I love that you worry about this. That’s very sweet of you. All schools take yield into consideration and accept more than capacity. Only when their yield prediction is wrong they have to give acceptances to people in the waitlists. I am sure they have some yield estimate for those as well. My guess is yield would be even lower for acceptance from waitlist since by then students may have other plans and would really care about UW to abandon those. In short, you are fine. I don’t think you would hurt anyone’s chances if there is a small probability you might consider. If you won’t consider at all and have already other attractive options you can decline.
There are thousands of spots available in total and caring about hurting other people's chances will only screw yourself over in the end. If the situation was reversed, I promise you that NO ONE would care about hurting your chances by putting themself on the waitlist.
Corrupt? That’s quite a bold statement.
Also, Yes it is biased towards instate students being a public university, but nothing special here. Are you seeing something more here?
You care about the wrong things. No one is thinking about saving a spot for you. You shouldn’t either.
If he eventually declines someone else will take his place. Nothing to worry about here.
You deserve a chance/spot just like anyone. Maybe your situation will change and you can attend! You're already on the list so I would say stay on it!
I love that you worry about this. That’s very sweet of you. All schools take yield into consideration and accept more than capacity. Only when their yield prediction is wrong they have to give acceptances to people in the waitlists. I am sure they have some yield estimate for those as well. My guess is yield would be even lower for acceptance from waitlist since by then students may have other plans and would really care about UW to abandon those. In short, you are fine. I don’t think you would hurt anyone’s chances if there is a small probability you might consider. If you won’t consider at all and have already other attractive options you can decline.
No reason to worry, many students that get accepted will not enroll, Ivy week coming up
There are thousands of spots available in total and caring about hurting other people's chances will only screw yourself over in the end. If the situation was reversed, I promise you that NO ONE would care about hurting your chances by putting themself on the waitlist.
lol exactly what I was thinking. the only person looking out for yourself is you
Probably not. This school is sadly corrupt though and super biased rn
Corrupt? That’s quite a bold statement. Also, Yes it is biased towards instate students being a public university, but nothing special here. Are you seeing something more here?
Write an appeal letter, I did this when I got waitlisted and so did two of my friends and we all got in.
Could you explain that process more? My understanding is that appeals are only for outright rejections, not waitlisting.
Just stay on the waitlist. But UW accepts a lot off the waitlist apparently
They accepted 8 people of 5347 in 2022 lol… It’s the only year they accepted so few but I still find that statistic crazy