I didn’t see a thread on this.
One of TOP 2 Choices - wait listed for CS.
Anyone in the same boat? Do we know (historically) how many they place in wait list, and how many offered admission from that list?
Checkout the common data sets (CDS) for cornell the past few years and the waiting list statistics.
this is old but i.e. for the class of 2017, 168 were admitted off a wait list of 3144.
Here are the admit off WL figures for past four years.
2016–61
2015–81
2014–96
2013–168
Does any have or know how to get the waitlist historic trends by school? That will make a big difference…
Historic trends is not going to help you. There are too many variables. Cornell’s yield is dependent on other schools (perceived higher ranking) admittance/yield, and Cornell’s yield will determine how many students will get off the WL, not how many people are put on the WL. There were years when more students matriculated than there were beds, and there years when there were over 100 open spots.
My older daughter was admitted of WL at Cornell and Duke. It took some proactive/additional work, but she was also lucky there were openings.
Thank you appreciate the feedback. Do you mind sharing some of the proactive things you did?
@oldfort, are you able to share any tips please?
You can do search on this site on what I have posted…
- Do another packet of updated GPA (from mid term) and any other awards. Write an essay to demonstrate interest, and one or 2 additional LORs. Send that in by 2nd week of April.
- If you are in the position to do this, have the parents or GC to let the school know you will attend if you should be admitted off the WL. Your GC would most likely not want to do that unless he/she is certain, but can advocate for you. Remember adcoms want to admit students off the WL who would be willing to commit. At this point they are looking to fill up the class so they could go on summer vacation.
- The first week of May you’ll need to start calling the admission office to find out when/if they are going to their WL. I found out Cornell was going to its WL on CC. I asked D1’s GC to call as soon as I found out. She called and told me they were not ready yet. That same afternoon Cornell called the GC back to let her know they were interested in offering a spot to D1, but she would need to commit right away.
When schools go to their WL they want to do it very quickly. They would often call the student or their GC directly to see if he/she ready to commit.
I also wrote Cornell to let them know that we didn’t need FA and Cornell was her first choice. We didn’t do that with Duke, but she was still accepted off their WL. Duke happened to have a lot of openings that year due to few bad press.
Thank you - much appreciated! Congrats also to your daughter - did she like Cornell?
@oldfort Where would you send in all that info? To the admissions office?
I checked last years waitlist thread and looks like no one was accepted to the engineering school off the waitlist. There are over 5700 people on waitlist, and I am not sure how many per school:
https://www.college-kickstart.com/blog/item/cornell-admits-5889-applicants-to-the-class-of-2021
@Teach-me --have you seen the WL broken down by the seven colleges? 61 students were admitted off WL last year but I hadn’t seen a distribution.
@CT1417 I have not, but was told very few from engineering school are placed on WL b/c they generally have a very high yield, and as I mentioned, zero into engineering school last year.
Also, as u reported, it seems that Cornell is getting higher and higher yields as evidenced by the lower and lower number of admits off the WL.
I wish schools were more transparent about the WL. I don’t get this cat and mouse game.
Engineering yield for males last year was 52.6%, females 45.7% and university overall–51.4%, so Eng yield of 49.1% overall is right in line with university yield. I have just never seen WL stats by school, but this info may be communicated in sessions perhaps?
I don’t think it is a cat & mouse game as the school cannot predict its yield exactly. The smaller schools within Cornell really need to keep enrollment below set levels. Probably more leeway in the larger schools.
Now, does Cornell need a WL of 3000+? Absolutely not. But that is another discussion…
Cornell told us that there are 1500 on engineering WL, and they expect 400 to stay on.