<p>graceismyname: It seems someone from the Hamilton board got off though.</p>
<p>Ahh I should’ve read the full thread- I thought livwald added Hamilton 
My apologies.</p>
<p>It seems like the Ivies are starting later this year? From last years thread it seems like they started early May, around May 2nd.</p>
<p>ysbera: I noticed that too, it seems odd. They may be waiting on snail-mail recipients this year if it seems a close call. Or maybe they’re just not taking anyone off their waitlists ;)</p>
<p>i think it was because of the weekend… id put my money on tomorrow…possibly thurs.</p>
<p>@spunaugle don’t say that haha…</p>
<p>Haha, no worries… the chances of all 8 schools having exactly the expected yeild is like…zero. Haha I just hope Yale’s is kinda low, I’m waiting on that waitlist to move a little :P</p>
<p>Last year was unusual at ivies because of Harvard and Princeton’s retreat from EA/ED. The schools new before May there would be wait list movement. This year with higher yields expected at the great aid schools they are counting carefully!</p>
<p>I would be surprised to see much action at any other than Cornell, Penn and Brown–the weaker aid ivies.</p>
<p>On the other hand not surprised that NYU, BU and peer schools started early. I would expect to see lots of movement there and wonder how deep they’ll have to dig to come up with full classes that can afford them.</p>
<p>[Space</a> Availability Survey Results 2009](<a href=“http://www.nacacnet.org/PublicationsResources/Research/SpaceAvailabiltySurvey/Pages/SpaceSurveyResults.aspx]Space”>http://www.nacacnet.org/PublicationsResources/Research/SpaceAvailabiltySurvey/Pages/SpaceSurveyResults.aspx)</p>
<p>The results of this survey seem not so true. Duke is not on the list.</p>
<p>Word has it that Cornell has very strong response this year. Wonder if it would go to WL.</p>
<p>just to confirm. my S received an offer from Hamilton yesterday, but the Ad Office implied very very few were coming off this year…</p>
<p>OK so Hamilton is definitely active.</p>
<p>Boston College
Boston University
Brandeis University
Bucknell University
Davidson
Duke
Emory
Fordham University
Georgetown
Hamilton
Lafayette College
NYU
Northwestern University
SUNY Geneseo
Union College
University of Chicago
University of Miami
University of Rochester
Wash U
UT Austin</p>
<p>Brown’s letter about the wait list states that decisions concerning waitlisted students will occur no sooner than May 15 and that offers of admission to waitlisted candidates will be made via regular mail (no phone calls or e-mail).</p>
<p>As reported in the student newspaper, Princeton is going to their waitlist: [Rapelye:</a> Yield will be above 50 percent - The Daily Princetonian](<a href=“http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/05/06/23653/]Rapelye:”>http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/05/06/23653/) but it has over 800 students to select from!</p>
<p>Any news from Stanford waitlist?</p>
<p>Is the waitlist for native americans seperated from the waitlist for international students?
cause i called the director of international admission…
but still no hope…
i don’t know if it’s only hamilton…</p>
<p>Anyone heard from whitman college, william and mary, or colgate?</p>
<p>The NACAC Space Availability survey is not meant to indicate which schools are going to their waitlists, but which schools are accepting NEW applications. In addition, it is a self-reported list by member colleges. If a college isn’t a member, or chooses not to complete the survey, then they won’t be listed.</p>
<p>I spoke to a Connecticut College admissions rep a couple hours ago and they are looking for some new Camels off the waitlist:</p>
<p>Boston College
Boston University
Brandeis University
Bucknell University
Connecticut College
Davidson
Duke
Emory
Fordham University
Georgetown
Hamilton
Lafayette College
NYU
Northwestern University
SUNY Geneseo
Union College
University of Chicago
University of Miami
University of Rochester
Wash U
UT Austin</p>
<p>For those waiting to get off of wait lists, I wish you all the best. Hopefully this bit of satire helps a bit. The problem is knowing where satire ends and foolish reality begins. </p>
<p>These are pertinent sections of a communication received by a CC poster alerting him or her to a “Priority Waiting List” option available at Carnegie Mellon. It has been quoted here word-for-word. The full letter is available here:</p>
