In the next few days everyone who initially responded to their waiting list letter with a "yes" should be getting another letter giving an update on the waiting list. A handful of students are being asked to remain on a summer waiting list in the event that we lose more enrolled students to other programs. The majority of students are being told that they don't need to wait any more—we will not have room for them. In other words, we're shrinking the waiting list to reflect our shrinking chances of being able to let in any more students.
Right now we are still overenrolled by more students than we expect to lose over the summer. Other schools said that they would take a lot of students from their waiting lists. We waited to see whether a lot of these students would be ours. Some were, but not too many.
This is the first time we've been able to update you since May 10. We've gotten a lot of calls and emails from students wanting to know their "statuses." Your new status is on its way. If you're unhappy with being released from the waiting list, all we can say is that we are sorry, but we will not add any more students to the summer waiting list. For those of you on the summer waiting list, unfortunately we cannot give you any information about your chances of being admitted later, or when that would be.
