is no defined amount of students admitted off the wait list per day. The process ebbs and flows depending on matriculation of students with offers in hand and other factors.
May 16th, 2012
Are students being admitted off the wait list this week? The silence is deafening.
May 16th, 2012
Thanks for your continued patience. As we’ve said previously, we do not have a preset schedule for when and how often we will be making wait list offers. We will be making calls throughout May and possibly into the summer depending on the matriculation rate and the various needs of the school.
May 17th, 2012
What I don’t understand is that VU must have years and years of data on how many people need to be contacted to fill a certain number of positions. The practice of drawing this out over months must negatively impact the students attitude toward the school, and fewer would accept the appointment as time passes. This seems counter-productive.
May 17th, 2012
Whats the latest on the transfer wait list? I would imagine a relatively large amount of the transfer class is being filled now and smaller numbers will be accepted into July?
May 17th, 2012
The transfer wait list process will continue to depend on the matriculation of our admitted students and the specific needs of each of our undergraduate schools. Because transfers are admitted on a rolling basis, it would be nearly impossible to predict when the bulk of these offers will be made or what types of trends we expect.
May 17th, 2012
Interesting but I had a different question on the transfer wait list. Typically do a significant amount of transfer students on the wait list get accepted? Have you sent out transfer acceptances to wait listed students yet? Thank you.
May 17th, 2012
The number of students admitted off of the wait list varies significantly from year to year, for the reasons stated above. We have not yet begun that process this year.
May 18th, 2012
But I read in an earlier post by Ryan in this blog, that at this point, some transfer students had already been admitted off the wait-list. What does this mean now???
May 18th, 2012
While the process for evaluating transfer students who have been placed on the wait list has begun and is ongoing, we have not at this point made any offers to those students.
May 18th, 2012
Do you know how many Transfer applicants have been wait-listed at this point???
In just a broad average, does Vanderbilt put many, or just a few, transfers on wailist each year?
I ask this because I have been told in the past that Vanderbilt only puts a small group of people in a wait-list, the ones that are best fit to receive admissions, given that the university does not want to give hopes to somebody that might never come off the list.
May 18th, 2012
I cannot give an estimated number of students currently on the wait list, as that number fluctuates throughout the process. Similarly the number of students we wait-list each year varies significantly in both the transfer and freshmen applicant pool. As is always the case within our process, wait list offers are extended to students that we feel would be excellent candidate for admission, but for whom we simply do not have a spot available at that time.
May 17th, 2012
Have there been any updates concerning the wait list this week?
May 18th, 2012
We are still in the process of assessing our matriculation numbers and making offers of admission accordingly.
May 18th, 2012
Will you post on this website when Vanderbilt stops admitting freshman off the waitlist? ie – when the Fall class is full and waitlist is closed?
May 18th, 2012
Students on the freshman wait list will be informed via email when the class is closed.
May 18th, 2012
Is there a rough date of when offers will begin to be made off the waitlist for tranfer students? I understand you do not want to speculate because there are many factors involved, but I feel even slighty speculated information is better than none at all.This is a very difficult waiting period if you can imagine. Thank you!
May 18th, 2012
As you guessed, we are unable to speculate at this point when those offers might begin. I understand that this is a stressful time, and we will release as much information as we can as soon as it becomes available.
May 21st, 2012
Hi, some time ago, I saw on the College Board’s website that Vanderbilt admitted a number of 366 transfers students out of a pool of 1,151 applicants last year; however, only 198 applicants actually enrolled.
I guess my question is, why didn’t Vanderbilt fill up the remaining 168 available spots with those that were on a wait-list, or with the ones that applied after the deadline??
May 21st, 2012
As with freshman applicants, Vanderbilt intentionally over-admits transfer students with the understanding that not all of them will enroll. It is likely that several of those admitted students did indeed come off of the wait list after our initially admitted students either accepted or declined their offers to fill the 198 spots we had available.
May 25th, 2012
Any update on Transfers wait-list at this point? Any information will be helpful!
May 25th, 2012
We have no further updates at this point. If you are admitted off of the wait list, or if the class becomes full, you will be directly informed.
May 29th, 2012
Can you provide an update as to the admission of wait listed applicants?
How many openings are there? How many people on the waitlist?