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<p>The following is satire reflecting on both the many confused posts by applicants on the Carnegie Mellon sub-board here at CC and my take on this whole sad affair. Before the posts come, let me communicate that I do not have any malice toward Carnegie Mellon, I don’t know anybody there nor know anybody that has ever unsuccessfully applied there. I have no axe to grind other than an opinion on the subject matter. One additional note, I truly sympathize for all students that were put through this whether they were accepted or not. </p>
<p>Dear College Trustees:</p>
<p>Okay, I’m writing this letter to you at the insistence of the President of Carnegie Mellonhead to explain and apologize for a series of Office of Admission mistakes. </p>
<p>Our first mistake was the date logic. Obviously we can’t tell applicants that we will notify them on May 6 and give them time to reply to other schools by May 1. My bad. It caused so many applicants to call Admissions that our receptionist transferred to another department and the grad students fielding calls and e-mails started calling me “clown fish” behind my back. Don’t judge me Deepak!</p>
<p>Now the whole “Priority” Waiting List thing is admittedly FUBAR. We wanted a way to get to a smaller number of the best remaining candidates and at the same time find out whether these ‘best of the remaining candidates’ really want to be at Carnegie Mellonhead.</p>
<p>The first thing we did was not allow any applicant on the “Regular” waitlist who applied to multiple Mellonhead programs to get on the “Priority” waitlist. We WILL accept a wishy-washy kid who is really smart and applied to multiple programs to be admitted early or regular decision at Carnegie Mellonhead. We don’t want wishy-washy kids from our wait list. Our logic is simple. Everyone in the ‘real world’ knows it is far better to have a really smart person that is wishy-washy in a meeting with them. </p>
<p>Next we decided to get applicants to ‘put their money where their mouths are’ by requiring a 600 dollar enrollment deposit. Why didn’t we just do that for the initial wait list thus making it smaller from the get-go? Admittedly, it’s now a blur but it seemed to make sense at the time. Then we really blew it. As those eligible for the “Priority” waiting list are WAY smarter than we are – they realized that they could get on the “Priority” waiting list and STILL not commit an additional dime to the school, simply by waiting to send out the check on May 6 (ya know, WHEN we promised we would tell candidates whether they got in or not. Again, my bad. So, the whole intent thing just got botched up royally and became worse than pointless as most everyone simply moved to the “Priority” list. </p>
<p>An additional muck-up is that we didn’t use this new communications to re-confirm all applicant e-mail addresses. We’ve been having trouble e-mailing candidates like <a href="mailto:thedreadpiratemackdaddy007@420.com">thedreadpiratemackdaddy007@420.com</a>. So now we’re contacting applicants old school. Unfortunately we didn’t start making the bulk of our calls to May 5. What we didn’t factor in is that many people don’t pick up their phones for a phone number they don’t recognize or just got some sketchy sibling on the phone. And as we have to work down the list giving priority to those higher on the list - along with making odd hour calls to international students - we will not get to all candidates by May 6. Sorry. </p>
<p>As the “Priority” list is so huge, we have been e-mailing candidates some applicants on the “priority” list that have virtually no chance of being admitted now that their next chance will be on June 1. [Writer’s note: this has been posted by a CC poster who said he received this] The letter contains:</p>
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<p>Again, we blew it. When we said “we are unable to remove your name from the priority waiting list” that was just to be ‘marketing speak’ for ‘you were not accepted from the list.’ After all, straight talk is obviously what we are all about here at Carnegie Mellonhead. Unfortunately, as we ARE removing everyone remaining from the “priority” list and putting them ON the “regular” list this has made us appear even more stupid, if that’s possible. So as I write this, we’re now getting calls from disappointed applicants calling us “complete tools” and telling us where we can shove our “regular” decision list. At present, I’m the only person still remaining in the office. Everyone else seems to have caught the flu. </p>
<p>Obviously I’m toast here so I’ll just be looking for another job. Sure go ahead and blame me. It’s not like I don’t deserve it. But while you’re dishing out the blame just remember that if you aren’t smart enough to hire smart people to admit smart students who’s really to blame here? </p>
<p>Sincerely, </p>
<p>The Outgoing Admissions Director
Carnegie Mellonhead University</p>