<p>why is this board so quiet! Do you think we should know this upcoming week? I just want to know so I can stop hoping and move onto the school that I will be actually going to.</p>
<p>where are you going if you don’t get off Princeton’s waitlist?</p>
<p>I will be going to Cornell</p>
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<p>Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and possibly Yale as well, all had very high yields this year. Wouldn’t it seem reasonable that Princeton might have a lower yield since so many of its its yield competitors have high numbers? I know the yield process is probably more complex than just high yield at one school equals low yield at another, but it does seem kind of weird to me that so many of the best regarded schools have almost record matching or breaking yields in the same year. Anyone have insight or ideas on why this might have happened? Princeton has been pretty mum so far on its yield/waitlist movement.</p>
<p>If HYSM have high yields as you say, then it is probably because admissions were able to predict who was really going to come-- ie, admit people who really had a good fit with, say, MIT (two way fit). It’s kind of hard to explain.</p>
<p>I’ll be going to Northwestern</p>
<p>I called the princeton admissions office today and an admissions officer said that at this point Princeton is probably not moving on to the waitlist, but there may be some movement in June… I’m guessing that this means Princeton has high yields too this year?</p>
<p>This is disappointing that Princeton does not communicate this to all the students on the waitlist - any bit of information helps with the waiting. I’m still at a loss as to why today (May 16th) Princeton does not know for certain whether it has filled its class. May 1st was the deadline for committing, correct? By the way, does anyone know whether Harvard and Yale have made calls to students on their waitlists?</p>
<p>Yes, both have. Check out this thread: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1129279-2011-going-off-their-waitlist.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1129279-2011-going-off-their-waitlist.html</a> Hope you will post when your school goes to wait list and if you know of any others not on the list there, please jump in and tell us! It does seem puzzling that Princeton has not sent out a press release about a high yield. Last year they took 100 according to the wait list threads. Good luck to all of you.</p>
<p>When you called the admissions office, was it a secretary or did you get transferred to an admissions officer? When I called, they said they plan to move by may or June but they clearly didn’t know. They didn’t realize how early Princeton moved to the waitlist last year or any real data</p>
<p>bethany: our high school admissions counselor was unable to reach an admissions counselor, but the word she received from the admissions office was that they would be making calls soon, not that it would be in June. I fear we may not be getting accurate information on the thread. Can anyone confirm?</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure it was an admissions officer. I called the office and I was transferred to someone called Natalie in the admissions office. I hope that I was mistaken and it will not be in June, the wait is killing me! Has anyone else called the office to ask?</p>
<p>yeah, they aren’t sure yet whether they’ll bve taking people. And if it does happen, it’ll be at the end of May or in June.</p>
<p>Here’s a hypothesis: Sounds to be like their class is pretty full but they anticipate losing a few of their acceptances to the WL offerings from Harvard and Yale–and then they might backfill from their WL. If that’s true, then the odds sound beyond remote to me…nothing like last year when supposedly 10% of their incoming class was admitted off WL.</p>
<p>I don’t understand why they need to put so many students on a waitlist.</p>
<p>Dormant-- I would not be surprised that at some point admissions off the wait
list begins to be driven by soft impressions as to possible major/concentration
of the student-- Arts/Letters vs Sciences etc. The Institution may wish to balance
the academic area potential of the freshman class once it has a feeling for who is
matriculating from RD statistics. The balancing act may go beyond possible academic
majors and get into aspects of class diversity as well. This may be why a seemingly
huge wait list exists where we all know that only a small handful of waitlistees will
be provided a seat in the freshman class. </p>
<p>.02 David</p>
<p>Thanks, David. That makes sense. Interesting that the only Ivy Leagues who haven’t started calling off their undergrad waitlists are Penn and Princeton.</p>
<p>I’m thinking that all waitlistees will hear once H and Y close off their respective waitlists. P will lose admitted students to H and Y during the summer.</p>
<p>My D just turn down Princeton last night. She will be attending Yale instead. She was taken off Yale waitlist last week. This will open one more spot.</p>
<p>Congratulations to your daughter! Please post if anyone hears from Princeton.</p>