<p>I have looked all over and cant find them. Does anyone know the amount of students who were admitted/wait listed/rejected?</p>
<p>This should help. If you don’t already have an account, make one because there’s a lot of useful information.</p>
<p>[University</a> of Chicago](<a href=“http://www.princetonreview.com/schools/college/CollegeAdmissions.aspx?iid=1023043]University”>http://www.princetonreview.com/schools/college/CollegeAdmissions.aspx?iid=1023043)</p>
<p>For RD, acceptance rate was 10.8%. From available stats (and assuming skew from CC), I’m guessing that about 20% more were waitlisted, and the rest were rejected.</p>
<p>20% waitlist? that’s a ton!</p>
<p>Sounds like a ton to me, too. But it’s not that uncommon for selective colleges to have a waitlist that’s the same size as their accepted list (especially those schools with an accepted list that’s a lot smaller than Chicago’s). There could easily be 2,500-3,000 people on the Chicago waitlist, though. What does it really matter? No one who’s on the waitlist ought to be counting on being admitted, even though a few probably will be.</p>
<p>From memory, in rough numbers:</p>
<p>Total applications about 19,900 (5,900 EA, 14,000 RD). Total admitted about 3,500 (1,650 EA, 1,900 RD). Waitlist: your guess is as good as mine, but probably in the thousands, but not too many thousands. Rejected: Everyone else.</p>
<p>Sorry, but no way in hades would Chicago, or any top school for that matter, place more kids on its waitlist than they accept! That is not just unfair but also impractical. Chicago would expect, historically speaking, about a 35% yield. Therefore, they place very few, maybe 500 or so kids, on a waiting list in case the yield dips below this amount to say 33% or 34%. As kids begin to send in enrollment deposits, they re-evaluate the waitlist pool and shrink it down to a list of about 50 to 70 kids, and then choose from there. </p>
<p>Thousands? No. That is highly, highly unnecessary.</p>
<p>Stanford, for example, said on its website that it has rejected 93% of its applicants and only 2-3% are on its waitlist. Let’s assume Stanford gets 20,000 applications, which I’m guessing is not a bad approximation. Two percent of 20,000 would be 400 applicants. Definitely not thousands. Overall, most colleges want to create a nice balance between increased yield (and they do this by accepting those who really, really want to attend and show this, and also by having a wait list of people who show that they would most likely attend if given the chance) and selectivity (and they do this by REJECTING more applicants than they accept/waitlist combined).</p>
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<p>EXACTLY!! Why is everyone saying there are more waitlisters than accepted? THINK about why they have the waitlist in the first place!!! They have it in case not enough accepted students will accept their offer. There may be more waitlisters than last year, but CC is a very small pool of the thousands that applied.</p>
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<p>exactly. and unfortunately, no one understood the joke thread i made: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-chicago/887457-more-acceptances-than-rejections.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-chicago/887457-more-acceptances-than-rejections.html</a></p>
<p>There’s no chance that the waitlist is as short as 500 people.</p>
<p>First, most students detach themselves emotionally pretty quickly from the colleges that waitlist them, and transfer their commitment to a college that has accepted them. That’s understandable, and healthy. By and large, people don’t stay on waitlists. Even for HYPS, not everyone sticks around. And that will be especially true for a place like Chicago, which only gets about 40% of its acceptees to enroll anyway, and is clearly waitlisting a lot of kids who will be accepted at highly desirable colleges.</p>
<p>Plus, it’s not just a question of having warm bodies available to fill available dorm beds. If a college goes to its waitlist, it may well be looking for a specific type or type of students that maybe hasn’t shown up from the original accepted pool in the numbers predicted. They may want more football players, or classical musicians, or South Asian men with humanities orientation. In order to have a decent pool of viable candidates in lots of different categories in May or June, they have to cast a pretty wide net in March.</p>
<p>Even Harvard and Yale have more than 1,000 people on their waitlists, and they get a lot more “yes” answers when they call later in the spring. My guess – and ultimately it’s only a guess, based on logic – is that Chicago strikes the balance somewhere between 1,500 and 3,500.</p>
<p>I was on the waiting list last year I think one thousand were put on that can be found somewhere half or five hundred stayed then one hundred to two hundred were admitted</p>
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<p>Oh! Sorry, I actually called you a ■■■■■ on that thread, but apparently you share my sentiments about waitlists:)</p>
<p>haha np collegestress. </p>
<p>ABBA: why do you think there were about 1,000 students put on the waiting list? do you have any evidence? (not trying to sound rudely inquisitive, just curious)</p>
<p>Well, b/c not everyone who’s offered a spot on the waiting list will take that spot…duh.</p>
<p>yes, obviously. duh. im wondering where the # 1000 came from. duh. i fail to see your logic.</p>
<p>Stanford’s yield is very different than Chicago’s; also, it gets more like 30,000 applications. But as far as I know they only accept very few, if any at all, from the waitlist, and those people would probably want to enroll. But there are schools who waitlist over half as many as they outright accept.</p>
<p>[Waitlist</a> larger than projected size for Class of 2013 - The Daily Princetonian](<a href=“http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/04/03/23262/]Waitlist”>http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/04/03/23262/)</p>
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<p>True? Where did you get this stat?</p>
<p>The number of people offered and accepting waitlist spots is included on each college’s Common Data Set. (The second number is a little misleading, because it represents a decision to send in a postcard in early April, not an ongoing willingness in June to change your college plans.) Chicago does not make its CDS public; some peer schools do and some don’t.</p>
<p>I looked at a few. Interestingly, Stanford, Dartmouth, Cornell, and Northwestern all offered waitlist spots to about half the number of people admitted. For Vanderbilt it was 75% as big as the admitted pool.</p>
<p>As for last year, I don’t think as many as 200 students were taken off the Chicago waitlist. Maybe 100. The year before, it was 20-30, and the year before that 0.</p>
<p>I found it somewhere last year when I was on it and I think the number was 1033 it should be able to be found maybe it was in a maroon article believe me when I was on the waiting list I looked for everything</p>
<p>my admit officer was the one who said 100 to 200 were taken off not an article</p>