<p>well, i got wait listed, and on the letter, it says:</p>
<p>after careful consideration of your application to oberlin's college of aarts and sciences, the admissions committe has decided to place you on our wait list. we sincerely hope that a space will open up and that you will be able to join oberlin's class of 2011. this was one of the most competitive years fro admission in the college's history. we received over 5700 applications to fill a first year class of about 620.</p>
<p>620 out of 5700????? that's like impossible, right???</p>
<p>That is up slightly from last year, according to a January 2006 article that said:
"For example, the number of applications received by Oberlin College in Ohio has increased 45 percent during the past eight years. Oberlin received 3,819 applications in 1999 and more than 5,500 this year, said Scott [Wargo]."
The Conservatory had over 1,400 applicants.</p>
<p>The number of applicants seems to have been slightly higher in 2001 -- so the admission rate, assuming they admitted 1,800 again, is still around 30 percent:</p>
<p>"05-16-2001
(The Oberlin Review) (U-WIRE) OBERLIN, Ohio -- Oberlin College received 5,859 applicants this year -- its largest applicant pool ever -- and accepted 1,800. This allowed the College to be much more selective than in the past: the acceptance yield was 30 percent, down from 48 percent last year."</p>
<p>They accept 1800, not 620, because not all of them will choose to go to Oberlin, so it's 1800/5700</p>
<p>u should have looked at skidmore's ..they claim to have received 6800 applicants for a class of around 700.....! doesn't that decrease their acceptance to abt. 10% :)</p>
<p>Not quite. You have to consider that not everyone who is accepted to a school actually decides to go there. The school has to accept more students than their target class size so that they will end up with approximately the number they want. In their 2006 Common Data Set, Skidmore reports</p>
<p>6652 applicants
2578 admitted
672 enrolled</p>
<p>That would make their acceptance rate about 38.8% (= 2578/6652) and their yield about 26.1% (=672/2578).</p>
<p>In addition, they offered 1394 students a place on the waitlist, 877 of them chose to remain on the waitlist and only 1 student was admitted off the waitlist.</p>
<p>The corresponding numbers from Oberlin's (College and Conservatory combined) 2006 Common Data Set are:</p>
<p>6686 applicants
2266 admitted (33.9% acceptance rate)
718 enrolled (31.7% yield)</p>
<p>846 offered waitlist
600 accepted waitlist
33 enrolled from waitlist.</p>
<p>Oberlin College alone was:
5552 applicants
2035 admits (36.7% acceptance rate)
621 enrolls including those enrolled in both the College and Con (30.5% yield)</p>
<p>Oberlin Conservatory alone was:
1132 applicants
311 admits (27.5% acceptance rate)
138 enrolls including those enrolled in both the College and Con (44.4% yield)</p>
<p>There were 40 students enrolled in both the College and Con. The numbers came from a couple of different sources, which is why the separate numbers for the Con and College do not quite add up to the totals reported in the CDS.</p>
<p>so basically, only 26% of accepted people choose to attend??</p>
<p>That is correct, at least for Skidmore last year. People are applying to a lot of schools on average these days and frequently have 4-5 acceptances among which to choose.</p>
<p>so i shouldnt have any hope .......</p>
<p>oh well..... it's quite annoying for me to keep hoping, but the chance is toooooooooo small!!!! gosh....</p>
<p>Not necessarily. Forget about the yield numbers and concentrate on the acceptance rate. If they accept you, the decision is in your hands.</p>
<p>Edit: I now see that you were waitlisted by Oberlin and are looking at those numbers rather than the overall admissions stats. The answer is still not to give up all hope because those were last year's waitlist numbers and they can change quite a bit from year to year. However, if I were in your position, I would be looking pretty seriously at any other outright acceptances you may have.</p>
<p>thanks bassdad</p>
<p>it's just that i think i would be sooooooo much happier in oberlin, it's pretty much my style there. i like music, but aint thinking of it as a major. i could actually get a chance to do some seriouse music in oberlin</p>
<p>but my parents have decided for me to go to a catholic university ( EVIL!!)
i actually think i could DIE there!!!! </p>
<p>to be honest, oberlin is a very competitive college, i am really lucky already to be put on the wait list, which shows that i am good enough to go but its just that ppl r better, better then what they expect they could be. i didnt do my SATs, i havnet even finished my A-Level yet, so i dont even have an official test result. feeling lucky already lol </p>
<p>but...u know....things dont always turn out the way u want them to be! i guess</p>
<p>airjordan,</p>
<p>Sorry to hear things are not working out as you had hoped, but college is largely what you make of it. It will be harder at a school that is not really a good fit for you, but hopefully you will be able to find a few kindred spirits wherever you wind up. Good luck.</p>
<p>bass dad, thanks for the good luck lol</p>
<p>coming from england and being educated in this whole British education system is stupid already, going to a catholic university juz means dying of bordem....</p>
<p>btw, is ur kid going to oberlin?</p>
<p>My daughter is in her second year at Oberlin Conservatory. So far, she has had a very good experience there.</p>
<p>I don't know which university you had in mind, but I have a feeling that you will be able to find ways to prevent death by boredom both in class and out of it. It may just take a bit more ingenuity on your part than it might have at Oberlin.</p>
<p>I was accepted from the waitlist in 2005--you too could be one of the lucky few! </p>
<p>I wrote a very honest letter to the office of admissions about how I was a little sloppy in high school and didn't earn the GPA I had the potential to earn, but was ready to rise to the occasion in college. That combined with some good timing--I won a prestigious art award a few weeks later and sent that in to Oberlin--added up to an acceptance. Good luck!</p>
<p>well, i think i basically are qualified to be accepted, its juz too many ppl r qualified..u kno wot i mean, yeh?</p>
<p>coz im gonna read economics, i read some of the publications of one of the professors in the economics department, and i emailed him and asked some questions and critisized some of his points and he replied. wonder if that helps, really dont know.....</p>
<p>I hope you didn't use that grammar when writing your Oberlin essay... I could barely understand what you were saying.</p>
<p>I don't know if criticizing a faculty members publication will do you any good. In fact, I would say it would probably hurt more than help.</p>
<p>And move on! Stop thinking about Oberlin.</p>