How many people on the waitlist have accepted offers to attend?
How many students are wait listed for the Bio-Engineering program?
May 29th, 2012
Thanks for your continued patience. We have no additional updates at this time. As my colleague Carolyn Pippen mentioned, you will be directly informed if you are admitted off of the wait list or if the class becomes full.
May 29th, 2012
can you provide any of the numbers for the Bio-engineering program, such as how many are applicants are on wait list for this program?
Is the bio-engineering program full?
May 29th, 2012
No, it is our policy to refrain from publishing this type of data while the wait list process is still in motion. Thanks again for your continued patience.
June 2nd, 2012
Has any student from the transfer wait-list been offered admissions at this point? Please need any info that is possible! Thank you
June 4th, 2012
Any updates regarding the transfer wait-list at this point?
June 4th, 2012
We have no further updates at this point. If you are admitted off of the wait list, or if the class becomes full, you will be directly informed.
June 4th, 2012
Hello,
As Transfer students in a wait-list, would it be beneficial for us if we send a “Letter of Interest” to the admissions committee in regard of our interest to attend Vanderbilt? (I spoke with the lady in the admissions office front desk, and she told me that I needed to send a “letter of interest”)
Thank You.
June 4th, 2012
As a student on the transfer wait list, you are welcome to submit a letter of interest to your admissions counselor, but it is not required. While we do take demonstrated interest into account at this point in the process, the decision will still be based mostly on your academic record and the other pieces of your original application.
June 18th, 2012
God! The wait is so agonizing!! Has anybody been admitted off the Transfer wait-list at this point? Please, any info is sure helpful… Thanks….
June 20th, 2012
Thanks for your patience. We can tell you that we have not yet closed the class and, unless they’ve informed us otherwise, wait listed students will remain on the wait list until either an offer of admission is made or the class is closed.
June 20th, 2012
Ok….I appreciate your reply, it gives us some guidance during this very difficult process. Please, do not hesitate to inform us of any update that might come in the future. Thank you.
June 28th, 2012
If the student is a transfer student that has been waitlisted and does NOT get offered admission, does Vanderbilt still notify them?
June 29th, 2012
Absolutely. Both first year and transfer students currently on our waitlist will be notified via email that we are closing the waitlist.
June 29th, 2012
I am a parent of a student on wait list. I have to pay the tutition for the college he is currently enrolled to attend by JULY 1. When will the final wait list decisions be made? it is very difficult on us as a family as to what to do. I will lose the money I pay to the other college if my son is accepted to Vanderbilt. Please advise.
June 29th, 2012
While we are hoping to close the incoming class within the next week or so, we do not yet have a definitive timeline for those still on the wait list. I understand that this is a difficult decision for your family to make, but it is unlikely that you will receive a decision from us by July 1.
July 5th, 2012
I was told by my admission counselor that you guys would be closing the wait list by July 4th for transfer students, any update on that?
July 5th, 2012
Though we expect to close the transfer and first-year class soon, we do not have a definite timetable for doing so. All applicants will be informed once this has definitively happened.
July 6th, 2012
Will you notify the transfer students who are on wait list by email or mail? Btw, is the transfer wait list still open?
July 9th, 2012
Notification that the class is closed will come via email and, at this point, the class is not yet closed, though we anticipate it will be soon.
July 12th, 2012
Hello! I am a student on the waiting list for the Class of 2016 at Vanderbilt, and I remain very hopeful to become a part of the Commodore community if at all possible. However, I have not heard any definitive news on the state of the waiting list in the last month or so- since the most recent email update in early June. Are any more offers being made at this point, and if so, approximately how many more are anticipated to be made? Additionally, what is the best way for me to express my continued interest? Thank you in advance!
July 12th, 2012
Thanks for your question. We anticipate closing the Class of 2016 very soon, at which point all applicants will be made aware. If you wish to express continued interest, however, that would be best conveyed through your admissions counselor.
July 16th, 2012
Is there any information that you can provide besides “we anticipate closing the class of 2016 very soon…” It is extremely frustrating waiting every minute for that call.
July 23rd, 2012
The Class of 2016 is now closed: http://admissions.vanderbilt.edu/vandybloggers/2012/07/vanderbilt%E2%80%99s-class-of-2016-is-now-closed/