<p>Why did some people send in their updates so late?</p>
<p>I sent mine in a week or so after April 1st…</p>
<p>Last year, they sent out the first wave of waitlist acceptances on May 8th, and did not report any statistics on it until May 11th. So I think it’s safe to assume we still have about a week or so before anything happens.</p>
<p>roll calling for johns hopkins waitlist started today . . . any ideas about dartmouth?</p>
<p>Good News! I just spoke to the admissions office, and apparently Dartmouth is both need-blind in selecting students off the waitlist, and fully equipped to provide the same financial aid for waitlisted admittees as they would have received had they been accepted RD.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Hola! Not sure how accurate this is but I JUST called Dartmouth and the admissions representative said that they probably won’t know if they can use the waitlist until the end of the month. So take a breather and enjoy the last few days of school :)</p>
<p>Maybe this information is wrong and people will hear some good news soon.</p>
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Johns Hopkins won’t decide until mid May.</p>
<p>What do you mean roll calling? Are they still seeing if you are interested? Is it via email?</p>
<p>"Now that May 1st has come and gone, we recognize that you may be anxious for information about the status of Dartmouth’s waitlist. At this point, we do not know if we will be able to offer admission to students on the waitlist. We have had a strong response to the offers of admission that we made on April 1, and we are monitoring changes in the size of the entering class to see if we’ll be able to make additional offers. We expect that it could be at least three weeks before we’ll have any significant updates to provide on the status of the waitlist.</p>
<p>There are several items we’ll be watching: One big variable yet to be determined is whether or not waitlist activity at some of our peer institutions will lead some students to cancel their plans to matriculate at Dartmouth. A second variable is students who may postpone their enrollment for a year to take a “gap” year between high school and college. Each year, these two variables impact whether and to what extent we make additional offers of admission and each year the situation at Dartmouth evolves from week to week as we get more information.</p>
<p>If you are an active member of the waitlist, it is not important for you to contact our office at this time unless you would like to update your file in the manner described at <a href=“Apply to Dartmouth | Dartmouth Admissions”>Apply to Dartmouth | Dartmouth Admissions;
<p>If you have decided that you no longer wish to be considered for admission from the waitlist, please update your status online at <a href=“http://www.dartmouth.edu/admissions/actions/status.html”>Home | Dartmouth Admissions; </p>
<p>Thank you for your continued interest in Dartmouth. </p>
<p>Sincerely, </p>
<p>The staff of the Dartmouth Admissions Office"</p>
<p>I just received this too.</p>
<p>So what does this mean? Their yield is at least as high as they predicted when they made their offers of admission, but I wonder if it’s typical for this letter to be sent out each year, with a significant number (at least 10) students accepting offers off the WL from other schools or taking gap years.</p>
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It means that it’s not looking real good for people on the wait list. Pray for HYPS to hit the waitlists heavily. Sending out an email is a courtesy so that those waitlisted can have some clarity with respect to Dartmouth should they have other options.</p>
<p>I got that email too. Bummmmmmmmmmmmmmmer.</p>
<p>I wish they would just give out concrete facts, like the exact number enrolled at this time.</p>
<p>They probably don’t give out concrete facts because they are still uncertain of their situation. Keep in mind that they have yet to get a truly accurate count of how many places they have in the class (Dartmouth leaves decisions regarding gap years to the last possible second–in july–whereas 99% of schools require that you indicate your decision when you send in a deposit). There may not be many taking a year off, but there will at least be a handful. </p>
<p>Also, they know that HYPS waitlist offers will draw at least a few students from their matriculating class. Most often, students who get into schools that are as selective as Dartmouth have also applied to Yale and Harvard and gotten waitlisted. They just don’t know how many. By their count now, they have about the right number (around 1080). That will change. How significantly? Nobody knows. </p>
<p>Personally, I’m really sick of the games elite colleges have gotten to play with high-achieving kids like us. I applied to 15 schools and got waitlisted at 6 (U of Chicago, Dartmouth, Cornell, Duke, Harvard, and Williams). I have no idea what criteria they could have used to select incoming students–I was competitive enough to make the waitlist at Harvard but I also got waitlisted at UChicago, which seems really weird. Hoping for Dartmouth, though. =D </p>
<p>And we can’t lose all hope yet, can we?</p>
<p>Does the email mean that they met their freshman class size or exceeded it as of now? Have they sent this message in previous years where they took kids off the waiting list? Does Dartmouth usually print an article online in their college newspaper stating current stats about the wait list? I know some schools already have done so.</p>
<p>No, I called the admissions yesterday and asked about their yield. They said that there “right where they want to be.” If they had oversubscribed, they would have told us and ended the waitlist. Instead, they’re using us to hedge their bets in case any students drop from the class. </p>
<p>Last year, their waitlist decisions didn’t come out until mid-may. I think it’s probable that a similar email went out last year.</p>
<p>[TheDartmouth.com</a> | College sees a decrease in its admissions yield](<a href=“http://thedartmouth.com/2009/05/11/news/admissions]TheDartmouth.com”>http://thedartmouth.com/2009/05/11/news/admissions)</p>
<p>According to this article, which was written on May 11, 50-60 students were going to be offered admission off the waitlist. It seems that if that many were going to be taken off the waitlist this year, that email would not have been sent out. Correct me if I’ve misinterpreted this, but it doesn’t look like the waitlist will be used nearly as extensively as it was last year.</p>
<p>They could, they could not. They just don’t know. Apparently, Yale is already making calls from their waitlist and, from what my GC said, the Harvard people plan to take some off too. Harvard just doesn’t start till a bit later. It basically all depends on what these schools do.</p>
<p>Seeing Princeton has already pulled from their waitlist and some of these being people who had enrolled at Dartmouth, I’d say the waitlist will be used even if it’s only for a couple of people.</p>
<p>when they say “at least three weeks” I’m hoping that means i still have three extra weeks to annoy the crap out of them with updates and post cards?</p>