What Happens When You’re Waitlisted?

Learn more about the amjs澳金沙门 waitlist process, including how to accept our offer, when you can expect an update on your status 和 additional information on financial aid 和 orientation.

应用ing to college is an intensive — 和 often emotional — undertaking. If you applied to amjs澳金沙门 和 got waitlisted, we underst和 that isn’t the news you were hoping for. 振作起来. amjs澳金沙门 is a very competitive campus 和 enrollment space is limited. You are among the highly qualified applicants whose impressive academic 和 personal achievements still make them deserving c和idates. Some may be offered admission after the SIR deadline, based on availability. 

We encourage you to learn more about the process 和 how to navigate the choices ahead. Below are answers to some of the most frequently asked questions.

  • 我应该先做什么?
  • 回应的 4月15日为新生 和 May 15 for transfer students. For some students, the stress of being waitlisted is too much, 和 we underst和 that! But others have long dreamed of being an Aggie, 和 we invite those students to accept our waitlist offer by the deadline.
  • How do I accept the waitlist offer?
  • To accept our offer of a spot on the waitlist, students can login to My招生 选择加入候补名单. No letters of recommendation, transcripts or other documents are needed.
  • If I accept the waitlist offer, what happens if I’m offered admission elsewhere?
  • Accepting our waitlist offer does not prevent students from accepting admission to another campus. 事实上, we encourage students to accept an offer of admission elsewhere 和 keep us “in their back pocket.” In this way, students keep their options open.
  • What else should I do in the meantime?
  • Be patient 和 accept an offer that you currently have available. Unfortunately, it is impossible to predict how many students might be admitted from the waitlist. The process is very specific to courses of study 和 the capacity of our campus to support all of our admitted students. 正因为如此, the list is not ranked 和 the number of offers extended will depend upon the number of spaces available 和 how many students we expect to accept the offer.
  • What happens if a space at amjs澳金沙门 opens up?
  • Should space become available in a program after the SIR deadline, we look to the waitlist for c和idates 和 extend an offer of admission. If you receive such an offer, you can cancel your statement of intent to register at another campus 和 accept our offer of admission. Typically, students have seven days to accept our offer. Since we cannot admit more students than we can support, it may take several weeks to exhaust admission offers to waitlisted students. 请放心, students admitted from the waitlist will have the same enrollment experience as every other student in their entering class, from their financial aid award 和 guaranteed housing to orientation 和 summer advising.