<p>Alright, got a dumb question, but does anyone know where the postcard the dean was referring to is?</p>
<p>Thanks in advance, and hope some of us end up accepted after May!</p>
<p>My question is how can they not tell us if we actually have a spot or not until “mid-March to July 1st” if we’re supposed to be committing to a school in May???</p>
<p>I was wondering the same things!</p>
<p>The letter online is the same letter they will mail you. The postcard will be included in the letter. (I think.)</p>
<p>@elasticity: thanks for clearing it up. thought I had to print it off somewhere or something</p>
<p>so one of the things that you can do is to put a deposit down for a school that accepted you and that you want to go to and then if Claremont McKenna has a spot you can just withdraw your spot. You’ll lose the deposit, but at least if you don’t hear back from Claremont in Jul you’ll still have somewhere to go. Or you can just wait it out, don’t put a deposit for any school and hope for the best. Better be safe and put down a deposit somewhere though.</p>
<p>how much is an average deposit though? i know that mckenna has to wait on students to commit there before they can start accepting off the waitlist, but at the same time it feels like a bit much to end up wasting a deposit fee</p>
<p>You have to put down a deposit somewhere else. Do NOT “wait it out” and see. Very very very bad idea.</p>
<p>nick, deposits are usually several hundred dollars (~$500) depending on the school</p>
<p>This question might be stupid, but being on a waitlist is non-binding, correct? And you can sign up for the waitlists of multiple schools?</p>
<p>^^^^^Absolutely! You can be on multiple WL’s, just be sure to treat these as if they are off of your list. Change your focus and love a school you are accepted to. If you get an offer from a WL sort it out then, as others have said, it can be a big mistake to wait for a spot.</p>
<p>Check to see how many cmc typically takes off the waitlist. Iirc, in the past it has been very, very few.</p>
<p>I can’t emphasize strongly enough that no one should fail to send a deposit to a school they have been admitted to and will be glad to attend even if they decide to remain waitlisted at CMC. Only that way can you be assured of a place at a suitable college for you in the event that you are not eventually offered a spot at CMC.</p>
<p>@lolcats - oh, ok thats not so bad. thanks!</p>
<p>Have people gotten their letters yet?
I haven’t gotten mine.</p>
<p>Where do you live?</p>
<p>Texas 10char</p>
<p>Just so people know, there were 4,264 applicants for a class size of 300. I don’t know how many people they put on the waitlist, but I do know that generally colleges will admit a greater number of students than they have space for. For example, if CMC believed that it would have a 75% yield (percentage of students it offers admission accept) then it would accept 450 students. If it estimates its yield will be higher than it actually is, that’s when students get taken off the wait list. This means that if you don’t put down a deposit at a different school, you’re betting against the trained experts at CMC who are estimating the school’s yield.</p>
<p>^ Right, but we can also assume that CMC is going to its waitlist this year given its much smaller acceptance rate and its over-enrollment last year. Obviously it’d be crazy to not deposit at another school because the chance of getting off the waitlist is so small, but I think given the much smaller acceptance rate and the unlikelihood that CMC would have a 70% yield can lead us to believe that they’ll at least go to the WL.</p>
<p>I’d be surprised if their yield is half of 75%.</p>