<p>Hey,
I was waitlisted at Yale and wanted to start this thread so us wait-listers can have a place to vent/discuss.
Next month we will hear back, how many do you predict will get off?</p>
<p>(sorry if there is already a Yale 2015 waitlist thread, if there is can you direct me to it please :) )</p>
<p>Last year, I was waitlisted at H, Y, and P. One thing I noticed was that the CC waitlist thread for Harvard was very active with lots of posts, but it was pretty quiet at Yale. That seems to be true again this year.</p>
<p>It may be that Yale starts with a smaller waitlist and has a smaller percentage of people who choose to stay on the list. Harvard’s #1 reputation may make it seem so special and unique that it’s harder for people to give up their lottery ticket, even if the odds are heavily against them. There may be fewer people on the Yale waitlist who are passionately holding on in hopes of being one of the “terque beati who hear the mystic call” from New Haven. </p>
<p>If you’re hoping for positive news from Yale, good luck!</p>
<p>In my case, it seemed clear that my chances were best at P and worst at H. In the end, H was the only one I got into. I don’t expect I’ll ever know why it turned out that way, but all’s well that ends well.</p>
<p>RedlinetoHarvard wrote:
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<p>It’s impressive that someone headed to Harvard could dredge up that quotation from an old Yale song that a lot of Yalies probably wouldn’t recognize. Meanwhile, you raise an interesting question: are waitlisters at Harvard a lot more passionate than those at Yale? If so, why?</p>
<p>i’m not so sure that they’re more passionate. i DO think that – at least partly – it’s attributable to the fact that there are so many more waitlistees at harvard than at its peer schools. a few observations in that regard:</p>
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<li><p>harvard has NEVER released figures on how many people it waitlists. go check the common data sets for HYPSM. of that group, ONLY harvard is mum on the number of waitlistees. </p></li>
<li><p>the NYT provides evidence for the claim made by many that harvard is unusual in not posting its waitlist figures. see the New York Times college blog “The Choice” and its post this week about waitlist figures. [Waiting</a> Lists Have Plenty of Company - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/waiting-list-2011/]Waiting”>Waiting Lists Have Plenty of Company - The New York Times) there are 60 schools listed and the blog lists only 5 schools as not providing waitlist figures for 2011 and 2010 (brown, harvard, carleton, tufts and WashU, – although brown has the waitlist number for last year on its common data set). </p></li>
<li><p>anecdotally, it looks as though harvard waitlists A LOT more students than its peers. I say that b/c i live in a large urban area and i know over 10 students who were waitlisted at harvard, and only 1 who was offered a spot on the waitlist at princeton, 0 at yale and 1 at stanford. harvard is 1/3 larger than either yale or princeton, but it’s not enough larger to account for the surfeit in waitlistees. that’s especially true given its yield. i should mention that the imbalance is NOT b/c fewer kids in my circles were applying to each of the other schools. it’s just that on march 30th those other schools said “yes” or “no” to them. this “over-waitlisting” by H could be a quirk of my peer group, of course, but note also that my friends and I have watched the same thing happen for the last two years. before that, we weren’t paying attention! ;-)</p></li>
<li><p>i think it could make some marketing sense for harvard to waitlist a ton of students. as a high school sophomore or junior, you see a senior who “almost made it into harvard” and, if you’re not blown away by their credentials, you think that you might as well apply the next year yourself. so it may encourage more applications…i definitely can’t see how it would keep down application numbers.</p></li>
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<p>So whenabouts do they announce their decisions, does anyone know? based on previous years of course</p>
<p>well according to last year’s thread ppl started getting calls around May 8th telling them they were accepted off the waitlist…it’s really nerve-wracking</p>
<p>Did they actually get a phone call or email?</p>
<p>From what I gathered they got a phone call first telling them they got accepted off the wait list and that their Eli account would change to “accepted student.” I’m sure that later after the call they got an e-mail.
You have no idea how much I’m freaking out :(</p>
<p>has anyone gotten a call?</p>
<p>Good luck guys. I turned down Yale and hope that one of you gets my spot. :)</p>
<p>it’s sunday, so probably no calls today. correct me if I’m wrong?</p>
<p>amanguy, i believe your assumption is correct. However, I know that Yale supposedly releases its waitlist decisions much earlier the Harvard (which is around May 19th). So we can probably expect to hear within the next few days…</p>
<p>anyone hear anything yet? According to last year’s thread, they should have started calling this weekend</p>
<p>Considering that no one has gotten phone calls or word from the waitlist, can we assume that the Yale yield is high enough and there not looking to take people off the waitlist?</p>
<p>Possibly, I suppose, would they not send us an email to let us know this is so?</p>
<p>I guess so… it probably comes down to someone calling the admissions office and asking them about it.</p>
<p>To be fair, it’s only 10AM in New Haven, perhaps wait for a day, and then call</p>
<p>No, it should be 1:15 there…</p>
<p>Right? 10char</p>
<p>We should probably wait until the end of the day. If the yield was high like two years ago then they will send out an e-mail, if not then someone can call tomorrow. We should probably give them a week or so after May 1st.
Last year, May 1st landed on a Saturday so they were able to start reviewing waitlist applications starting Saturday. This year May 1st landed on a Sunday, so they had to wait till Monday to review applications. Maybe/Possibly that is the cause for the delay in phone calls.
Only problem is I’m not a patient person so this is killing me.</p>