<p>From <a href="http://www.haverford.edu/admissions/home.html%5B/url%5D:">http://www.haverford.edu/admissions/home.html:</a></p>
<p>"Regular Decision letters were mailed on March 18, 2005 and March 21, 2005. Financial aid decisions will be mailed on or about April 1, 2005"</p>
<p>So, sounds like many of the letters weren't even sent until yesterday.</p>
<p>Ohhh.. that makes a lot more sense! So that means I won't get my letter till tomorrow at the earliest, Thursday at the latest. And I'm going out of town Thursday morning and will not be back till Sunday... oh the torture!!!</p>
<p>I got waitlisted! Anyone else?</p>
<p>they're waitlisting everyone.. jeez what's going on</p>
<p>yeah...it seems like a lot of people are getting waitlisted, but i think the acceptance letters have yet to arrive. for those who don't know (if you weren't waitlisted), our letters said they waitlisted about 800 people and expect about 200 to remain on the list.</p>
<p>I have to echo that--- only about, what, three or four people have gotten in?! That's worrisome. Did Haverford have a sharp increase in apps this year or something?</p>
<p>Acceptances are already out I think because I was telling my friend that I got waitlisted and she told me someone in her school got in.</p>
<p>Aliasaholic, according to my waitlist letter, "With a record number of applications this year, the selection process was unusually difficult." But then, they probably say that every year. Another theory is that they had a higher yield last year than expected, so they had to cut back on the number of admitted students this year (and thus use the waitlist as much more of a safety net) - that was proposed by someone on this thread a few days ago I think. Perhaps there was just a surge of candidates that were more qualified than us? hehe...</p>
<p>Does anyone know how many people applied and how many were accepted? Did any of the acceptance letters say?</p>
<p>someone in my school got in but through early decision. i really don't think that acceptances are out yet.. i mean look at the ratio right here on this forum! and that's probably from some of THE most qualified candidates in the nation.. who else would look for this website haha</p>
<p>Hmmm... so does that mean they mailed out the WL/Rejects on Friday and acceptances yesterday? I mean, the admissions office website said they sent the letters out on Friday and yesterday</p>
<p>In comparison to its peer schools (like Wesleyan and Vassar and Bowdoin), Haverford has had a historically low yield, for whatever reason. </p>
<p>I might have said this already, but... Haverford may intentionally be waitlisting a lot of very qualified people. </p>
<p>I didn't hear today... and I live outside of Philly!</p>
<p>My brother was waitlisted yesterday... he accepted a spot.</p>
<p>Ugh, first Wash. U, then Haverford?!</p>
<p>I was waitlisted, if you couldn't tell by that comment. </p>
<p>SATI: 1560, SATII: 800,790,740. Rank 10/1241. ECs: lots of music ecs, volunteer stuff, tutoring/mentoring, teaching sunday school, etc.</p>
<p>This is ridiculous.</p>
<p>And they waitlisted 800 people?! And 200 of those will eventually get in? How many incoming freshman do they have anyway?</p>
<p>At least I have Amherst.</p>
<p>They didn't say 200 would get in. They said 200 would remain on the list, and then Haverford would choose from that. </p>
<p>dreamsicle: THAT IS CRAZY. My guess would be that either you wrote terrible essays (or a terrible honor code essay), you didn't show any interest, or you were "overqualified." Your stats are well above what Haverford usually accepts, and besides, if you got into Amherst, then you should have gotten into Haverford. If it weren't for this huge number of waitlisted kids, then I wouldn't be assuming that Haverford is practicing an aggressive yield strategy, but that is what it seems like.</p>
<p>I'm starting to get a little angry with Haverford. As I said before, I had no idea whether I'd get in, but I thought I had a decent chance. I figured getting WLed had something to do with not having shown much interest, and perhaps my 1st semester senior grades (GPA in 9-11 grade was like 3.97 UW, 1st sem this year it was like a 3.6 UW, but average it was still about a 3.93), but seeing people like dreamsicle get WLed too is just annoying. Clearly if they got into Amherst they had awesome recs and wrote great essays, so I don't understand. If they are waitlisting people like us just so that they can fill in their class with high numbers later, then I hope none of these really great students stay on the list - Haverford doesn't deserve it. dreamsicle, I don't know how much you like Amherst, but it's by far a better school than Haverford, in my opinion, and they obviously care more about you, so I'd tell Haverford to sh0ve it...
Hopefully (not for your sake, dreamsicle, but for Haverford's) we'll hear about worthy people getting acceptances this week, cause I'd be really disappointed if they keep rejecting/waitlisting well-qualified candidates...</p>
<p>This is my first post, I've been reading and learning so much from these boards since last summer. Hi to all. I'm reading this thread with great interest since my ds has applied to Haverford and has not yet received a letter. His stats are in the same ballpark as "dreamsicle". I'm posting because he applied to about 8 schools and not one notified us of missing paperwork. About 3 weeks ago, he received an email from Haverford stating that things were missing. We faxed them. A few days later, they said they still hadn't received them. The school faxed them again. Finally, by the 4th email to them, they acknowledged that his file was complete. I remember thinking at the time, this is odd......maybe they want to see how interested my ds really is in them......because if he wasn't, we certainly wouldn't have gone to all that trouble. Did any of you that have been WL'd have anything like that happen? Just curious.</p>
<p>dreamsicle, that's crazy ! 70reve4rotag .. by far better? that's kind of harsh, i mean you can get a great education at both schools. don't make the kids who get rejected at amherst but into haverford feel bad!!</p>
<p>According to Haverford's Common Data Set for 04-05 (or the current first yr class), they received 3,035 applications last yr...and 330 matriculated/enrolled. They waitlisted 831...of which 206 accepted a slot on the WL...and only 1 was admitted from the list.</p>
<p>Nada in the mail... again. You'd think I would have gotten the letter today, since I live in DC.... This is a bit frustrating.</p>