@youdon’tsay Carleton’s visiting days were pretty awesome! My son went into it leaning towards Haverford, but I think he may now be leaning Carleton. Only major disappointment for him was that they stuck him in a “Senior House” (a small house with only a few students, all seniors), so he didn’t really get to experience the underclassman dorm experience. But otherwise, he really liked the students and faculty he met.
I’m glad he enjoyed it. I heard this was the largest ASD ever.
Need to know odds of making it off the waitlist. Carleton was my first choice but I got waitlisted
The last three years, according to the CDS, the numbers who got off the WL were 34, 41 and two. For so many schools, it’s never a good bet that you can get off the WL. The odds are not in your favor.
Everyone always should deposit and fall in love with another school. Maybe you’ll be lucky, but no one should count on it. What are your other options?
Carleton is over-enrolled this year and will not be accepting anybody off of the waitlist, as per an official email I received a few hours ago.
Any idea how “over-enrolled”? Turning doubles into triples over-enrolled?
By about 20, and this number is before any reduction due to “summer melt.” It’s nothing like the 52 over-enrollment that resulted in 2016 – and that 52 was as of fall, AFTER any “summer melt” had already taken place.
@MinnesotaDadof3 Does “summer melt” start later in Minnesota??
@RockySoil : Following here is the official scoop about the slight over-enrollment for the Class of '23 at Carleton College, from the student newspaper The Carletonian:
Of the 1,401 prospective students granted admission, 545 are currently enrolled for the fall (goal was for 520 students), resulting in a “yield” of 38.9 percent. Good to see from another thread that your son is among them. Room capacity should not prove to be a problem.
BTW, it is currently an unseasonably 39-degrees F. here in north central Minnesota – not very May-like but our spring “melt” already happened (if you can believe it)! Looks as if Carleton’s “summer melt” might happen – if we are granted any summer this year.