Waitlist Admit Offers Start Today
For much of the day yesterday, my colleagues and I reviewed the status of our deposits and the good news is that we are right where we wanted to be at this point. As I’ve mentioned before, it was always our intention to go to our waitlist at some point and I can now tell you that we will start contacting students as early as this morning.
These offers of admission operate in quite a different fashion as all other decision cycles. We actually call you on the phone either at home or on your cell (if you provided it to us) to ask you if you would like to be admitted. Here’s how it works:
- Students selected to be admitted from the waitlist will be called on the phone by their assigned admissions officer. We call using the phone numbers provided on the student’s application, and we will continue calling until we can reach the student.
- Once we have the student on the phone, we will indicate that we would like to offer him or her admission to the Vanderbilt 2014 class and will ask if he or she is still interested in being offered admission.
- If the student says yes they would like to be admitted, an emailed offer of admission will be sent to the student within 24 hours.
- If the student applied for need-based financial aid (and the Office of Student Financial Aid and Undergraduate Scholarships has received all necessary application materials) the student will be emailed an estimated financial aid offer. The emailed offer of admission and financial aid offer should arrive on the same day. We will also mail hard copies of everything to the student.
- Once we email you all your admission materials, you must respond within 7 days. If you wish to accept our offer of admission, we must receive your reply form and matriculation deposit within 7 days of the receipt of your emailed offer of admission.
- Students who either did not apply for need-based financial aid, or did not have a complete financial aid application, will not receive the financial aid offer email. If you are admitted and do not receive an offer of need-based financial aid, and you thought you had applied, contact the financial aid office.
If you are not called in this round, it does not mean that we ultimately won’t call. Remember we do this in small waves in order to guage the response and see how deposits come back in. We do all of this to make every effort to not over-enroll our class, which is hugely important at Vanderbilt due to of having all first-year students in the Commons.
Congratulations to all newly admitted Commodores!
May 5th, 2010
Wow this is exciting!! Good luck to everybody!!
May 5th, 2010
Thanks for letting us know.
I’m hoping and waiting.^_^
May 5th, 2010
As the parent of someone who made it in last year off of the wait list, I can tell you this. The waiting was hard. The call, when it came, put the biggest smile on our daughter’s face that I’ve ever seen. The Vanderbilt experience has been and continues to be fantastic. Vanderbilt cares, right down to this wonderful blog that kept our hopes and dreams alive last year until the admissions call came. Our family is with you as you wait. Thanks to Thom for the great updates last year and for what will be done this year to build the Class of 2014. – A grateful alumnus.
May 5th, 2010
Thanks once again for the information.
I just left Katie the message and her fingers are crossed!
May 5th, 2010
I provided both my home number and my cell phone number, but our house phone doesn’t work anymore. The number still works, but the actual handheld is broken. Is it certain that they will call your cell number as well?
May 5th, 2010
if we don’t get a call today does that mean that we are still on the waitlist or will you be calling tomorrow too?
May 5th, 2010
Thanks for the update! I Hoping to get that phone call!
May 5th, 2010
Basically any thing that I could cross is crossed.
May 5th, 2010
Wow, thanks for letting us know! Now all there’s left to do is hope!!
May 5th, 2010
Will all the calling be done today for the first round or will it be a few days?
May 5th, 2010
Out of curiosity, do admissions officers leave messages on our home or cell phones or do they keep calling until they get a hold of us?
May 5th, 2010
Is there a specific time frame for the first wave of waitlist admission offers?
May 5th, 2010
I got in! I wonder how many people they called, my friend got in too.
May 5th, 2010
When do the first round of calls stop? Am i supposed to keep waiting after today?
May 6th, 2010
Is all first round calling done now, or are more calls still being made?
May 7th, 2010
I have quite literally crossed every hair on my head, in addition to crossing every one of my appendages. I’ll be waiting hopefully for a call!
May 12th, 2010
I hate talking on the phone, but I have not wanted the phone to ring so bad in my entire life! I cannot wait to hear back from Vanderbilt
May 13th, 2010
when does the second wave start? the third wave? how long until most of the spots will be filled up?
May 19th, 2010
Have you started w/ calls for the Transfer Waitlist too?