<p>OK, about the MIT list size, its definitely 739 according to MIT website.</p>
<p>What's more important, here are some facts (from the last year probably, according to numbers) that would be useful... multiply those numbers by at least 1.5 for this year (to avoid making a more optimistic estimate, since most of them seem to waitlist more than the class size :p ).</p>
<pre><code>* Cornell University
o Number waitlisted: 3,213
o Number who accepted a place on waitlist: 1,976
o Number admitted from waitlist: 279
o Percentage admitted from waitlist: 14%
Grinnell College
o Number waitlisted: 740
o Number who accepted a place on waitlist: 279
o Number admitted from waitlist: 16
o Percentage admitted from waitlist: 6%
Haverford College
o Number waitlisted: 732
o Number who accepted a place on waitlist: 305
o Number admitted from waitlist: 10
o Percentage admitted from waitlist: 3%
Middlebury College
o Number waitlisted: 1,231
o Number who accepted a place on waitlist: 603
o Number admitted from waitlist: 0
o Percentage admitted from waitlist: 0%
Penn State University, University Park
o Number waitlisted: 1,828
o Number who accepted a place on waitlist: 1,704
o Number admitted from waitlist: 1,356
o Percentage admitted from waitlist: 80%
Skidmore College
o Number waitlisted: 1,584
o Number who accepted a place on waitlist: 522
o Number admitted from waitlist: 59
o Percentage admitted from waitlist: 11%
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
o Number waitlisted: 8,385
o Number who accepted a place on waitlist: 2,776
o Number admitted from waitlist: 525
o Percentage admitted from waitlist: 19%
Yale University
o Number waitlisted: 728
o Number who accepted a place on waitlist: 204
o Number admitted from waitlist: 56
o Percentage admitted from waitlist: 27%
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<p>Just throwing this out there that the for yale above is wrong. According to my eli account (I was waitlisted there) there were 769 students offered a position on the waitlist this year.</p>