<p>Anyone hear anything yet?</p>
<p>Didn’t they say not until June? It would be nice if they let people know before May 1st but I doubt that will happen.</p>
<p>My son got waitlisted and will probably go to UDel.</p>
<p>I submitted all the documents on Feb 11,2009 and haven’t received a decision letter yet. I really don’t understand what is going on at Binghamton because one of my friends who applied two weeks late than me has received a rejection letter last Tuesday.
Hmmm…In addition I am an international transfer student.</p>
<p>i know it must be frustrating, but in general, wait list decisions can’t be made until they see how many accept regular offers of admissions and those decisions aren’t due until May 1. if you are waiting for a waitlist decision, you probably have to put in an enrollment deposit elsewhere – then if you get in from the waitlist you decide whether to take the spot, but in the meantime you should be set with another school in case you don’t get in.</p>
<p>You can take my spot, I am going to the U of Rochester. Bing didn’t give me anything to fill out to decline. If they had I would have sent it in. Better send in a deposit somewhere else to be safe.</p>
<p>I’m sure the wait list acceptances are not going to be a 1-1 for rejections. They estimated how many people would accept and if less people do, they will take off the wait list. My son claims that many of the kids at his school who were accepted are not going to Bing.</p>
<p>My D was wait listed at Binghamton. I called the admissions office and was told that no wait list acceptances will be sent until around June 12. The university was extremely selective this year and no one at the admissions office has any real idea just how many accepted students will decide to attend.</p>
<p>I was told by my boss today in Admissions that about 70% of the applicants who were accepted have chosen to come to Binghamton for the fall. There is still another week left before decisions have to be made so hopefully an answer will be available soon.</p>
<p>do you really mean 70% of the total number of students accepted have already decided to attend?
that would be a pretty insane yield rivaling those of the ivies – even in this economy i have trouble believing yield would have jumped that much. if it is true, i just hope admissions planned properly or the school will face some serious overcrowding again.</p>
<p>Bingambassador: that sounds very high, but not out of the question…does that overload freshman dorms into triples/quads again? just curious…</p>
<p>That is a possibility. Also, you have to remember that some people will decide probably last minute to go somewhere else (for instance if they got wait listed at their number 1 and they get accepted). Triples (i don’t believe we have quads) will depend on how many returning students are staying in the dorms and apartment communities.</p>
<p>i really just need to clarify – are you really saying yield is 70%? this is a really important fact and i would urge you to make sure you really mean what you are reporting here.</p>
<p>HAHAHAH there is no way the yield is 70%</p>
<p>BingAmbassador doesn’t know anything about logistics. She is only helpful with questions about student life and pointing stuff out that people missed on the Binghamton web site.</p>
<p>A 70% yield thus far, indicates that 4900 have enrolled in a projected class of 2500. This doesn’t even include people that are still deciding. Binghamton would not have room for those students and would be in a crisis right now. This is assuming that about 7000 were accepted based on last year’s statistics.</p>
<p>It very unlikely.</p>
<p>bigeyedfish3, it is very possible that Binghamton’s admissions department modified their formulas this year in anticipation of a change in enrollment. Granted, I doubt they would expect such a drastic change – but it’s very possible, especially with the given state of the economy!</p>
<p>I agree, its possible but its so drastic. There is no doubt that almost every SUNY school modified their admission formula due to the economy. This is why many are utilizing their wait list because no one knows what the yield is going to be.</p>
<p>However, we can look at this with some logic if Binghamton adjusted their formula.</p>
<p>Binghamton’s freshman class, I believe is suited for 2,000. For all intensive purposes, we will put it at 2500 to account for over enrollment which will definitely, most likely occur this year.</p>
<p>So if 70% have accepted so far, that means Binghamton would have admit between 3,000 and 4,000 students.</p>
<p>That is a 10% acceptance rate. This is on par with ivies. Unbelievable. I know the economy sucks, but this is hard to believe.</p>
<p>even though i’m sure admissions adjusted their acceptances in anticipation of increased yield, i cannot imagine they could possibly have anticipated a 70% yield – and quite honestly i have problems believing that a 70% yield has in fact been seen – which is why i am eager for BingAmbassador to clarify/confirm.</p>
<p>Sean256: You actually may very well be right on the money there. As near as I can tell, Binghamton really did have about a 10% admittance rate this year. Every time I see statistics listed for this year’s application pool size, it would seem to indicate an admittance rate right around there.</p>
<p>For example, see the statistics cited in paragraph seven of this Times Union article: [Shutouts</a> on state campus – Page 1 – Times Union - Albany NY](<a href=“http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=792600]Shutouts”>http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=792600)</p>
<p>Now, I’m sure that they rounded up for that “3,000 spots,” but either way, you end up with an acceptance rate very close to 10%.</p>
<p>I will double check that and I apologize in advance if I was mistaken. I am just telling you what I was told but I could have heard wrong.</p>
<p>I am only a student and not a math one in fact so I am entitled to be wrong some of the time. I will let you know the percentage of acceptances so far when I speak to my boss tomorrow.</p>
<p>Hey BingAmbassador!! Until today I did not receive any decision letter from Binghamton (I applied to SOM as an accounting major). Don’t you think that if I did not receive any thing from the school, isn’t there a possibility of getting rejected or waitlisted? I am not sure but Nick Forcier told me that transfer applicants who applied to Accountancy have to wait longer than other majors, which I think is not true. All my friends who applied to finance, management got their decisions two weeks from now. Another friend who applied to economics major received the letter in mid-march. It is tru;y frustrating T…T</p>