<p>Hey guys ! How many of us are there ? Are we thinking it will be harder or easier for us to get off the WL then everyone else ? Well done anyway ! x</p>
<p>I got waitlisted and I am an international applicant 
do i even have a chance of ending up there??</p>
<p>Me three :(</p>
<p>Me too. My counselor told me that 700 ppl aproximately get waitlisted,200 dont remain, and of the others 200 will be admited!!So 40% instead of the 7%!!!
I dont know tho if it is easier/harder wit internationals!
The thing is that i am unable to find out in the net exactly how this proccess works,how many are waitlisted,how many exactly get in.Even my couns was speculating…Anyone that can help?</p>
<p>i hope it’ll help that Im international!!! do they waitlist a lot of international students??? And how sure are you of the numbers u gave, 700 and 200?? last year harvard admitted more than two hundred from the waitlist i hope its even more this year!!!</p>
<p>They have admitted about 90 or so, more than the previous year. I think this years waitlist acceptees will be around 50-150. However, with financial crisis and all it’s very hard to predict the outcome.</p>
<p>And I am holding my thumbs for a record low yield :P</p>
<p>I’m an international waitlistee for Harvard as well.
Do they do ours separately for Waitlisting process?</p>
<p>That would suck :[
… or is that a good thing?</p>
<p>Maybe we are more rare? It seems as though we are, hurray! :D</p>
<p>Can I has acceptance letter now? :]</p>
<p>Hahahah,</p>
<p>Wait, I have another question
I heard they have over 2000 waitlistees for Harvard this year
and now I’m seeing 700
are those 700 just for internationals?</p>
<p>Also, are you guys taking any actions to ‘help’ your chance as a waitlistees?
I want to do something, but I don’t want to annoy them</p>
<p>i said the 700 number bc my counselor told me so…where did u hear the2000 number?i dont think its correct bc they mentioned a small number in the letter and 2000 is not a small percentaage it is 7%.</p>
<p>ppl where are u from?i am from europe and in my country 2 were accepted and 3 wl out of 32 applying! What is the case in your country?by the way i am trying to persuade the other two ppl on the wl to decline the offer,haha</p>
<p>1991 got a point 
:D</p>
<p>Btw how do you know your country’s stats? :O</p>
<p>my interviewer told me this.where are u from anyway?</p>
<p>I’m an international waitlistee as well. I’m from Indonesia, by the way. I really want to know how many students are in the waitlist group this year. Well, i guess we’ll have to wait until Harvard says anything about it…</p>
<p>how many ppl are accepted/wl from indonesia? I understand that perhaps u dont know but perhaps u do bc in most countries there are only a few schools sending kids to top schools like harvard!
regarding the wl,i dont know exactlu how many are in,but almost all w8listees ask this question so i believe that we will hear an answer soon from sb that will learn through perhaps an adm officer or whatever. What seems sure tho,is that this year they will be takin many ppl out of the wl(an article in the Boston Globe mentioned more that 200).</p>
<p>1991, I don’t know. What I know from my interviewer (Indonesia is not on the list, and apparently I was the only applicant that he interviewed this year ) is that Harvard usually admit a student from my country every 2 or 3 years. I don’t know how many students applied from Indonesia either, but I know that about 20 students each applied to Yale and Princeton. Given the greater name recognition that Harvard has , i would assume that at the very least the same number of students applied to Harvard this year.</p>
<p>I just called admissions, and they said they wouldn’t divulge the information (the number of waitlistees this year). They also said something to the effect of, if 394 students reject their offer, ONE will get in off the waitlist. How does that even work?</p>
<p>woah, 394 reject and 1 off waitlist?
that’s definately not a good news for us lol</p>
<p>also,
are we in a different pool even within the waitlist pool?
my country is korea, and i heard 3 people from korea got in.
does that mean that if all 3 that were accepted attend, i dont even have a chance of getting off the waitlist?</p>
<p>I’m still confused about how the waitlist works for the international waitlists…</p>
<p>Some claim that they will try to ensure a diverse student body, hence taking lets say no more Koreans if 3 are already enrolled. However, some claim that once they have chosen their acceptees the diverse student body is already done and they just pick good candidates of the list.</p>
<p>well tha 394 is absolutely correct!but let me explain how it wokrs bc over the past few days i have been researching on this. if out of the 2046 acceptees 394 decline harvards offer then one kid will get in bc 2046-394=1652 and the class will be 1655 this year so actually 3 will get in. However from 394 and on as a kid declines an offer we will get a place!So it does not take 394*2 for 2 kids to get in,but 394 + 1! This year most pplanticipate that 1/4 of those accepted more or less will decline their offer so 2046-(1/4)2046=1535. So that makes 1655(the size of the class of 2013)-1535=120 places to be filled from the wl! So that means that they will offer about 150 kids from the wl a place in Harvard at about mid may in order for 120 of them to take a place!
All in all by doing this math with slightly changed the prcentage of the 2046 acceptees that got accepted(the percentage may vary from 70% bc kids may reject harvard bc of uncertainty bc of the economic crisis to 80%) 50-200 will get of the wl!!Last year 240 kids got in from the w8list!
The thing is that we wont know how many exactly will get off until they release the number in early May! Concerning as international it is quite sure that lets say Harvard ha s accepted 2-5 ppl from a country. Then it has probably w8listed another 2-5. What everyone seems unable to find a definete answer is what will happen if everyone accepts the offer?Will they still take sb from the w8list?
I hope we will find out during the process…</p>